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In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off. Do you mean to tell me you never play Microsoft Flight ...
14 Comments For This Post FSX Says: May 1st, 2010 at 5:42 am I think #11 was actually built; I have one if I remember correctly. Anon Says: May 1st, 2010 at 7:25 am The slideshow layout is complete ...
It’s not love, war, or baseball. But over the years some memorable things have been said about technology. Some have been memorably eloquent; others are unforgettably shortsighted, wrongheaded, or ...
Once upon a time, a garden-variety computer was the size of a room. Then minicomputers came along–the “mini” indicating that they took up no more space than a good-sized refrigerator. Next came ...
In a small way, this is a significant post: It’s the first one in which I’m going to refer to Windows Vista in the past tense. Which might be premature and/or unreasonable–Windows 7 won’t reach ...
Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0 on November 20th, 1985. Twenty-five years and two days later, it’s not just hard to remember an era in which Windows wasn’t everywhere–it’s also easy to forget that it ...
Here’s the second half of Jay Greene’s story on Microsoft’s two-screen Courier tablet, and why it never saw the light of day except as a spellbinding concept video.
Remember the moral outrage over Apple’s decision to turn the iPad’s physical orientation lock switch into a volume control? It paid off.