Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.
Can they squeeze out the bugs in six months?
Three zero-days in six weeks make Steve Jobs look even more prescient about the state of Flash.
Server 2016 will continue the move toward cloud architectures that Microsoft began with Server 2012.
Former Opera exec offers up a Chrome-based browser with some power-user features.
Three major design issues prompted an IBM developer to warn enterprises to avoid it.
Service is supposed to offer end-to-end encryption but the site's track record is spotty.
Even as Microsoft pushes Office 365, it will keep the classic product the same.
Its cloud business is now half the size of Salesforce, and the gap is closing quickly.
Some see bad signs in Microsoft's changes to its security reporting processes.
So long as you have a service contract, you need not worry about your work PC.
The OS enters a formal beta test phase for the masses to test it out.
After Intuit turned what had been a standard feature for the Deluxe version into costly add-on, H&R Block moved in and offered its jilted customers a free alternative.
The latest stats from Net Applications would indicate that, but it's not the full story.
They lost the smartphone wars, but the two also-rans have a new battlefield – the TV.
You can't play Angry Birds on it, but you won't have to charge it for a month, either.
More people are testing the future OS than any previous version, and the bug fixes are piling up.
This warning has been around for years and hasn't changed, which means management isn't getting the message.
If I am right, this will be a tough year for tech and everyone else.
European publications claim Microsoft could go after the ad-blocking service, but without citing sources.
The developer API will be shut down next year. How long does the app have?
People can now make video calls between the two clients, rather than having to use the same one.
A new build, a consumer version, and Cortana are all planned for the start of the year.
Advocates cite ease of use, but the celebrity nude hack may have also played a part.
Do your holiday shopping from your phone, if your friends and family want Microsoft products.
Savings have been anecdotal for a while, but now Gartner is measuring real dollar savings.
Once again, science fiction predicts the future, as spooky robots will patrol the campus.
The disclosure of a two-decade-old bug in Windows exposes the realities about software development.
Plus, Microsoft makes Visual Studio free for small teams.
IT rejected Windows 8 a lot more harshly than consumers. Will these new features placate them?
No one was sure how Michael Dell's risky move would work out. Turns out, it's working out pretty well.
A lawyer actually read the privacy policy that came with his new smart TV, and he's warning people about the amount of information these smart devices can collect.
Redesigned chip will be cooler, allowing for a thinner design.
Inventory not included, Friday will be your last chance to get Windows 7 pre-installed.
A Microsoft report shows that cybercriminals are shifting their phishing efforts to social media and mobile devices.
Bugs are expected, but this week Apple saw a swarm of them.
Some fixes and improvements are introduced, and the company offers an update on initial feedback.
Docker has up to now been only on Azure and Linux.
Years after exposing a company in chaos, Vanity Fair followed up with Microsoft, projecting a strange situation among the company's founder and its new CEO and providing details on its controversy of the past.
Microsoft is getting a lot of feedback from the more than 1 million users who have tried out WIndows 10, and the research suggests these users are making full use of the new OS.
Word hit last week that the beta for Winodws 10 had a keylogger built in and the web went nuts. Understandable, but also wrong.
The real question on my mind is whether Windows 10 will finally address a problem that has plagued pretty much every Windows OS since at least 95: the decay of the system over time. As you add and remove apps, as Windows writes more and more temporar....
Video game technology is used to create realistic 3D battle space maps for the military.
Satya Nadella continues to shake things up and surprise at the same time, shutting down a research lab and the legendary Trustworthy Computing Group.
The Home Depot and Target breaches reportedly could have been avoided by upgrading to Windows 7 for Embedded Systems.
Even when adjusting the tests to account for add-ons and extensions, Pale Moon still failed to outperform Firefox in my tests..
The Windows 9 public preview coming at the end of the month is going to ask for feedback almost to the point of annoyance.
The project is supposed to speed up the browser. Instead, it's slowing it down.
The maker of the instant camera is now lining up behind Microsoft in the smartphone wars.
Getty Images claims the Bing Image Widget is stealing its images.
The author of this unofficial Windows XP service pack probably means well, but there's a reason we use trusted sources.
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