Author: Jim Szymanski

Hopefully, your children and grandchildren won’t be repeating this statement a few years from now. Everywhere you turn today, someone is trying to compel you to embrace the

If you are a pre-Windows 8 user who can’t imagine Windows “without” the Start Menu, or you have recently upgraded to Windows 8 and seem lost, I have

Sooner or later you are going to need to do one of the above on a Windows 8 machine, or maybe you want to upgrade an existing machine

I know this video has made the rounds but thought it was still worth posting. . Microsoft Portugal, with the help of an 11 year old, shows how

Coming from a world with 300 baud modems, I appreciate every technological speed improvement that comes along. Each time I have replaced a computer, PDA or phone, the

Despite the critics negative view of Windows 8, I have embraced the new OS. While Win8 is perfectly capable using a mouse, playing with my Surface RT the

The last machine in the house  (a Gateway Pentium Dual Core x64 running Vista) not running Windows 8 was starting to act up last week (again), so I

Anyone who visits MD regularly knows that I am a bit obsessive when it comes to battery usage/drain. I long ago gave up trying to conserve power and

There is not much I dislike about my new Surface RT from Microsoft. But one thing that has bugged me almost since the unboxing has been weak audio

….and while your at it, how about one for the Windows Phone Store as well. Windows 8 has only been out two weeks and I already have 23