The inherent irony of Chrome OS
Ah, Chrome OS. How far you’ve come. I found myself contemplating the state of Google’s Chromebook platform this week as I read over a new...
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All together now
It’s a Saturday in the early ’90s, Solaris 2 is less than a year old, and this pilot fish sysadmin at a company running it...
Microsoft points to October end-of-support for older Office apps accessing 365 services
Microsoft recently reminded customers that starting Oct. 13 the company will not support older versions of Office applications connecting to Office 365 and Microsoft 365...
Q&A: CBT Architects CIO sees a ‘hybrid’ remote-work plan as harder than WFH
Editor’s note: This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Adopting remote work company-wide was a tall order during the early days of...
Redefining productivity and compensation in an AI age
This week I ran into an interesting product that could substantially speed up writers who do a lot of repetitive work. It’s called ActiveWords, and...
Flashback Friday: Oh, did I say 30 DAYS?
This pilot fish gets an email from a user who can’t open the program used to track equipment calibration, so she takes the short walk...
Tim Cook defends Apple’s App Store business
Apple CEO Tim Cook will appear with leaders from Google, Amazon and Facebook for a Congressional anti-trust hearing today, which will be broadcast live on...
Apple CEO Tim Cook defends the App Store business
Apple CEO Tim Cook will appear today with leaders from Google, Amazon and Facebook for a Congressional anti-trust hearing, which will be broadcast live on...
We’ll fix this, inshallah
As more and more people start to work from home in response to the pandemic, this pilot fish tech consultant is mainly dealing with remote-connectivity...
At Microsoft Inspire, the new Edge browser took center stage
Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author. In the new Microsoft, Azure has – to a certain extent – taken over the center stage from...