In a few weeks, Windows 11 will arrive. Should you upgrade to it? Let me answer with a question: "Should you stop hitting your head against the wall?" | Continue reading
A healthy workforce means a healthy company. That’s one of the underlying messages of last week’s executive order from President Biden pushing companies to get their employees vaccinated. | Continue reading
You’d better work on hanging on to your workers, or you may end up shutting your business doors. | Continue reading
Slack is fine for channel chats and Zoom is dandy for video, but for real business communications, you still can't beat email. That will never change. | Continue reading
Workaholism is seldom a virtue, whether you’re programming or writing articles. | Continue reading
Virtual reality meetings have yet to live up to their potential, but Facebook says its VR environment will improve on video calls for team collaboration. | Continue reading
When offices reopen to allow hybrid work situations, employees will need to book a workspace for days they’re in the office. Here’s how to choose the right desk hoteling software for your business. | Continue reading
Yes, Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC costs more than people expected, but take a closer look and you'll see it makes sense — in some cases. | Continue reading
With so many workers reluctant to return to the office after a year of working from home, it’s high time companies figure out how to get the most from all those employees toiling away outside the office. | Continue reading
With the Delta variant of COVID-19 on the rise, government agencies and businesses are starting to weigh in on how to keep workers safe. Get vaccinated. Get tested. Or stay home. Google jumped on board the vaccination train this week. | Continue reading
Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: Windows, Mobile, Apple/enterprise, Office and productivity suites, collaboration, web browsers and blockchain, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple and G … | Continue reading
It's finally here: A full Windows desktop-as-a-service is now ready to replace your Windows desktop on a PC. | Continue reading
With the arrival of Windows 11, and its once-a-year update cadence, Microsoft is effectively turning its back on its Windows-as-a-service model. | Continue reading
In a bid to give its Internet auction site a boost, eBay last week unveiled a deal to adopt Web technology from Microsoft Corp. Web sites and to use the software giant's .Net development tools. | Continue reading
It's all about security, and it's going to be a costly upgrade — because most of us will need to buy new PCs to make it work. | Continue reading
If you heard about Microsoft’s big announcement of Windows 11 and are wondering whether to upgrade, I have an answer. In a word: No. In two words: Hell no. | Continue reading
If you expect everything to return to “normal” with work soon, you really need to get up to speed. | Continue reading
In two weeks, Microsoft, plans to unveil the "next generation" of Windows. But isn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last generation of the ubiquitous OS? | Continue reading
Fujitsu has unveiled a 500GB Serial ATA disk drive that doesn't require a built-in fan for cooling, answering noise complaints of PC and set-top box users. | Continue reading
Google's Chrome OS is far, far more than just a cloud-based operating system and it's only getting more so as the years go by. | Continue reading
Tech crooks really are out to get you, but there are ways to defend your company that won't cost an arm and a leg. | Continue reading
Colonial Pipeline just rubbed our noses into the fact that ransomware is a growing threat. Fortunately, there are ways to keep it from happening to you and your business. | Continue reading
One tester found that Windows for ARM running on an M1 Mac via Parallels Desktop was the “fastest version of Windows” they’d ever used. | Continue reading
Google's once-pivotal program for exceptional yet affordable Android phones seems to be fading — and maybe for good reason. | Continue reading
The future of the desktop may be on the cloud, but that doesn't mean it's a great idea. | Continue reading
Everyone's been lecturing IT talent for years about how horrible texting numbers for authentication is. Now, due to some excellent work from Vice, it's clear the text situation is far worse than almost anyone thought. The entire telecom space surrounding the text infrastructure i … | Continue reading
You can yak all the time on Slack, Teams, or Google Chat — or get real work done with email. | Continue reading
The Firefox browser maker got a one-time financial boost in 2019 that masked a gloomy underlying trend: for the second year in a row, Mozilla's expenses outweighed revenue. | Continue reading
Apple has updated its iCloud for Windows application, hinting at the future introduction of support for Chrome. | Continue reading
The end of the long-time software-sharing repository underlines that personal computing isn't what it used to be, as we keep moving apps (and desktops) to the cloud. | Continue reading
It appears Microsoft wants to give the Windows interface a major overhaul in late 2021. No, for the love of God, no! | Continue reading
We round up the biggest technology industry mergers and acquisitions of the year so far | Continue reading
Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: Windows, Mobile, Apple/enterprise, Office and productivity suites, collaboration, web browsers and blockchain, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple and G … | Continue reading
Here comes Windows as a Desktop-as-a-Service: Microsoft Cloud PC. | Continue reading
Piling on big tech companies is the fashion of the day, but don't expect the US government to break up Google. | Continue reading
Okay, so Windows 10 updates have had issues, shall we say, for years. But, really, Microsoft, you're going to roll out the same kinds of problems for your services now, too? | Continue reading
The shiny new 20H2 Windows 10 feature update is almost here, but there’s no reason for you to be an unpaid beta tester. Here’s how to keep it off your system for now. | Continue reading
Apple must prove a business case to maintain enterprise deployment of Macs with Apple Silicon. | Continue reading
The agency took a step in the right direction in January, but it needs to demonstrate that it has truly abandoned the practices that unleashed WannaCry on the world. | Continue reading
Thinking of buying a new phone, just for high-speed mmWave 5G? Do yourself a favor: Don't. | Continue reading
In 1981, when the IBM PC was introduced, Bill Gates supposedly said that 640KB of memory "ought to be enough for anybody." The quote has followed him through the years, despite a lack of solid evidence that he actually said it. | Continue reading
"Hello! Here's an interesting new feature you'd almost certainly like to use. There's just one thing..." | Continue reading
Microsoft's first Android phone could be hugely significant, but plenty of people are bound to write it off quickly and miss the point. | Continue reading
Outlook, like Windows 10, has been plagued by one update problem after another. Come on Microsoft, can't you do better!? | Continue reading
The version of Outlook that runs on Windows PCs suddenly stopped working worldwide on Wednesday. The outage wasn’t caused by a bad patch. It wasn’t restored by an update. Microsoft isn’t saying much, but there’s a plausible explanation - and it’s disconcerting. | Continue reading
Blink and you might miss it, but Microsoft is little by little reshaping Google's mobile ecosystem for the better — and all signs suggest it's only getting started. | Continue reading
The company intentionally removed the “update deferral” options from the Win10 version 2004 Update Advanced options pane, ostensibly “to prevent confusion.” Riiiiight. But there’s good news: a newly documented Pro, Education and Enterprise Registry setting that circumvents the ve … | Continue reading
Founded in 1970, Xerox PARC -- now just PARC -- has been home to some of computing's biggest advances, including GUIs, bitmapped displays and Ethernet networking. | Continue reading