Desktop 2025
The desktop is undergoing change, but what will it look like in five years? Here’s what I see in my somewhat cracked crystal ball.
Stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Sorry, Apple: For the education market, Chromebook is the clear winner
Apple started this fight with some old-school smack talk, but it only highlighted how it’s clinging to the old PC-centric model.
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With Windows Virtual Desktop, the bad old days are coming back
The PC — and yes, Microsoft — set us free. Now Microsoft is taking control.
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WTF, Microsoft?
For months Microsoft hid the fact that its Registry back-up feature no longer worked, while Windows 10 kept reporting that it was completing successfully.
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The end of the desktop?
Microsoft is introducing the Windows Virtual Desktop, and ushering in the end of the traditional PC desktop operating system.
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Don’t waste your money on Office 2019 (says Microsoft)
Office 2019 has been out just a few months, so naturally Microsoft has a big marketing push urging you to … NOT buy it?
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5G or faux G?
Forget all those stories of 20 Gbps speeds and 1 millisecond latency. 5G will never deliver performance like that — and anyway its time is still years away for most of us most of the time.
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Microsoft tries to take on the Chromebook once more
Will the third time be the charm, or will Windows Lite join Windows 10 S and Windows RT as failed Windows variations?
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What the heck is it with Windows updates?
Lately, it’s been difficult to update Windows systems without running into some showstopping bugs. WTH is going on?
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Is Microsoft already killing off Windows 7?
It sure looks like it’s regretting promising 18 more months of support for Windows 10’s biggest competitor.
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Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G
There’s a host of reasons why we won’t see 5G roll out in production anytime soon.
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iOS 11 is Apple’s Vista
How can the iPhone and iPad operating system keep going so wrong?
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Why Apple is not as good as its bottom line
Apple’s quarterly report may look golden, but there are fundamental problems behind its billions in profit.
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Windows 10 S comes to an undignified — but not unexpected — end
Well, that didn’t take long. While Microsoft claims that Windows 10 S is now a Windows 10 “mode,” the truth is that it has floundered.
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Will Apple finally pay a price for keeping secrets?
At first I thought Apple would get away with deliberately slowing down its older iPhones when their batteries aged. But maybe I was wrong.
