The Incredible Shrinking Home Office

The Incredible Shrinking Home Office

The home office is going through a startling evolution. Home office PC sales are at their lowest numbers in their history, thanks to the rise of tablet computers and smartphones, which offer unprecedented convenience, mobility, and power. You could even say the...
Taking My First Steps into the Cloud

Taking My First Steps into the Cloud

I’ve owned my new Microsoft Surface Pro for a little over a month now, and I would say I use it for equal amounts of fun and productivity—just as I figured I would. It’s a tremendously entertaining and responsive media device, but it’s also a powerful laptop...
Surface Pro Sniping

Surface Pro Sniping

For a couple months, I’ve had a TweetDeck column focused on Surface Pro tweets, and that column has seen a steady stream of curious consumers and anxious productivity workers, clamoring for more information about the new hybrid tablet/PC. You can imagine how that...
Surface Pro: Weighing the Pros and Cons

Surface Pro: Weighing the Pros and Cons

When Microsoft launched its Surface with Windows RT last fall, we were all pretty excited here in the Windows IT Pro offices. It was nice to see the company we write about come up with a tablet that would compete with the Apple iPad while offering an intriguing new...