It was bound to happen. My PC is barely a year old and it’s run like a top from day one. But over the last week or so, I’ve been getting this faint whining from the box. About eight years ago, I heard something similar from my old Micron and it turned out that the rear fan was going bad. No problem. I paid five bucks for another one at a local parts...

Twenty-one spams. That’s how many I just deleted from my Junk Mail folder. That many spams doesn’t bother me so much because it used to be ten times that, and they all came to my In Box. Now, thanks to new and improved security in my e-mail client, almost all of the spam that is intended for my In Box gets deleted before I ever see it. The remainder...

Microsoft doesn’t always get it right.Shocking, I know. But take my word for it, a surprising number of the inventions and experiments that are devised within the company walls never see the light of day.When I first arrived at Microsoft, a seasoned veteran named Wendell pulled me aside and told me how group competition works at the company....