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Are you aware that unused online accounts are at risk of being hijacked by hackers who can then use them to do malicious things in your name?
That’s one of the reasons why I wrote this post.
Unused accounts also unnecessarily consume a portion of the service provider’s resources that could be used by other accounts.
As you probably know, Microsoft eventually stops supporting older versions of their software, and that always leaves the users of those abandoned products with a serious decision to make.
Well, that time will soon arrive for millions of users of Microsoft Office 2010.
When Microsoft first released Windows 10 it included an integrated digital assistant called Cortana.
They desperately wanted Cortana to become a strong competitor to Apple’s Siri, and to that end they quickly released a Cortana mobile app for iOS and Android devices.
Well, as they say, things didn’t quite go as planned because Cortana never really took off in the non-Windows world.
Many of the posts I publish on this blog are warnings about scams and hoaxes that happen to be making the rounds at the time.
Well, this post is sort of the opposite of those “Scam Alert” posts.
I’ve had several people message me to ask whether the “Time to Shift” notices from Microsoft are real or if they’re a hoax.
If you haven’t seen one of these notices yet, you surely will before long. The wording can vary slightly, but they typically read something like this: [Read more…]
Question from Dolly F.: I bought a Surface Pro 4 back in December and I recently started noticing a very faint, but irritating screen flicker.
I’ve tried changing pretty much all the available screen settings and installed all the latest updates but I just can’t get the flickering to stop.
This is absolutely driving me up the wall!
If you can tell me how to get this to stop you’ll be my hero lol. Thanks for your help in advance. Love your site by the way.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]