September - 2020

This blog is about technology past, present, and future. It features commentary, reviews, posts on tech history, and tech book reviews.

Classic Tech Support Video

Not sure why I thought of this today, but it’s a classic. Since some monks practiced canon law, I suppose they were lawyers in their own...

What Laid M365 Low?

Microsoft experienced an extended world-wide 365 outage yesterday which appears to have been caused by some bad code which,...

Kids Do over $5,000 Worth of IT Support for their Parents–What Could Go Wrong…

The Register reports on a UK survey that purports to establish that kids perform more than $5,000 per-year in IT services helping their...

Death Taxes and Annual Microsoft Payments–New Exchange Comes with Yearly Strings

For those who want (or need) to keep Exchange on-premise Microsoft recently announced that there would be a new version of Exchange...

Handheld or Handgrenade?

Actually, the iPhone of its day. This is a Curta mechanical calculator developed by Curt Herzstark in Vienna, Austria. It fit easily in...

Teams to Get Breakout Rooms

Microsoft announced at Ignite today that Teams would be getting breakout rooms, a feature longed for by Teams users and already in...

For The Longest Time (In Quarantine)

This is really fun and an amazing technical accomplishment.

Microsoft Introduces Programmatic Access to Teams Functionality

According to this article, Microsoft has introduced a set of Azure services that expose the functionality of Teams using a combination of...

Google’s Smart Spreadsheet App

Google’s Area 120 internal incubator has recently released a competitor to the various cloud spreadsheet/database combo applications that...