by Mike | Oct 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are some among us who actually remember a world without Windows. Microsoft Windows was announced to the world by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983, as a graphical user interface for MS-DOS. Remember MS-DOS? If not, ask someone who has hands-on experience with it....
by Mike | Sep 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Computers aren’t just meant to process information. They’re built to share information. Where there are even one or two computers in your office, you have a network. Even a desktop computer connected to a printer is a network. Network security enters the...
by Mike | Aug 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
When computer experts — and increasingly, ordinary computer users — talk about the “cloud,” they’re not talking about the scientifically-described “visible mass of minute liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or particles suspended in...
by Mike | Jul 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
A friend tells you they’ve moved to the cloud. You ask if they’re “okay.” Outside the context of computers, your friend’s statement sounds stranger than a sudden move to the Mohave Desert. But in conversations about computing, “the...
by Mike | Jun 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Malware (“malicious software”) is software that makes life hard. It’s purpose: to damage or disable computers and computer systems. Malware comes in a variety of types, with names that are often pretty sinister-sounding, if not downright nasty:...