Newsletter Archives
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Lunch with Brian
EDITORIAL
By Will Fastie
Brian Livingston was on the East Coast a few weeks ago and took the opportunity to make a side trip to Baltimore.
Brian called in advance to set up the meeting, saying he preferred to meet the people he was working with face to face. He graciously paid his own way, and we had a nice afternoon.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.06.0, 2023-02-06).
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Welcome to our twentieth year
ISSUE 20.02 • 2023-01-09 FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Susan Bradley
Time flies.
It seems like only yesterday. Out of the blue, I got an email from Brian Livingston, asking to meet with him while I was in Seattle attending a Microsoft event. Over dinner, he explained that he wanted me to write a column in the Windows Secrets Newsletter that would track issues with Microsoft patches and analyze their impact on PCs and their users.
It was the dawn of “The Patch Lady.”
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.02.0, 2023-01-09).
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The Windows Start menu: Trials and tribulations
WINDOWS
By Lance Whitney
Don’t get me started: Windows 11 saddles us with yet another major change to the always vital but never quite right Start menu.
Another version of Windows, another version of the Start menu. With Windows 11, Microsoft has unveiled its most dramatic change in years to a feature that’s always been a core part of Windows. Instead of the traditional vertical list of all the apps installed on your PC, we get a sparse, boxy window with links only to pinned and recommended apps. Getting to all your apps requires an additional step.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.35.0 (2021-09-13).