Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.
The U.S. government reportedly pays Geek Squad technicians to dig through your PC for files to give to the FBI.
Intel’s new Kaby Lake processors are pretty much even with the last generation of chips.
Anti-malware vendor PC Pitstop claims Malwarebytes disabled its PC Matic antivirus product on customers’ machines—breaking a rule of security.
Glyde and other computer equipment resellers are convenient, but they have their risks.
After two and a half decades, browsers should be solid. Instead, they are like beta software.
2016 was a pretty good year for Microsoft—only a few hiccups, including the pushiness to upgrade to Windows 10.
Andy Patrizio offers his tech predictions for 2017 and looks back at how well he did at predicting what would happen in 2016.
ICQ, the original instant messenger, could have been great. Instead, AOL bought it.
With iOS 10, Apple removed the Trash All button in Apple Mail--Apple’s email app--and replaced it with something totally convoluted.
Wipe that smug look off your face, Apple owners, Microsoft products are a lot safer.
Since when does Microsoft spread FUD against its own products? Apparently, now.
Following the controversial resignation of interim CEO Ellen Pao, Reddit's new management under CEO Steve Huffman is determined to make Redditors act like adults. That's a tall order.
On the spur of the moment, I installed the Windows 10 preview. After many trials and tribulations, I eventually went back to Windows 7.
An enterprise version of Windows 10 designed for secure deployments will not come with Microsoft's Edge browser in order to avoid the browser serving as a attack vector.
Inventory not included, Friday will be your last chance to get Windows 7 pre-installed.
A Microsoft report shows that cybercriminals are shifting their phishing efforts to social media and mobile devices.
Bugs are expected, but this week Apple saw a swarm of them.
Some fixes and improvements are introduced, and the company offers an update on initial feedback.
Docker has up to now been only on Azure and Linux.
Years after exposing a company in chaos, Vanity Fair followed up with Microsoft, projecting a strange situation among the company's founder and its new CEO and providing details on its controversy of the past.
Microsoft is getting a lot of feedback from the more than 1 million users who have tried out WIndows 10, and the research suggests these users are making full use of the new OS.
Word hit last week that the beta for Winodws 10 had a keylogger built in and the web went nuts. Understandable, but also wrong.
The real question on my mind is whether Windows 10 will finally address a problem that has plagued pretty much every Windows OS since at least 95: the decay of the system over time. As you add and remove apps, as Windows writes more and more temporar....
Video game technology is used to create realistic 3D battle space maps for the military.
Satya Nadella continues to shake things up and surprise at the same time, shutting down a research lab and the legendary Trustworthy Computing Group.
The Home Depot and Target breaches reportedly could have been avoided by upgrading to Windows 7 for Embedded Systems.
Even when adjusting the tests to account for add-ons and extensions, Pale Moon still failed to outperform Firefox in my tests..
The Windows 9 public preview coming at the end of the month is going to ask for feedback almost to the point of annoyance.
The project is supposed to speed up the browser. Instead, it's slowing it down.
The maker of the instant camera is now lining up behind Microsoft in the smartphone wars.
Getty Images claims the Bing Image Widget is stealing its images.
The author of this unofficial Windows XP service pack probably means well, but there's a reason we use trusted sources.
The fast-rising Chinese handset maker is sticking with Android.
Manufacturers threaten to slow down production in the gap between Windows 7 and 9.
Clones and ripoffs of legit software abound in a store that looks like a poorly maintained Wal-Mart.
Users help Microsoft track down why the Surface 3 tablet would overheat and make a lot of noise.
Company claims 5,000 companies sign up for Google Apps every day, and thousands switch from Microsoft.
Samsung killed the Z smartphone based on the Tizen OS. Is the entire Tizen OS doomed?
Gartner warns IT to think about upgrade problems down the road.
I'm fed up with both Verzion and my Samsung Windows Phone, so come October I'm lining up for an iPhone 6 on AT&T's network, even if it costs me an extra early termination fee.
New rumors claims PC-based Cortana is going to do more on Windows 9, or 'Threshold,' than its smartphone cousin.
The ex-CEO who returned as interim CEO has been made permanent. This sounds familiar. Can history repeat?
New phones for some, no updates for others. No wonder Windows Phone is at 3% market share.
Samsung is delaying the release of the Samsung Z because it wanted time to "further enhance [the] Tizen ecosystem" before releasing it. Translation: the OS has no apps.
The mighty Wzor is whiffing it lately, so I don't buy this latest report.
Microsoft announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington D.C., that in the past 18 months, 785 enterprise customers that the company had lost to Google's offerings have since returned.
Bloomberg says Microsoft’s quality assurance team might be the target of cuts, but that borders on the unthinkable.
Windows Phone 8.1, the revision to Microsoft's mobile OS that has taken longer to manifest than Windows 8.1, might finally show up this week or next, along with its first update.
Any concerns that Nadella would continue down Ballmer's path should be set aside now.
There's a difference between mainstream and extended support, however.
Sponsored Links