Do you mean to tell me you never play Microsoft Flight Simulator at your local pub? Art by Erick Ingraham from a December 1984 PC Connection ad. When I got my first job in technology journalism, my ...

Apologies for the continued self-indulgent excavation of my own work, but after indexing my TIME.com columns and preserving my tweets, I’m back with links to the 952 posts I wrote for my PC World blog ...

On March 7, 2007, I tweeted—though it wasn’t yet called that—for the first time. I remember feeling like I was late to the platform: If I understand how member ID codes work, I was the 817,268th ...

Okay, maybe "lost" is overstating things. Still, I tend to forget about most of the stuff I write the moment I'm done with it. So I certainly don't have vivid recollections of writing my weekly ...

DALL-E 3 gets most of the credit (or blame?) for this. It hardly seems possible that it's been nearly sixteen years since I pressed publish on my first Technologizer post. Back then, the iPhone had ...

Another computer magazine tycoon, Wayne Green (1922-2013), makes several cameos in David’s manuscript. When discussing IDG’s proposal that Apple fund the creation of Macworld, Steve Jobs brings up IDG ...

Consider this post a piece of bonus material for David Bunnell's book proposal about his career in tech publishing up to the early 1990s, which I posted yesterday. Another computer magazine tycoon, ...

Facebook’s “memories” feature recently reminded me of the tenth anniversary of a small personal milestone I hadn’t thought much about in recent years. The September 30, 2013 issue of TIME ...

Lately, however, I have been partial to declaring that PC World was born on November 29, 1982, the day it was announced at COMDEX. For one thing, it’s nice to narrow it down to a specific day. For ...

2023 author’s note: Over at Fast Company, you can read my new cover story on Satya Nadella and Microsoft—and more specifically, the company’s decades-long investment in AI, which is finally starting ...

2023 author’s note: With the future of Evernote seemingly in question, I have been reflecting on the product, which I’ve used for years and written about since the day it was announced in 2004. I was ...

The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you—assuming there is a newsstand near you. They’re the last print issues of these two venerable computer magazines ...