Replies

I’m not sure of the value of this app, except for bringing together all my recently used documents across most of my applications. I say “most,” because, while it shows all my applications for Office 365 ProPlus, my Project and Visio applications are not visible. I’ve left Microsoft my “feedback” [what the h*** ever happened to the word “opinion”] on the omission.

Thank you though for letting me know about it and giving me the chance to explore it.

I have had a hard drive die on me even on a short hop from Joburg to Cape Town even though my laptop was with me in the cabin. I think it was because of a hard landing: mine was the only bag in that compartment (very early and nearly empty flight), and i could hear it slide from one end to the other as the pilots braked hard after bouncing. Dell replaced the drive within 24 hours, fortunately. I didn’t even care that they kept the old one (i use BitLocker with 256-bit encryption and TPM 2.0).

But for the trip i’m about to take tonight i listened to another recent post from Woody on this forum about the best PC to get — a Chromebook. (I realize there was a learned rebuttal to that pointed answer.) It set me back $349, has a large screen (so i can RemotePC to my machines back in New York and not change my 1920×1080  default view), and a cheap but serviceable eMMC drive. (Yeah, i know: below SSD standard.) I’ve been testing it for a few days, accessing everything from Dropbox to my Office 365 account to all the Google Suite tools my consulting comrades use. If anything, it has demonstrated to me just how much i have already migrated to cloud computing, and i’m only being stubborn about using, for example, Microsoft applications from the Windows 10 hard drive.

Thank you, Woody, for that.

4 users thanked author for this post.

rc primak, lurks about, flackcatcher, BobbyB