A Microsoft store in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Microsoft announced on Friday that it will permanently close its Microsoft Store stores. Instead, it will focus on its online store at Microsoft.com, where customers can request support, sales, training, and more. Microsoft said members of its retail team will …
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To balance their systemic need for thinness with their customers’ need for something they can really type in, Apple is investigating a keyboard that can fully retract into a MacBook Pro cabinet. Apple has been careful not to say that the butterfly keyboard is gone, but it turns out to …
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Read More »Apple’s MacOS 11 Big Sur marks the end of OS X, not the Mac
The WWDC20 master note produced by Apple did not directly emphasize this, but the new macOS Big Sur to be released to the public this fall is officially “macOS 11”, marking the end of the “Mac OS X” brand twenty-year progression. But don’t worry, it’s not the end of the …
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