Rob Enderle

Some time ago, Microsoft and Qualcomm announced the Always Connected PC, which was based on Qualcomm Snapdragon processor technology. This platform shifted the value proposition for the laptop computers that followed this announcement from system performance to network performance. The first systems worked, but they took a significant performance hit—more than most users were prepared […]

I attended an updated briefing from Lenovo this week on their education offerings, particularly those offered through their LanSchool acquisition. This acquisition and related service have been instrumental in getting schools to pivot to homeschooling, and what makes the difference is that it is a service for teachers designed by teachers. The teacher focus makes […]

This week I got an update from Lenovo (I’m on their advisory board), and the company appears to be making a significant pivot to its operations as it adjusts to the new normal. I can’t yet speak to those changes, but I can talk about the massive study they did that is driving them. They […]

One of the problems that the Microsoft Surface line was designed to correct was the gap between what Microsoft thought should be done with hardware and what the OEMs produced. Whether we are talking PCs, smartphones or any product that is primarily based on a supplier’s technology, the vision of the supplier and what results […]

Until we get 21-inch notebooks, the 17-inch form factor is what I’m recommending for people who work from home. Working from home is the new normal for an increasing number of us, and technology firms—most recently including Twitter—are moving to leave most of their staff at home even after we eventually get (if we ultimately […]

Most laptops follow one of three paths: They are either a traditional clamshell laptop, a laptop where the screen folds all the way over to create a heavy tablet that folks don’t use, or a laptop with a removable keyboard that turns it into a tablet that few use in that manner. The Surface Book […]

HP just updated and improved what is arguably its best laptop and a showcase for the company. This showcase offering is the Elite Dragonfly, and I’ve been following this product since it was first created. Unlike most products where it seems like finance has more to say about the design than users, the Dragonfly started […]

HP Inc. should likely go down in history as the largest startup ever created when it spun out of the combined Hewlett-Packard company in 2015. It was set up to fail with both declining businesses and most of the debt. But that didn’t slow the executive team down; on the contrary, circumstances seemed to light […]

The editor in Microsoft Word just got a huge boost (a lot of things in Microsoft 365 are getting significant enhancements), but I tend to depend on Grammarly as the premier editing tool for those of us who write for a living. Given that I am using both editors in sequence, first launching the Microsoft […]

It has been awhile since we talked about browsers. But browsers have an impressive history. Back in the ’90s, Netscape launched its Navigator product and changed the world. Microsoft responded, made some similar mistakes, and then lost the market to Google. But Microsoft wasn’t done yet and, with new leadership, rethought its approach: pivoting from […]