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Every year at this short stretch of time between Christmas and the beginning of the new year, it’s natural to reflect upon the year that is drawing to a close and the new year which has yet to begin. We look back some of us with good memories, happy memories, others with bad memories, sad memories, and most of us with a little of each of those.<\/p>\n
And it’s natural too, to look ahead with hope and a little trepidation. The new year will no doubt present opportunities and challenges and victories and defeats. Whatever will be will be, and the new year will bring what it will. But we choose to look forward to the new year with great hope and with great resolve to continue to do our best for you in new year.<\/p>\n
In 2017, we will begin our 19th\u00a0year with the little company we call “Cloudeight”. A company that we started as a dream back in 1998. \u00a0And we too look back with mixed memories at the year that is swiftly coming to an end.<\/p>\n
The Internet is a very different place now than it was in 1998; 19 years in computer terms is like a century in real-world terms. \u00a0And so we all struggle to keep up with the changes that come at us from everywhere.<\/p>\n
The trend now is for quick and easy. In-depth articles have been replaced with glitzy headlines and short articles of little substance, written more to “go viral” than to teach and explore. The old generation of Internet users is being replaced by a new generation of Internet users who live in a disposable world of quick free apps and the instant, free, sometimes insubstantial world of social media.<\/p>\n
More people access the Internet with phones and tablets than with PCs. When we started back in 1998, \u00a099% of those who accessed the Internet, did so with a Windows PC. Now, Windows users share the Internet with Android and Apple users.<\/p>\n
Without the support and help and friendship of those of you who subscribe to our newsletters, we would have long since joined those Web sites and companies who, like us, were born in the early days of the Internet, but who\u00a0didn’t survive.<\/p>\n
We are aware that our survival and our success depends on you. It depends on giving you, our friends and subscribers, what you want. Most of you are Windows users, but more and more of you are using Android & Apple tablets and phones to access the Internet. We will continue focusing on Windows, But we hope to start adding tips and tricks for Android and Apple devices too \u00a0– and we’ll be asking you to share your favorite Android and Apple tips with us so we can share them with others.<\/p>\n
And we believe that 2017 will bring about big changes in Windows – beginning with what is being called the Creators Edition due out during the first quarter of 2017. We’ll be covering those changes and letting you know what to expect.<\/p>\n
The Internet world is full of the catchy\u00a0and superficial. It’s full of free disposable apps – useful and useless. It’s a world of instant communication and instant relationships. A world where paragraphs have been replaced by 143-character “tweets”.<\/p>\n
Our mission is, foremost, to give you what you want, butnever sell you out. We will strive to tell you truth and warn you of the dangers both new and old that you’ll face every day on the Internet. But, we’ll try to keep you safe without frightening you or using yellow journalism to scare people into clicking headlines like so many others do. We’ll try to focus on Windows tips and tricks that will make you a better, smarter and safer computer user.<\/p>\n
We’ll continue to recommend to you only products that we both use and believe in. And help you save money by avoiding the many pitfalls of buying software based on fake reviews and false claims.<\/p>\n
The complete commercialization of the Internet is here whether we like it or not. And though the Internet is vastly different than it was when we started Cloudeight, we remain committed to providing you with information, products and services you can trust and believe in.<\/p>\n
We promise you that we will continue to provide information that\u00a0you\u00a0find valuable and useful, rather than on empty, catchy, sensationalistic headlines written solely to ricochet around social media.<\/p>\n
We believe that if we continue to be a steady, reliable, source of information, products and services you can believe in and trust, you will continue to honor us with your friendship and your support and we’ll will survive in this brave new world of the “new” Internet.<\/p>\n
Thank you very much for making it possible for our little business to beat the odds and proper in this brave new world. We hope we will once again earn your trust and friendship in the new year ahead.<\/p>\n
May the new year bring you and those you love happiness and good health. And may all your dreams come true.<\/p>\n
Again, thank you all for your friendship and support.<\/p>\n
Happy New Year!<\/p>\n
Darcy & TC
\nDecember 26, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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