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Stop using DOC: Your old Word files are fragile, risky, and slow

Legacy DOC files risk corruption, hide malware, and slow modern collaboration—DOCX solves all three with modular XML design.
AOL

The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Your old solid state drive (SSD) has a lot of files on it that you probably don't want ending up in a ...
The New York Times

How to Deal With That Drawer Full of Old Gadgets

This month, resolve to revive or relinquish those old music players and point-and-shoot cameras — and retrieve any files trapped on the devices. By J. D. Biersdorfer J. D. Biersdorfer writes the ...