We’re near a lot of things you you probably visit, like Regal Cinemas and Gold’s Gym.

We’ll be planning an open house as we finish setting things up and organizing. For now, we’ve got everything we need to serve our customers at our new location!

Stop By and See Us!

If you stop by the store, you’ll notice that we are packing up!

Don’t worry. We’re not closing up shop.

As our lease expired and the owners of our current location make plans for the future of their property, we decided it was time to make some changes ourselves. So, we’ve decided to stop leasing to limit the chaos that comes from not being able to control our home.

With our new home, there will be some changes. We will now be in a business park, and have a smaller space. If you’ve been with us for a while, you know that our store front was much larger in the past. In our new office, there will no longer be a store front.

We still welcome you to bring your computers to the office, but we will not have inventory of items for sale.

We will also still offer classes in a new classroom on site.

As soon as some tidying up and painting is complete, we will begin moving operations. We’ll continue offering our services during the move, but there will be a few days that we will not be able to take walk-in customers.

“Twenty-five years ago, I started my business making web sites. I began providing hosting, e-commerce sites, and more as things took off. Ten years later, more businesses were asking for help with their networks and computers. So, I expanded to offer full service I.T. and quite my full-time job with the State of Maryland.

I started in a tiny one-room office across the street from my home. I quickly needed to expand to accommodate employees and more work. Since that tiny office, Digital Age Solution has moved when the location could not or would not meet our needs. I’m so excited to stop paying rent, and eliminate one more variable out of my control.”

Mike Kuster, Owner

Voice as a natural input

Natural computing experiences enable us to speak directly to our devices to accomplish tasks, without typing. We see potential for voice input to dramatically change how people interact with their devices, far beyond novelty experiences or entertainment.

One way we’ve done this in the April 2018 Update is with Dictation. It’s now easier than ever to take a note or write a paper, with just your voice. With your cursor in any text field either in Windows 10 or in an app, simply press Win+H and start talking. The improved Dictation feature in Windows 10 will capture your thoughts quickly and accurately so that brilliant idea you just riffed on with your colleagues or the speech you’re practicing for your best friend’s wedding isn’t lost forever.

With the April 2018 Update and Cortana enabled on your Windows 10 PC, you can manage your smart home right from your PC using just your voice³. For example, want to come home to a warm house from a long day at work? Just tap Cortana on your PC and say “Hey Cortana, set the living room thermostat to 72 degrees” to control your ecobee, Honeywell, Nest Learning thermostat and more⁴.

Of course, there are many more great new features in the April 2018 Update including simplified IT management tools for our enterprise customers, new ways to create with Photos, 3D and Windows Mixed Reality, new ways to keep you safer online and enhancements to your PC gaming experience.

The April 2018 Update will be available as a free download beginning Monday, April 30.

With all the time you’ll save, how will you use your precious time?

Focus Assist returns your focus

Today, most of us spend between 3-6 hours – each day – on screens. Much of this time is spent on social media, where the constant stream of distractions across our myriad of devices makes it hard to focus. In many ways, our attention is being hacked, pulling us into continuous scrolls of information, but distracting us from what matters most. This war on attention is real – in the workplace, the average amount of time people spend on any single event before being interrupted or switching tasks is about three minutes (outside of meetings). Since the average person needs about 23 minutes to regroup after being interrupted, we see our productivity and creativity diminished.

With the April 2018 Update we’re introducing Focus Assist to help you stay in the zone. Turn on Focus Assist whenever you want to get things done without distractions, like social media or other notifications. Or set it to turn on automatically at certain times during the day when you want focused time. When you finish, you receive a summary of what came through, whether notifications, emails or updates, while you were heads down. If you’re waiting on a specific call or email, choose people who you want to break through.

Timeline helps you easily find what matters to you across your devices

We all get the same 24 hours. And now, more than ever, it seems like it’s never enough. People feel more overwhelmed than ever before and pretty much all of us would love more time – not necessarily time to do more, but time to do what we love. At Microsoft, we want to help you do just that.

The proliferation of devices, combined with the explosion of information, has led to an influx of screen time. In fact, today, practically all free time goes toward screens. Your information is spread across multiple devices – making it increasingly harder to find your stuff. We’ve all had the experience of digging through your email or file folders for the document you know you wrote, but can’t find. Or looking for photos and videos that you know you’ve seen and love, but can no longer locate. Timeline can help you get back this wasted time.

With Timeline, your Windows 10 PC lets you go back in time up to 30 days to find your stuff, whether you were working on it earlier today, last week, or a few weeks ago. Because much of our activity is on the go, you can even pick up what you were doing if signed into your Microsoft account while using Microsoft Edge or Office 365 on your iOS or Android device when you return to your Windows 10 PC. Imagine looking at bathroom vanity options for that home remodel when you’re out and about on your phone, and then finishing that purchase when you’re back at your PC. Or working on a document on the bus during your commute and seamlessly picking it back up when you’re at your desk.