The “save” icon for plenty of modern computer programs, including Microsoft Office, still looks like a floppy disk, despite the fact that these have been effectively obsolete for well over a ...

Interestingly, floppy disks have been deemed problematic as far back as three decades ago. In 1995, the FAA's Office of Aviation Medicine submitted an 82-page field study report (PDF) following an ...

Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...

Japan won its ‘war’ on floppy disks, but its love of archaic tech lingers. ... “We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!” A document released by his office confirmed the triumph.

In Tsuwano, the town whose accounting department upgraded from floppy disks last year, the office fax machine is still often the fastest way to send information, Mr. Koto, the town official, said.

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives.

Despite its reputation for innovative high-tech gadgetry, Japan is notorious for clinging to outmoded technology through its office culture. Floppy disks - so-called because the original products ...

Japan finally gives up on 1.44MB floppy disk drives, 50 years after they went on sale — but there's no sign of Microsoft removing the iconic 'Save' floppy icon from Office just yet Craig Hale ...

German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, ... Augen geradeaus! spotted a tender for service published June 21 by Germany's Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology, ...

Japan wins 2-year “war on floppy disks,” kills regulations requiring old tech ... has made his distaste for floppy disks and other old office tech, like fax machines, quite public.

Interestingly, floppy disks have been deemed problematic as far back as three decades ago. In 1995, the FAA's Office of Aviation Medicine submitted an 82-page field study report (PDF) following an ...

Floppy disks, once the pinnacle of portable data storage, have been obsolete for decades. When I first began writing about hardware and software for PC Home magazine in the UK, I used to hand my ...