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There has been lots of chatter of late about Microsoft thinking about potentially doing away with passwords moving forward. It appears as though that this will eventually be another case of where there is smoke there is fire. Passwords have long had the distinct advantage of keeping intruders locked out of a user account. You […]

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If you thought the homepage of our website looked too dull to be desirable, let us first point you toward Google’s search results, where for decades you have gotten nothing but links and descriptions for the sake of optimal user experience and performance. We have been criticized in the past by Google volunteer workers, among […]

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Not that Microsoft would be too concerned about it, but the South Korean government is allegedly planning to ditch Microsoft Windows and make the switch to Linux operating systems for their computers. The change will begin when Windows 7 support from Microsoft is officially up, which is happening this coming January. It’s likely to be […]

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Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have been under a lot of scrutiny in recent times for tracking too much of users’ data, and apparently, it’s so bad that people need to go looking for alternatives like DuckDuckGo for instance. It has come to light that now there is a section of each person’s Gmail […]

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Microsoft has released a patch for Windows XP to fight a dangerous worm vulnerability on Remote Desktop Services. Microsoft likely considered this an important patch because Remote Desktop Services is a feature related to administrators taking control of other computer’s, and thus it involved administrator permissions. Microsoft discontinued support for Windows XP back in 2014. […]

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It wasn’t long ago that Microsoft was considering doing away with the much beloved Microsoft paint app altogether. However, thanks to user feedback, Microsoft has decided to keep Paint living on, at least for now. We certainly hope Paint continues to stay in Windows 10 for a while yet because there are some things that […]

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Microsoft PowerToys has been rebooted and is now an open source project available on GitHub. Microsoft PowerToys is a play on the Windows 95 era PowerTools project. The new PowerToys project is designed to be a set of utilities for power users to customize their Windows 10 experience for higher productivity. As the Windows operating […]

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Microsoft has introduced a new command line app, called Windows Terminal, you can use instead of Windows PowerShell and the Command Prompt application. Windows Terminal will also offer Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) support as well. For a while now Microsoft has been welcoming user feedback and have shown they’re more interested in following what […]

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The search field you get in Windows’ taskbar is about locating information that’s already on your PC: opening files, finding apps instead of navigating around Windows, and so forth. Microsoft is now expanding on that experience by personalizing it to include direct access to your contacts and data you would expect to find from your […]

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The Windows 10 WinRT API pack preview is now available to download from NuGet, according to Microsoft. NuGet is the name given to the package management platform of the .NET framework. You can find the preview available as NuGet packages, which is designed to make it simpler to add new Windows functionality to WPF applications. […]

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Most Dell computers, including the popular XPS 13 and 15 ranges, come with a preinstalled Dell Support Assist application. Support Assist offers users a simple way of keeping the computer up to date with drivers, BIOS updates, and other fixes that are automatically taken care of by Dell. Many users like to remove what they […]

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Extensions are a large part of what makes a web browser’s world go around. In fact, extensions are generally a large part of what makes development these days on most platforms go around. Gone are the days when you were expected to add code to get development on the Web to function. But with browsers, […]

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When Microsoft acquired GitHub, it probably didn’t take into account that perhaps one day it will need to pay ransom fees in addition to the $7.5 million acquisition, but that’s apparently how at least some attackers feel about the situation. GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket are three websites that have recently been targeted by ransomware attackers. […]

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It’s been a long time since we’ve had a 17-inch laptop in the XPS family. The last time the 17-inch version was released, its design was far from what we consider to be modern today, and if you’re anything like me, you’d probably pass on it for something else. But 17-inch laptops are a size […]

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Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc took to the Windows blog to announce the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18885 (20H1). This particular update includes changes to the Your Phone app, the expansion of dictation support to include more countries, a new Feedback Hub version, narrator improvements, loads of general changes, and a list […]

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If you are following the day’s announcements, you’ll have noticed that in New York today we revealed the first device in the Surface Hub 2 family, the Surface Hub 2S.The Surface Hub 2S is an all-in-one collaboration device that’s built for teamwork – delivering a digital meetings platform, whiteboard, and Windows 10 computing experience, all […]

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Today we joined Steelcase in New York to share our vision for empowering teams and unveiled new details about the Surface Hub 2S product line, introducing the new 85-inch screen size and bringing unprecedented, battery-enabled mobility to the 50-inch collaboration device. Our best ideas come from when we’re working as a team – focused, engaged, […]

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NVIDIA has launched the GeForce GTX 1650, offering games at 60 frames per second. Many people bought laptops last year that were equipped with the GTX 1080 and felt disappointed when they saw that this year NVIDIA has made available the GTX 2080 in some laptops. While that might seem like a huge jump up […]

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Amazon Key for Garage is available as of today. Key for Garage is the name of Amazon’s new feature that allows for Amazon Prime members to get deliveries in their garage, so no packages need to be left unattended at the front door. To receive the deliveries you’ll need to have the Key Smart Garage […]

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We’ve bought the Dell XPS 13 and XPS 15 from last year, and we loved the fact that on both laptops the webcam was positioned at the bottom of the screen. While the DELL XPS 13’s webcam didn’t look great with the white background, you were happy to accept its looks knowing that it was […]

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Back in December, we announced our intention to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers, and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers. Now we’re ready to show you what we’ve been working on, and invite you to come […]

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Recently, the PowerShell Team shipped the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell Core 6.2. Since that release, we’ve already begun work on the next iteration! We’re calling the next release PowerShell 7, the reasons for which will be explained in this blog post. Why 7 and not 6.3? PowerShell Core usage has grown significantly in the last […]

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Note This release also contains updates for Microsoft HoloLens (OS Build 17763.379) released March 12, 2019. Microsoft will release an update directly to the Windows Update Client to improve Windows Update reliability on Microsoft HoloLens that have not updated to this most recent OS Build. Improvements and fixes This update includes quality improvements. No new […]

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Back in December, we announced our intention to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers, and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers. Now we’re ready to show you what we’ve been working on, and invite you to come […]

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As promised, we have rolled out the change to use Skype for Business desktop app on Mac as our web-downloadable meetings client instead of Skype Meetings App (SMA)! The change applies to meetings that are hosted on Skype for Business Online or on Skype for Business Server 2015 that is configured to use the Microsoft Content […]

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