As of January 14—the same date Microsoft put an end to Windows 7 support—Windows 10 Mobile has come to the end of its support life, with Microsoft preferring to recommend users still use Windows apps but to get them from Android and iOS app stores instead. Like with Windows 7, it also means you’ll want […]
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ConsumingTech is mainly a website focused on tutorials, but we also cover some news when worthwhile stories break. Here you will find news articles for computer software brands such as Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS; and web browser brands such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and more. Much of the news we cover is related to new features becoming available for your software.
Windows 7 Users Issued Final Windows 10 Upgrade Warning
The end of Microsoft support for Windows 7 happened a few days ago, on January 14 (2020). As a final reminder to those still using Windows 7, Microsoft has sent out an upgrade warning. The screen Windows 7 users will begin to see is titled “Your Windows 7 PC is out of support,” and it […]
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How New Microsoft Edge Will Roll Out for Windows 10 Users
In December of 2018, Microsoft publicly announced they were changing course from the EdgeHTML Microsoft Edge was developed on, and it would be succeeded by a Chromium-powered Edge browser instead. Microsoft never publicly announced why the change would be occurring, but some publications did suggest Microsoft had accused Google of purposefully preventing some websites from […]
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Avast and AVG Browser Extensions Caught Spying via Chrome and Firefox
According to a report posted on The Hacker News today, you should reconsider any trust you have put into Avast and AVG antivirus security programs. The list includes Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice, and AVG SafePrice. A lot of people know that both Avast and AVG are two of the better free […]
Fluent Design Coming to Microsoft Office for iOS and Android
Android’s material design was first announced in 2014, and most people were familiar with it by the time their smartphones ran on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Android didn’t do a great job of explaining precisely what material design was — some saw it as a different logo and other design elements, others presumed it was the […]
TeamSnap Allows for Importing Sports Calendars in Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft has added the option to import your family’s school and sports league events to your personal Outlook calendar by using the add calendar feature in Outlook.com. Few things require a calendar quite so much as children’s sports, so this should be a welcomed addition for many people. The new add calendar feature that allows […]
Progressive Web Apps in Microsoft Edge to Improve Native Apps in Windows 10
While Microsoft is still what could only be considered a tech giant, they indeed were not opportunistic when smartphones arrived. It’s almost hard to believe that small handheld computers that follow us around weren’t going to be the next big thing in tech, but somehow Microsoft executives at the time didn’t think so. Missing the […]
Windows 10 Free Upgrades Are Still Available Via Media Creation Tool
If you’re a Windows user, you probably know by now that Microsoft had been offering a free upgrade to most users to get them away from the older versions of Windows that they were looking to remove people from and to get them running on Microsoft’s latest creation, Windows 10. The free upgrade was only […]
Windows 10 1903 Update Management Changes for WSUS and Config Manager
Windows 10 1903 changes the way software updates are deployed. Microsoft now pushes the updates through what is known as the Unified Update Platform. For system administrators, this means you will need to configure a new product category for WSUS and Config Manager. Since October of 2018, Microsoft had said they were going to release […]
Microsoft Edge Beta Introduced by Windows
If you have been keeping up with Windows news, you would be aware that Microsoft has scrapped the plans for the EdgeHTML-based version of Microsoft Edge and has been instead working on a Chromium version. The new version that will be based on Chromium has some perks that the old one didn’t have, such as […]
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What to Use for Malware Protection If You Turn off S Mode?
Windows 10’s S mode helps you run a lighter version of the operating system. It’s best used for computers that might not have powerful CPUs and other hardware specs, as well as if you know you don’t need any features that come with the full version of Windows. Some suggest that S mode was meant […]
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Windows Defender Gets Rebranded to Microsoft Defender
Windows Defender has only been a reliable source of antivirus starting from Windows 10, and yet it is already being renamed. Microsoft has decided Windows Defender should, in fact, be called Microsoft Defender now. As Microsoft continues to evolve, it now sees Windows Defender as a cross-platform antivirus solution, hence the name change to Microsoft […]
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Google Chrome to Stop Incognito Mode Detection as of July
Google has announced that it will be closing loopholes that allowed for websites to detect when you were browsing the Web using Google Chrome in incognito mode. The specific loophole Google is referring to is the filesystem API loophole which some websites used in order to stop you from viewing content that they intended to […]
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Microsoft Edge Has Tracking Prevention As Flag
The latest Microsoft Edge preview build now comes with tracking prevention. Dona Sarker, the head of the Windows Insider team, recently announced that her and other Microsoft employees are listening to what users want, and something they were getting a lot of feedback on was offering an option to prevent tracking. The new Chromium-based version […]
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Google Chrome Reportedly “Spyware” According to Washington Post Columnist
Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler spent a week analyzing the popular Google Chrome web browser and concluded that Chrome “looks a lot like surveillance software.” Fowler found that after a week’s use of Chrome, he had 11,189 requests for tracker “cookies” that would have been blocked by other web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox. […]
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Microsoft Edge Market Share Reaches All-time High
Microsoft Edge’s market share has been growing steadily so far during 2019, with all but one month resulting in good growth. Microsoft developers are currently in the midst of making big changes to Edge—its foundation will soon be Chromium instead of Microsoft’s own Edge rending engine—so not many people were expecting Edge to be gaining […]
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Microsoft Soon to Make Windows 10 Passwordless Platform
There has been lots of chatter of late about Microsoft 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 could make the […]
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Google Refresh’s Mobile Search Results Page
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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South Korea to Ditch Microsoft for Linux When Windows 7 Support Ends
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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Gmail Tracks Your Purchases, and Apparently That Is a Problem
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 Patches New Worm Vulnerability in Windows XP
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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New Microsoft Paint Features Coming in Windows 10 Version 1903
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 Rebooted in GitHub for Windows 10
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 Introduces Windows Terminal App for Windows 10
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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Microsoft Build 2019: Introducing Microsoft Search
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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