Microsoft is now rolling out folder protection feature for OneDrive on Windows 10 helping them sync and protect their important documents, pictures, and desktop folders to OneDrive.
The day has arrived and Microsoft is now selling the "$399" Surface Go (it's $399 for the base model, if you don't want/need a keyboard or a pen). This latest member of the Surface family is smaller, lighter, and cheaper, ... Read more
Yesterday, a number of tech pundits picked up on a July 3rd "rant" by a former Windows Insider MVP, Kari Finn, who was vocal in his criticism of the program and its seeming focus on "taco hats" over bug fixes. ... Read more
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It seems like a familiar refrain: Microsoft toys with an innovative product, only to let it languish while other players build a better more popular service, leaving the Redmond giant to try, usually unsuccessfully, to play catch up. It's the ... Read more
In the latest Windows Insider builds, Microsoft "quietly" changed the name of Quiet Hours, the Windows 10 feature that allows you to temporarily turn off toast notifications. As of Windows 10 Insider build 17083, the feature is now called Focus ... Read more
Microsoft watchers have been poring over US Patent Office filings recently, coming up with a number of gems related to a new foldable "Surface Phone" device that Microsoft is apparently working on. One fan even used the patent drawings for ... Read more
Yesterday, Microsoft released a doozy of a Windows 10 Insider build for PCs on the Fast Ring, build 17063. Included in the build are our first look at Timeline, improvements to Edge that includes Web Media Extensions installed by default, ... Read more
Microsoft is having a big sale today only on Windows Mixed Reality headsets, as part of their annual "12 Days of Deals." We've had a chance to play around a bit with one of these devices, the Lenovo Explorer, and ... Read more
Yesterday, in Hawaii of all places, Windows EVP Terry Myerson took the stage at Qualcomm's Tech Summit to introduce "Always Connected PCs." These devices, running Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 ARM chips, boast incredible battery life, LTE 4G connectivity, and some special ... Read more
Yesterday, Microsoft took an unusual step in pre-announcing two new features that will soon be included in Windows 10 Insider RS4 builds, Timeline and Sets. Timeline will allow users to go back to a previous point in time in their ... Read more
Microsoft is reporting that its Microsoft Launcher, the Android launcher that can easily connect Microsoft services to Android phones in a nice clean interface, has reached one million active users and over 5 million downloads from the Google Play Store. ... Read more
We all know the woe is me Microsoft mantra with mobile, and the company has as much as given up on competing head to head with Google and Apple, at least on a hardware and OS level. Sure Microsoft is ... Read more
This morning, Bloomberg reported that Apple is indeed working on an AR (augmented reality) device, aiming to ship in 2020. Apple has already been hard at work on AR, releasing an ARKit developer tool to produce AR applications for iPhone ... Read more
Microsoft is reaching record stock price highs, and has been on quite a roll lately with the release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the upcoming launch of the Xbox One X, and some serious momentum for its cloud component, ... Read more
Windows Phone has been dying a long slow death, and now hovers in "maintenance mode," even though Microsoft is releasing a Windows 10 Mobile Fall Creators Update this week, and support is set to continue through 2019, at least. Some ... Read more
Microsoft officially released the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update yesterday with a slew of new features, including OneDrive On-Demand, support for 3D capabilities in everything from Paint to Office, Mixed Reality, a new way to interact with your contacts via ... Read more
So last weekend the inevitable other shoe dropped: Microsoft's Joe Belfiore finally confirmed what everyone had known for quite some time, Windows Phone is dead. The beleaguered mobile operating system has been put on life support in the form of ... Read more
Microsoft recently announced that the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update would be released on October 17th, almost exactly a month from now. Even though the days of "release to manufacturing," where software would have to be finalized and then time ... Read more
Things did not go as planned, and some Insiders were unable to download Windows 10 Insider build 16288.
This morning word filtered out that Panos Panay, Corporate Vice President, Surface, will be keynoting the Future Decoded conference, held on October 31- Nov 1 in London. Panay wasn't in the original Future Decoded speaker lineup, and was apparently added ... Read more