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Microsoft has released the latest Insider preview build 16179 for the Windows 10 Redstone 3 update for PCs, and build 15205 for mobile devices. For PCs, power throttling seems to be the biggest feature on this build, at least from an end-user perspective, where users can gain up to 11 percent more battery life on…
Microsoft is introducing a new power-throttling feature on Windows 10 running on new hardware from Intel that will allow the system to control battery usage of background apps to give up to 11 percent more battery life. That feature is now available on Insider Preview Build 16176 that was released before the Easter holidays, but testers…
It’s called ‘My People’, and it’s coming on Microsoft’s Windows 10 Redstone 3 update, the major update coming later this year. This is the big one – the one that brings foundational design changes and the ability to work seamlessly on mobile devices as well as desktops. Or that’s what we hope, considering this is…
Some sources are speculating that Surface Phone from Microsoft is dead in the water because of poor Windows Phone sales during the fourth quarter of 2016. We don’t believe that’s the case. Though it might be further delayed, logical inference shows that Surface Phone could actually come ahead of the holiday season 2017. First of all,…
Based on information that Microsoft shared with participants of the recent Ignite partner conference held in Australia, it appears that, a few months after Windows 10 Creators Update is released to the public, the next major update, currently being called Redstone 3, could also be rolled out in 2017. The timeline Microsoft has given for the supposed…
Over several recent articles, we’ve spoken about why Windows 10 Creators Update was crucial to Microsoft, Windows 10 adoption rates and the whole Surface device experience. Meanwhile, another, even bigger and more significant update is already in the works. Redstone 3, expected to release in Fall 2017, is the other piece of the Windows 10…
A new feature on Windows 10 known as “Sets” – and currently codenamed “Tabshell” – could bring a tabbed experience to some UWP apps on Microsoft Store with the Redstone 4 update. The next Windows 10 iteration could also get a new Apple Spotlight-like universal search feature. Each of the Sets is basically a set…
In a recent announcement on a blog post from Microsoft’s General Manager, Windows Commercial Marketing, Bernardo Caldas, the Redmond, Washington-based software and cloud giant has committed to at least two major updates for Windows 10, Office 365 and System Center Configuration Manager each year. The announcement, however, also holds a piece of information that shows…
As we approach the launch date for Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft is pushing preview builds faster and faster than ever before. The Creators Update Bug Bash is still underway. In fact, they just finished the Beam webcast for the Bug Bash on February 7, and followed it up with the Windows Developer Day webcast…
Samsung said in a press release earlier this month that it is partnering with Qualcomm Technologies to create the Snapdragon 835 mobile processor with Samsung’s 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology. 10 nm is a chip manufacturing process which has evolved from the prevalent 14 nm technology, which means the half-pitch (half the distance between identical features…
The much-awaited Redstone 2 Windows 10 update is still a few days away, but Microsoft has just released a new test build 14946 for PC and mobile testers. The Insider test build is available on Fast Ring, and it’s been a while since Windows Phone Insiders are seeing a test build for smartphones after almost…
Everybody’s been waiting for the major Windows 10 update codenamed Redmond 2. So far, some builds have been released for Insider Preview, but the last one – build 14942 – has some interesting tweaks showing. The first of these is the ability to hide the App List that you currently see on the Start Menu, and…
Lots of rumors have been floating around about the yet-unacknowledged-by-Microsoft Surface Phone that is expected to make its debut in late October. New sources now say that the phone will be available in multiple variants. The report doesn’t say what combination of RAM and internal memory we’re expected to see on the new Surface Phone,…
Windows 10 Mobile will no longer receive Insider builds on the Redstone 3 branch. The company has confirmed that it will stay indefinitely on the “Feature2” branch. The feature2 branch was initially thought to be a temporary build branch for Windows 10 Mobile, but it now looks like that is its final resting place. To…
This September, Microsoft will be releasing the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to all Windows 10 users. No, it’s not a typo: they’re calling it Creators Update once again, but with “Fall” to denote the time of release. Until they announced the name at their ongoing Build 2017 conference, it was called Redstone 3. Redstone…
