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Most platforms have a ton of shortcut keys that nobody uses, simply because not everyone knows about them. On Windows 10, as well as other versions of Windows, there’s a simple trick you can use to either minimize all Windows, or keep just one window maximized and minimize everything else. To minimize all windows, including…
After a new build of Windows 10 was accidentally pushed to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring, news has leaked about Microsoft getting ready to launch three different versions of Windows, most likely created for enterprise and education users. The build in question, Build 16212, was never intended for release for Windows 10 Mobile, but…
In less than two months, it will be a year since Microsoft stopped offering the free Windows 10 upgrade for users of older licensed versions of the Windows OS. However, since that time, Microsoft has been keeping the free upgrade to Windows 10 open for certain users. But very few people know that they can still…
Over the past several months, possibly longer, Microsoft has been working with mobile chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies on a very special project. Essentially, what they’ve been trying to do is run the full version of Windows 10 (not Windows 10 Mobile) on a mobile chipset using ARM’s instruction set. The original rumored device on which this…
Yesterday, at the Computex 2017 expo in Taipei, Taiwan, Qualcomm Technologies, subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, announced that three major OEMs – Lenovo, HP and ASUS – will be the first to build “mobile PCs” that are powered by the Snapdragon 835, which features the company’s X16 LTE cellular modem. These devices will run Windows 10,…
As of today, the Beam livestreaming feature on Windows 10 is officially getting rebranded as “Mixer”, and it comes with a bunch of new capabilities. Beam is the name of the company that Microsoft acquired last year, and also the name of the livestreaming service that is available on Xbox One and Windows 10 devices. It…
The problem of old files clogging up your computer is as old as home computing itself. Files that you no longer use or even need are often sitting there and taking up valuable space on your hard drive. With new technologies generating tons of data, there’s an increasing need for efficient storage management on devices,…
The Chinese government is paranoid about security. That’s a gross understatement. And that’s even the reason the government banned the use of Windows on government computers back in 2014. But Microsoft has been sidling up to the Chinese government, and has developed a special edition of Windows 10 to put their minds at ease about…
Microsoft unveiled its Story Remix feature for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update at Build 2017, and last week Insiders in the Fast ring received the first update via Windows 10 Insider build 16199. But if you’re on the Fast ring and you don’t see it yet, you might be part of the control group;…
With the emergence of the Surface Phone aka Cellular PC concept, it would appear that the demise of Windows Phones running Windows 10 Mobile is inevitable. While that could be true in the long term, there are two critical elements that could still keep Windows 10 Mobile and its associated device ecosystem ticking along for…
We recently saw how Windows 7 was easily the most affected Windows version as far as the rampant and persistent WannaCry ransomware attacks are concerned. While business users will have to pay to upgrade to Windows 10 pro versions, individuals on the Home edition of older Windows versions can actually get a free Windows 10 upgrade…
The Windows ecosystem took a major hit over the past ten days because of the WannaCry ransomware worm that affected over 200,000 machines in 150 countries, but it is Windows that will benefit from the widespread attack in the end. One version was hit the most – Windows 7 – while another was not even targeted…
We’ve been talking for some time about how there won’t ever be a device called Surface Phone coming out of Microsoft’s stables, but that the Cellular PC concept was essentially aimed at delivering the same experience that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has had in mind all along for an “ultimate mobile device.” We’ve also discussed…
With the weekend bringing one of the biggest and most widespread ransomware attacks ever mounted against institutions, companies and consumers alike, one not-so-obvious fact appears to have missed most people. That fact is that this is an attack on the Windows platform, and with Windows 10 adoption at only about 25 percent of the entire…
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…
