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If you’re a mixed fan of Apple and Microsoft, you’ll be happy to know that your iPhone will soon be able to share content with your Windows 10 PC through a special app for the purpose. Support for ‘Continue on PC’ is already available for Android users. The feature, similar to Apple’s own Handoff function,…
After much hue and cry about MS Paint being deprecated on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the company has clarified that the app is merely being moved to the Windows Store, where it will be available for free. The only difference on the upcoming version of Windows 10 is that MS Paint will no longer…
A couple of Surface Phone revelations came out of the recent Bug Bash that Microsoft recently held for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. During the Q&A session, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President of the Operating Systems Group, made it amply clear that no existing Lumia device running Windows 10 Mobile would get Windows 10 on…
As expected, Windows 10 Mobile, the unloved child of Microsoft Windows, has received an Insider build update with nothing more than a few bug fixes. Build 15230 fixes a VPN profile issue, a notification issue for fitness bands and Called ID matching problems for Japan and Denmark. That’s it. We’ve known for some time that…
Windows 10 has been getting fast and furious Insider builds for the past several weeks now, and the latest one, Build 16237, comes with an invitation to developers to Bug Bash for ten days starting July 14. There were quite a few feature additions in the new Windows 10 build leading up to Fall Creators…
If Microsoft wants to prevent Apple from creating an augmented reality platform as big as the App Store, it has to move soon with the Surface Phone, possibly bringing in deep integration with a slimmed-down HoloLens to really lock down the market. The gist of that argument was put forth by Windows Central’s Jason Ward, but…
Windows 10 Version 1507, the original iteration of Windows 10, has already stopped receiving monthly security patches as of May 9, 2017. Presumably because of low upgrade rates, Microsoft will now start reminding users of that version to upgrade to current Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703.) While this can be seen as yet another attempt…
In its ongoing fight against Windows vulnerability to ransomware attacks of the past several weeks, Microsoft intends to include a feature in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update that automatically prevents malicious apps like ransomware from accessing folders that are protected. Dubbed ‘controlled folder access’, the new feature essentially protects specifically designated folders and files…
If you’re a Windows 10 Mobile device user, you’ve probably been forced to oscillate between believing that the W10M ecosystem will live on, and being told that this lovechild of Microsoft’s romance with smartphones has reached the end of its natural life. With Microsoft not stating the obvious, there’s no clear indication of which way things…
Almost a year after Microsoft claimed to have closed the doors on free Windows 10 upgrades, the company is still offering the option to users of assistive technologies. In fact, you can get the latest Windows 10 Creators Update absolutely free right now, as long as you have an existing licensed version of Windows 7…
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…
All through the WannaCry ransomware attacks, Microsoft kept telling users that Windows 10 was safe from being targeted. Now, however, security researchers from RiskSense have ported a proof of concept EternalBlue exploit to the older version of Windows 10 – version 1511 – that was released in November 2015. According to Sean Dillon, senior analyst at…
Whether you’re on a developer beta build of iOS 11 or the new developer preview 3 for Android O, you’ll notice that most of the major changes aren’t inherently OS-focused. Many of the new features, in fact, are about notifications, app icons and other UI and UX changes that relate more to the way we…
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…
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,…
