Microsoft Windows 7 Is On The Edge Of Death This Week; While Edge Is About To Be Reborn
This is a big week for Microsoft as Windows 7 hits EoL tomorrow, January 14th, and the very next day sees the beginning of the roll out of the new...
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Tag: Windows 10
PC Perspective Podcast #569 – Catching Up With David Hewlett
Actor, writer, and geek David Hewlett joins us this week to talk about the latest trends in technology, Windows 10 news, and the return of the classic 1997 Blade Runner game. 00:00:06 -…
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Microsoft’s Christmas Present, The Return Of Ads
You may recall the outrage last year when Microsoft started inserting ads of their other products into the mail and calendar apps which ship with Windows 10, which they finally removed after…
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Microsoft Updates Supported CPU Page for Windows 10 1909
There is a page on the Hardware Dev Center where Microsoft outlines the CPUs that are supported for any given Windows release. The document is a bit confusing for end-users...
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1909 Now Named Windows 10 November 2019 Update
The next feature update to Windows 10 will be called the Windows 10 November 2019 Update. This falls in line with the previous three names: the April 2018 Update, the...
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Upcoming Windows 10 19H2 Update Adds Optimizations for Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0’s Favored Cores
Microsoft’s imminent Windows 10 19H2 update (bringing the OS to version 1909) is set to rollout later this month and is set to bring bug fixes, UI tweaks, and performance optimizations to…
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Windows Update Déjà Vu, Though They Claim It Is Brand New
Rejoice Windows 10 users, for we will be seeing a return of sanity to Windows Update thanks to a 'brand new' feature coming soon to Windows 10. No longer will the contents…
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Feeling Edge-y Today?
How's that for an incentive to try Microsoft's new beta version of Edge meets Chromium? Not only can you scream and yell about the interface and compatibility, but you have a chance…
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Microsoft Is Painting WordPad Into A Corner
Microsoft is more or less keeping their word that Paint will not be going away, but they are making it an optional feature in upcoming builds. It seems that both WordPad and…
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Cortana, Are Windows 10 Updates A Joke To You?
Windows 10 Build 18956 is arriving for those on the Fast Ring, including The Register who took a look at the upcoming update. If you are looking for improvements that actually have…
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That New SWAPGS Spectre Flaw Was Already Patched
We only found out about the SWAPGS variant of Spectre V1 which affects Intel processors yesterday, but apparently Microsoft quietly pushed a Windows 10 patch for it last month. The...
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Stuck In Windows S? You Are Not Alone!
If you have recently discovered you a trapped in a world where you can only install or run UWP programs grabbed from the Microsoft Store, you are suffering from the same issue…
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Nice OS You Got There, Shame If Someone Were To Update It
Windows 10 has had more EOL dates than any previous Microsoft OS and we are quickly approaching yet another one. On November 12th Windows 10 1803, aka Spring 2018, will be retired…
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Windows 10 1903 Adds VRR to Unsupported Games
Full-screen, DirectX 11 applications that do not natively support variable refresh rates (VRR) might suddenly start working with GSync and Adaptive-Sync. A Microsoft Developer Blog post discusses the new feature...
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Windows Media Center, the second coming?
Charlie Owen, who was on the original Windows Media Center team has posted the entirety of the WMC SDK to GitHub for any and all to work on. This means that for…
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Windows 10 Create Process Performance Analysis
Bruce Dawson (currently at Google on the Chrome team; formerly at Valve, Microsoft, and others) has blogged another example of Windows 10 performance regressions – this time in CreateProcess. He...
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It’s a Tile fire, another reason to distrust your new Start Menu
*** Update from April 18th, 11:56 Microsoft has now deleted the nameserver record and we no longer control the subdomain. We still haven't received a reply from Microsoft. *** If...
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