Never give a sucker an even break. Yesterday, on a very out-of-band Wednesday, Microsoft released preview patches for Windows 8.1 (but not 7!), Server 2012, and Windows 10 1709 (for bricked AMD machines only), with preview cumulative updates for Win10 1703 and 1607. There are also nine different .NET preview patches. What should you do? Nothing. More accurately, make sure…
Microsoft today announced a major change to how it will deliver new releases of Windows Server going forward. Instead of a release every few years (the last few major versions arrived in 2008, 2012 and 2016), Microsoft will now move to a semi-annual cycle that will see the company launch feature updates every spring and fall. This new release cadence,…
I did a bad thing. I opened a bad file and it borked my PC. So now, in concordance with the grand tradition of frustrated tech bloggers calling on enormous companies to conform to their wishes, here is my rant on how terrible computers are — Windows ones, this time anyway — and how they ought to be. Now, I’m…
HIGHLIGHTS New tab page loads 14.8 percent faster Chrome page loads are 5.9 percent faster Chrome startup time is 16.8 percent faster Google is ramping up its efforts to make its widely used Chrome browser faster. With this mind, Google has announced the integration of Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimisation to make Chrome up to 15 percent faster on Windows. This…
The period for the free update to Windows 10 almost ran, and Microsoft will soon begin to deactivate app Get Windows 10. This will happen after July 29, when to be able to upgrade to Windows 10 from your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 PC you will need to pay a certain amount. This is an early warning that you…
Lately we have witnessed a series of interesting ports on older operating systems and even console emulators for smart watches, so you would hardly be surprised if I say that Windows 95 is another thing that can run on Apple Watch. Apple Watch had the ability to run one of the most revered desktop operating systems Redmond has ever produced.…
The first major update of Windows 10 will be released at the beginning of August or at least such is the information that Microsoft release and later remove from his blog. First the company publish material without text, but with a title that says “Microsoft announces Windows 10 Anniversary Update available Aug. 2,” then the post was removed. The date…
Windows 7 is still the most popular version of the operating system, but its dominance is not as it was. Nine months after the release of Windows 10, the share of Windows 7 finally fell below 50%, while the presence of the veteran Windows XP now is calculated with a single digit number. This is undoubtedly good news for Microsoft,…
Microsoft announced in his blog that today blocked the ability to perform searches with the Google Search in digital assistant Cortana. The move comes in response to a number of recent solutions with which users can use extensions to set Google as the default search engine for Cortana, instead of Bing. Starting today, to ensure we can deliver the integrated…
Microsoft introduced the AppLocker feature in Windows 7, providing company administrators with the ability to whitelist and blacklist apps, ensuring that risk-laden apps are kept of the enterprise’s networks. A researcher has however discovered a flaw in Windows AppLocker that lets hackers bypass the protection, and install any app they want. Discovered by security researcher Casey Smith, the flaw allows…