An app that is installed on every Windows 10 system, but is blissfully ignored as it serves no purpose for the average consumer: 3D Builder. The 3D Builder app on Windows 10 can be treated as an early version of the upcoming Paint 3D and Remix 3D app and service. …
Read More »Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring Builds for PC halted, while Microsoft adds support for the Unified Update Platform
In yesterday’s announcement for the Insider Fast Ring Build 14977, Microsoft mentioned a blocker that forced the team into ditching an update for the PC this week – it seems the delay is going to be a bit longer. Microsoft has announced that the next Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring …
Read More »Windows 10 to get improved Symlinks support for developers
Symlinks is short for Symbolic Links – it’s a link leading to a “real” file or folder somewhere else. This might sound an awful lot like your ordinary shortcut in Windows; a Windows shortcut, however, is not a symlink. A Windows shortcut is a file – a tiny one – …
Read More »Plex Cloud now supports OneDrive, Google Drive, and DropBox for storage
Plex offers a suite of products that help people manage and organize their home-built libraries of movies and TV shows; it’s like Netflix, but for your content. The content, of course, is stored locally – on a computer or a network attached storage – and is streamed to clients locally …
Read More »Windows 10 now owns 24% of the desktop OS market share
According to a report by NetMarketShare, Windows 10 market share hit 23.72% at the end of November, amid a reduction in growth since the Windows 10 free upgrade offer ended earlier this year. The 23.72% market share in November was an increase of 1.12% over October when the market share …
Read More »Microsoft announces its 12 Days of Deals as 2016 comes to an end
It is tradition, for Microsoft, to host the 12 days of deals every year in December. It’s the perfect timing – just before the Christmas weeks begin, and just after the Black Friday fever ends. Things are bit different from the tradition this year; unlike the previous years, this year …
Read More »Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring Preview Build 14977 brings bug fixes and EPUB support for mobile
Two weeks ago Microsoft released Build 14971, with one tiny problem – it was only for the PC; this week, Microsoft is releasing Build 14977 to the Fast Ring Preview Insiders, and this time it’s only for the mobile. It seems that a bug that resulted in breaking pre-installed apps …
Read More »Microsoft and other U.S. companies reluctant, as China demands access to proprietary source code
It’s getting harder for American companies to do business in the East – the Russians have already started hitting Microsoft with bad news that turns worse soon enough, and now the Chinese government has passed a legislation forcing software companies, network equipment manufacturers, and other technology suppliers to disclose their …
Read More »HP announces a new 2-in-1 laptop designed for school students
HP has announced the ProBook x360 Education Edition 2-in-1 laptop; designed and built for the teenagers who often treat their gadgets with some fair amount of abuse. HP indeed means that; the laptop passes the MIL-STD 810G qualification – the same standards that U.S. military equipment need to pass. HP …
Read More »Nokia brand to return in 2017 with Android-powered smartphones
Nokia is making a comeback; In the May of 2016, Microsoft decided to sell the feature phone division at Microsoft Mobile, and described it as an “unwanted extra.” The sale has a complicated structure – while the factories and the 4,500 employees who were working in said factories are now …
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