Windows 10

Windows Hello – as long as you have a camera compliant with it – can log you into your Windows 10 PC, just by looking at you; the behavior is natural and has become quite common in the newer Windows 10 devices – laptops, tablets, or even desktops. It sounds …

How to Install Windows 10 Technical Preview on Your PC Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and now a jump to Windows 10. No one knows what happened to Windows 9 but as per Microsoft, they consider the Windows 8.1 as the Windows 9. To be fair, this is quite satisfying logic …

A few months ago – in 2016 – reports showed up, talking about a brand-new design language Microsoft was developing: Project NEON. Project NEON is meant to bring consistency to the inconsistent world of Windows 10 – we talked about this when the first reports came out; today, MSPowerUser has …

Windows 10 now houses more than half the users of Valve’s gaming platform, Steam. This comes almost a year and a half after the release of Microsoft’s newest operating system. Quick rise to the top The data comes from Steam’s voluntary hardware and software survey, conducted by Valve every month. …

2016 is over, and the stats from NetMarketShare for December are here. According to the report, Windows 10 now owns 24.36% of the market; the November market share stood at 23.72%, making this a 0.64% increase. NetMarketShare gets its data from the network of websites that use its services, so …

The Blue Screen of Death is soon getting a color change for Insider builds of Windows 10. This change was found thanks to a hint from a Microsoft employee, and the hard work of everyone finicking around with the recently leaked Build 14997. The Blue Screen of Death Almost every Windows …

It has been one of the strongest criticisms of Windows 10; the lack of control with Windows Updates brings no joy to anyone and often forces users to stick with Windows 7. Microsoft, it seems, is going to address this issue finally. In the leaked Windows 10 Build 14997, Windows …

The holidays are here, and it’s time to look back at the year and think of the next; for Microsoft won’t be releasing any more Insider builds until January of 2017. The news comes from Dona Sarkar, who is – as she says – the Chief Mischief Maker of the …

The Windows Insider program has taken a break – that doesn’t mean Microsoft is on a break, though; the internal Windows builds at Microsoft are still chugging along, and it seems Microsoft wants Cortana to be more in control. The latest internal builds of Windows at Microsoft have a brand …

It can be quite difficult to juggle between a balance of security and convenience; longer and stronger passwords are secure, but harder to remember; a four-digit PIN is somewhat secure but adds another step between you and your work. Yubico has been making its Yubikey authentication devices for a while …