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11 reasons why Apple and Adobe should fear the new Microsoft

It looks to me like Microsoft has wrestled control of our creative future from Apple and Adobe. When you combine Microsoft’s two most recent updates of its Windows 10 operating system — the first Creators Update and the just-announced Fall Creators Update — with its aggressive work in mixed-reality and computing-related hardware, it looks like …

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iTunes is coming to the Windows 10 Store

Now playing: Watch this: iTunes coming to Windows 10 Store 0:57 Apple‘s iTunes is coming to the Windows Store. Yes, you read that correctly. Related coverage from Microsoft Build Everything just announced at Microsoft Build iTunes is coming to the Windows 10 Store Microsoft to take on Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows and …

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and everything else at Microsoft Build

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft debuts Windows Story Remix to edit and organize… 3:54 Microsoft wants to be a key asset in your digital toolbox — regardless of whether you’re using Windows, iOS or Android. Unlike the high-level wonkiness of the previous day at Microsoft Build, day two of the company’s developers conference had plenty for average consumers across the …

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​Windows 10 Clipboard is a direct iPhone

A lot of people, myself included, find sharing files across phones and PCs to be challenging. Wireless seamless phone-to-computer sharing, however, is starting to happen. Microsoft’s newly announced Windows 10 Clipboard, a feature of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update unveiled at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, shows a lot of promise. Clipboard allows sharing by copy-and-paste from Windows 10 machines to …

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Microsoft unveils its own motion controllers for Windows 10 VR

VR needs good controllers. The Oculus Rift has a pair. The HTC Vive has a pair. Microsoft’s upcoming VR and “mixed reality” headsets will have them, too: here’s what they look like. Related coverage from Microsoft Build Everything just announced at Microsoft Build iTunes is coming to the Windows 10 Store Microsoft to take on Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home …

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Microsoft says 500 million devices are powered by Windows 10

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft CEO: 500 million people use Windows 10 1:37 Enlarge Image Satya Nadella speaking at Microsoft’s developer conference. Microsoft Are you using Windows 10? Microsoft said more than half a billion devices are powered by its latest software, called Windows 10, to power their PCs, tablets and phones. “The opportunity for us as developers to have …

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Windows 10 S locks default to Edge and Bing. What’s Microsoft teaching us?

Correction, May 4, 2017: It’s free for schools to upgrade from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro. May 2, Microsoft held an event to launch a new education-focused version of its Windows 10 operating system that can run on ultracheap laptops. Windows 10 S is a locked-down version of Windows 10 Pro: Microsoft made it crystal-clear that you can …

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Who exactly is Microsoft’s new $999 Surface Laptop for?

Microsoft’s recent EDU event focused on education technology, low-cost classroom PCs and the new, student-friendly Windows 10 S operating system. But the biggest hardware reveal of the day was something that might strain your average student’s budget. The latest from Microsoft Hands on with the Surface Laptop Everything just announced at MicrosoftEDU Windows 10 S attempts to retake the classroom …

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Surface Laptop, Windows 10 S unveiled by Microsoft

It’s back to school for Microsoft. Microsoft wants its laptops and software once again to have a prime place in the classroom, where it once held a stronghold until Google’s cheap, efficient Chromebooks came along. At its EDU event on Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new Surface laptop, along with some partner PCs, meant to help it win back schools across …

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Surface Laptop can be switched to Windows 10 Pro for free until 2018

Don’t let the new Windows 10 S operating system stop you from buying a Surface Laptop this year. The streamlined OS limits you to using applications that are in Microsoft’s Windows Store. But, as noted in the tech specs for Microsoft’s new ultraportable, if you’d rather run non-Store apps, you can switch to Windows 10 Pro for free until December …

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