Whether you love or hate Microsoft’s automatic updates for Windows 10, it’s a given you’ll run into a snag at some point. To deal with the inevitable botched installs before you start angry-tweeting, Microsoft’s added an upcoming capability to Windows 10 that will make it automatically uninstall any update that’s preceded a failed startup. At …
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Corel surrendered to the inevitable and dropped its Mac version of the CorelDraw products in 2001. 18 years on, the company is bringing it back simultaneously with the release of its latest Windows update, CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2019, and its debut into the web app world. The difference this time is the Mac version isn’t a warmed-over Windows application. Instead …
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We’ve known for a while now that Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser with Chrome tech, but some possible leaked screenshots make it look a whole lot like Google’s Chrome. The screenshots apparently show the browser in its current state, Neowin reported Tuesday, as Microsoft tests it. The navigation, refresh and home buttons are in the same place as in …
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Despite the significant lead that voice assistants from Google, Apple and Amazon have over Microsoft’s offering, Cortana isn’t giving up. A Microsoft patent application published late last month details plans to better incorporate Cortana into third-party apps. The tech giant said it wants “an extensibility client that exposes an interface and service that enables third-party applications to be integrated with …
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When Facebook pitches its Oculus virtual reality headsets to the masses, it talks of their ability to make you feel as though you’re inside a game, visiting another planet or scuba diving next to massive blue whales, without ever leaving your couch. Its next act might be to take that other-worldliness to your work. Via a job posting, Oculus VR …
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The scene on the big display in front of me looks like something from Grey’s Anatomy. A team of doctors and nurses lean over a patient who’s draped with a white cloth, while a TV screen beside the operating table displays a video of the patient’s colon. Suddenly, a yellow line appears on that video, showing the doctors where to …
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The days of having to enter data manually are coming to an end. Microsoft’s newest feature for Excel, “Insert Data from Picture” has begun rolling out to users. The feature, first announced at the Ignite conference last September, lets you take a photo in the Excel app of table data with your phone. The information is automatically turned into an …
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Apple’s executives are often praised for sweating the details for a presentation or new product launch. But in Hollywood, they’re seen as annoying. That’s the message from a New York Post story Sunday, relaying complaints from unnamed Hollywood agents and producers who say the iPhone maker is “difficult” to work with. As Apple ramps up its streaming video ambitions, investing $1 …
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The USB Promoter Group — an association comprising Apple, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Renesas, ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments — today announced the pending USB4 specification, slated to deliver 40-gigabit-per-second throughput and support for host-based algorithms to more efficiently handle data operations. USB4 will use the same USB-C connector we’ve grown used to and still require specific cables to obtain the …
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Best Buy has launched discounts on a range of Microsoft hardware, including the Surface Pro, which remains the gold standard in the Windows tablet category. This sale is focused primarily on the Surface Pro and the Surface Laptop 2 — the second edition of Microsoft’s homegrown laptop and a member of CNET’s best laptop club. Though Best Buy is also …
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