Editors’ note, Nov. 3, 2017: This story was updated to specify that the free upgrade for those seeking assistive technologies will expire Dec. 31. After that, all users will need to pay for the Windows 10 upgrade, which starts at $119. Microsoft hasn’t yet closed the door all the way for those in search of …
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“You use this for a week and then go to any other phone, you’re going to be upset,” says Tom Moss, Razer‘s head of mobile. He’s talking about the Razer Phone. (From Razer, the company you might know from mice, headsets or laptops.) It’s real. It’s sitting in my hand. It’s unlike any phone I’ve held all year. Update: Here’s …
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Microsoft is going all in on helping people work from pretty much anywhere in the world. The company’s most advanced, most connected tablet yet, the Surface Pro with LTE Advanced, will be shipping to business customers in December, Corporate Vice President of Devices Panos Panay announced on Tuesday at the Microsoft Future Decoded event in London. The big benefit of …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. And so he decided to browse fast. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET At what point does corporate loyalty break and honesty take over? I’m moved to finding the answer after viewing (a small portion of) a Microsoft presentation called “Datacenter Transformation. Migrating Apps, Workloads and Data …
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A year ago, Apple overhauled its high-end MacBook Pro laptops with something the computing industry had never seen before: a touch-sensitive strip with a programmable display called the Touch Bar. Its flexibility shows the function keys it replaces to be relics from computing’s dark ages — specifically 1971, when IBM added them to mainframe terminals, Apple said. “This is crazy, …
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A year ago, Facebook released Workplace, its answer to the popular collaborative tool Slack. Early Thursday, Facebook said it’s expanding the software’s chat capabilities. Workplace’s chat feature has always had mobile and browser components, but Facebook is adding a desktop app. From it, employees can do screen sharing, file sharing and video chat. It’s available for Mac and PCs, as …
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Microsoft has given anyone with a Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon) PC — particularly those on a laptop with a speedy but small-capacity solid-state drive — good reason to use OneDrive. The new OneDrive Files On-Demand feature of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update lets you free up disk space by showing you all of your OneDrive files right in File …
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This summer, Intel delivered what it says is a “once-in-a-decade” performance upgrade to its line of mobile processors that power Apple’s MacBook Air and iMac, Microsoft’s Surface Pro, and hundreds of other popular devices. The new chips, the first wave of eighth-gen Core CPUs, and collectively known as the Kaby Lake R series, are just the latest in a series of …
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Some users with specific combinations of PC components are reporting problems updating to the latest version of Windows 10. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Microsoft rolled out the Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 on October 17, adding new mixed reality support, better OneDrive integrations and other new features. But not everyone has been able to update successfully, and the issue …
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Now playing: Watch this: Here’s how you make a hologram 1:35 Capturing a hologram is a lot easier than I expected. I’m standing inside Microsoft’s mixed-reality capture studio in San Francisco when a director shouts, “Action!” All of a sudden, I’m busting out bad dance moves in the middle of an 8-foot circle for about 10 seconds. And that’s it. …
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