Microsoft’s required Oct. 3 security update, which was meant to fix a bug affecting Internet Explorer and printing, has led to Windows users reporting even more problems. Most are pointing to troubles with the Start Menu, while others are seeing booting and printing errors. Users complained across Microsoft’s Answers forum, Reddit, Neowin, BornCity, AskWoody, BleepingComputer, …
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If folding screens aren’t quite ready for prime time, devices with two screens are ready to step up instead. Microsoft is adding to its Surface lineup of PCs a device with dual 9-inch displays called the Surface Neo, briefly shown at the company’s annual Surface launch event in New York on Wednesday. The event also saw the launch of the …
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Microsoft announced the new Surface Laptop 3 on Wednesday at its Surface event in New York. Like the Surface Laptop 2, the Laptop 3 is a 13.5-inch clamshell touchscreen laptop, but will now also come in a larger 15-inch size. They’ll also be the first Surface Laptops to have a USB-C port instead of mini-DisplayPort, and will run on Intel’s …
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More than two decades ago, Microsoft started designing software for mobile devices. Two years ago, it gave up on phones, conceding that Google and Apple had won the OS battle. On Wednesday, Microsoft reversed course, unveiling a dual-screen smartphone. But rather than push a homegrown operating system in phones, Microsoft has taken up rival Google’s Android software, which powers over …
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Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled the Windows 10X operating system, which will work with the new dual-screen Surface Neo devices, expected to be available in late 2020. Windows 10 X is part of Microsoft’s multiyear journey to change the architecture of Windows and make it more modular, as we’ve already seen with the HoloLens 2, Surface Hub and Xbox. The OS is …
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It’s been hard for Windows devices to break free of Intel’s gravity, but Microsoft’s giving it another shot with the new 13-inch Surface Pro X, a tablet running Windows on an Arm processor. The company announced it Wednesday at its annual Surface hardware event in New York. It incorporates the Microsoft-custom version of a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the SQ1 Arm chip. …
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Windows 10 is now on more than 900 million devices, Microsoft said Tuesday. The company added more new Windows 10 devices over the last year than it ever has before, according to a tweet from Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of the Modern Life, Search and Devices group at Microsoft. “From PCs to HoloLens to Xbox to Surface Hub, Windows …
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For those longing for the days of Windows 95 and its useful collection of PowerToys utilities, Microsoft is letting you add helpful little extensions that make Microsoft’s desktop more delightful to use on Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon). PowerToys, Microsoft’s playful name for a series of free Windows add-ons first developed for Windows 95, gives users greater flexibility when performing a …
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Microsoft will make Windows more flexible for power users with the return of PowerToys. These utilities are designed to let experts of the operating system customize and improve their productivity. There are two PowerToys available to preview on Friday. The first is a Windows shortcut guide that will display an overlay of the keyboard shortcuts for whatever window is currently …
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Microsoft released the first beta version of its overhauled Edge web browser Tuesday — and it wants you to help squash its bugs to smooth the way for the mainstream release in coming months. Microsoft’s new Edge is built on top of Chromium, Google’s open-source browser foundation for Chrome. The new Edge beta is available for Windows 7, Windows 10 …
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