Note: Microsoft has recently reorganized the Insider program. The Fast ring is now known as the Dev Channel. The Slow ring is now known as the Beta Channel and Release Preview ring is now known as the Release Preview Channel. Windows 10 Preview Build 20155 Here is the list of fixes contained in today’s new build: We fixed an issue that could result in Notepad unexpectedly being removed after resetting your PC....
Windows Studio Effects arrived with Windows 11 22H2 and uses AI to improve video and audio calls on apps like Teams, as well as creator tools and gaming features. But the feature depends on laptops having a Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which includes the Surface Pro X with SQ1/SQ2 processors — co-developed by Microsoft and Qualcomm — as well as the latest SQ3, available as variant of the newly announced Surface Pro 9....
Fans of polls now have a one-click instant poll feature that lets meeting participants quickly round up opinions with binary responses like yes/no, thumb up/down, heart/broken heart. These can be done on the fly by presenters, so they can be reactive rather than pre-staged. Microsoft boasts that Teams is the only app with one-click instant binary polling. “With our competitors, presenters must take time to draft a poll in advance,” Microsoft notes in its November 2022 Teams update....
Gina Rodriguez is an empowering, if reluctant hero in Miss Bala, offering a fascinating star turn in Hardwicke’s skillfully wrought action thriller. Director Catherine Hardwicke made a name for herself early on in her career, hitting the industry in 2003 with Thirteen, an unflinching look at life for young girls. More than 15 years later, Hardwicke returns with Miss Bala, an adaptation of the same-named Mexican film that released in 2011....
Late yesterday, Microsoft released a new version of its Freeware SyncToy utility – version 2.1 (build 2.1.0.0) for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available for free download. The latest release includes significant upgrades which should be able to meet all your PC “sync” needs. I downloaded the tool and had it up and running and syncing a few of my folders in just a few minutes....
After this the brand tried other configurations and other philosophies, always denying that it did. But after all, as we now know, the Surface Mini was a reality, which never reached the market. Despite never reaching the stores, the Surface Mini has been spoken several times and taken for granted. This would be a reduced version of Surface, with some unique features and that would make it an interesting proposal....
Also on the list of today’s Microsoft gaming announcements: Later this year, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users will be able to play from the cloud select games they already own or have bought outside of the Xbox Game Pass library Microsoft and Samsung, starting June 30, will bring the Xbox App to Samsung 2022 Smart TVs so users can play cloud-enabled games in the Game Pass Ultimate library on Smart TVs without a console Microsoft is adding Argentina and New Zealand to its list of regions supported by Xbox Cloud Gaming as of June 9 Microsoft will add curated demos of upcoming games for Xbox Game Pass members to aid with game discovery as part of “Project Moorcroft” some time “within the next year....
LG has launched the K42 in India with the ‘Made in India’ tag. The device was previously spotted on BIS certification and has finally launched. The military grade LG K42 with quad camera comes at a rather attractive price tag of Rs 10,990 ($151) in India. LG K42 Features and Specifications LG K42 comes equipped with a 6.6-inch HD+ FullVision punch hole display with a 20:9 aspect ratio. The device is powered by MediaTek Helio P22 SoC paired with 3GB of RAM....
MindNode is one of the most popular Mac/iOS apps for visual brainstorming and mind mapping and the Mac version has received nice update today with new outline features. The new capabilities make it easy add, edit, and remove nodes right from the hierarchical view. MindNode version 2021.1 for Mac brings side by side outlining and mind mapping for a more versatile experience. The outline view has also received a design update....
While at the crux of ABC sitcom Modern Family is the happenings between the core Pritchett family and their respective families, there are lots of friendships, too. Some of the friendships are between family members, others involve outside individuals who have become like family, or are simply close friends (or maybe even frenemies). Now in its 11th and final season, which are the best friendships we’ve seen on the show, and which are the worst?...
There are situations for many Active Directory administrators who want to be able to replicate changes between Active Directory sites almost instantly but are frustrated because of the minimum limit of 15 minutes set on their IP Site Links. If bandwidth is not an issue between the AD Sites, you can bypass the 15-minute minimum requirement by modifying the “options” attribute on the site link. There are several options you can set, but if you are just interested in configuring your inter-site replication to behave like your intra-site replication, then set the attribute to 0x1 (USE_NOTIFY)....
Malicious Office documents can also be used to hack your computer. By exploiting security flaws in the app, hackers can access your computer remotely and plant more malware. Tap or click here to see how to protect yourself from malicious documents. One of the most common ways cybercriminals crack your Microsoft Account is through fake websites that look like Microsoft owns them. Anti-phishing software is getting better at detecting them, so scammers are implementing a sneaky new tactic to trap more victims....
KB4515384 for Windows 10 1903 May 2019 Update As is usually the case for cumulative updates, there are no new features to report. But today’s update will bump your build to 18362.356 and it includes the following fixes and improvements: Provides protections against a new subclass of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities, known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling, for 32-Bit (x86) versions of Windows (CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130). Use the registry settings as described in the Windows Client and Windows Server articles....
Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17763 Here is the list of fixes, changes, and improvements for this latest build: The build watermark at the lower right-hand corner of the desktop is no longer present in this build. This doesn’t mean we’re done…We fixed an issue where touching a Flash element in Microsoft Edge with two or more fingers could result in the tab crashing.We fixed an issue where thumbnails and icons might not be rendered if there were any video files saved to the desktop....
Original Old Article… Way back in 2008, we covered RD Tabs, a freeware RDP client alternative that answered the prayers of many a systems administrator for an easier way to manage multiple RDP sessions at once. This groovy application from Avian Waves was well-deserving of the props it received. Still, now, Microsoft has officially taken up the torch by offering a more elegant way to handle connections to numerous RDP servers at once within its very own Remote Desktop Connection Manager....
It’s not the first time that a ‘Twitter for iPhone’ tag has given away the fact that someone is not using the device you might expect them to. Latest casualty of the telltale tag is Joe Belfiore, the Microsoft VP who fronts the Windows Phone project. When The Verge ran a piece on it, Business Insider noticed that Belfiore used the comments section to share the reasons he is using an iPhone whilst on a 9-month sabbatical....
Earlier this month, Motherboard reported that, like so many other voice assistants and services, Microsoft had also hired contractors to listen to samples of recorded Skype calls and interactions with Cortana. Their reasoning is that some of the audio is saved to help better train the company’s artificial intelligence programs. But this wasn’t all they were recording. Now, Motherboard is reporting that contractors were also hired by Microsoft to listen to audio recordings made by Xbox video game consoles, as a way to improve voice recognition....
But thankfully, there is hope on the horizon. Where jobs disappeared, new ones are quickly cropping up to take their place — including several that address the specific needs of this moment in history. Tap or click here to see how you can get a job as a contact-tracer for COVID-19 patients. Small businesses and the health industry aren’t the only ones adjusting to the changes. Microsoft, one of the biggest companies in the world, sees an opportunity to help job-seekers prepare for life under this new normal....
Microsoft Will Disable Get Windows 10 App Microsoft started rolling out KB3035583 in late May 2015, which prepped systems for the free upgrade. Users running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 Update 1 started receiving notifications at the end of July 2015 informing them of its availability. Not all users were happy about the upgrade. Recently, the software firm celebrated Windows 10 reaching a milestone 300 million active installations. This goal has been met with some resistance, though....
The rumor of this operating system started circulating early this year, though we didn’t actually know what this operating system was supposed to do for the company, and how it was any different from the other Windows 8.1 operating system that are available in the market. The company has now announced that Windows 8.1 with Bing is pretty much same as the Windows 8.1 we are all familiar with, except that it will have Bing as the default search engine on Internet Explorer....
