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Apps
This new Microsoft 365 Copilot feature imports data from the web and documents into Excel
By Sean Endicott Published
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AI
Bill Gates: The youth should worry about 4 "very scary things"
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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How-to
Get started with System Configuration (msconfig) on Windows 11
By Mauro Huculak Published
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Computing
Microsoft created a new 'state of matter' to solve the world's problems
By Sean Endicott Published
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Windows 11
Microsoft did not block PCs with older Intel chips from upgrading to Windows 11
By Sean Endicott Published
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Browsing
Microsoft Edge update speeds up the browser's most important features
By Sean Endicott Published
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AI
Elon Musk: Grok 3 is the smartest AI on earth (but it's not)
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Explore Software Apps
Bing
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Search wars
Google responds angrily as Microsoft makes Bing imitate Google search
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Bing Bong
Bing is down, potentially affecting dozens of users (Update)
By Sean Endicott Last updated
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No more
Microsoft will put a stop to this cashback feature in Start
By Sean Endicott Published
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PLS USE BING
Microsoft's 4.5-rated performance optimization tool bizarrely recommends using Bing as the default search engine to 'repair' Windows 11
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Right answer
What is Bing Deep Search, and why should you use it?
By Mauro Huculak Published
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BIG BING
With the help of AI and Copilot, Microsoft Bing has seen an increase of over 40M daily active users compared to the previous year
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Bye Bing!
Begone Bing! Microsoft dials back Bing branding on yet another AI service.
By Sean Endicott Published
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Side-by-side
Google vs. Bing? Why not both? Here's how to use two search engines simultaneously on Microsoft Edge.
By Sean Endicott Published
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Get Fit
Bing and ChatGPT are the best free apps for keeping your fitness New Year's resolutions, here's how to harness AI to improve your health
By Sean Endicott Published
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Browsing
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Browsing
Microsoft Edge update speeds up the browser's most important features
By Sean Endicott Published
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Browsing
Microsoft 'lies' about how to uninstall Edge then seemingly removes page from the web
By Sean Endicott Published
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Browsing
Would you trust AI to change your browser passwords automatically? Google thinks you will.
By Sean Endicott Published
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Browsing
Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls are about to get better in your web browser
By Sean Endicott Published
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BROWSING
Microsoft doubles down on aggressive tactics against Google
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Browsing
Can a browser reduce stress and help you focus? Opera hopes its "mindful browser" can convince you to leave Google Chrome.
By Sean Endicott Published
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Apps
Microsoft stops tricking people into using Bing instead of Google, at least on Chrome
By Sean Endicott Published
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Gaming
Why create a playable version of Tetris within a PDF? 'Why not?'
By Sean Endicott Published
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Software
Microsoft Edge could get a major UI overhaul to match Windows 11
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Cortana
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Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ breach, denies danger of source code leaks
By Robert Carnevale Published
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Lapsus$ claims to leak 90% of Microsoft Bing's source code
By Robert Carnevale Published
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Steve Ballmer tried to name Cortana 'Bingo' before leaving as Microsoft CEO
By Sean Endicott Published
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Microsoft's Cortana no longer integrates with Amazon's Alexa
By Sean Endicott Published
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Today is the last day you can use Cortana on iOS and Android
By Sean Endicott Last updated
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Cortana apps on iOS and Android now warn about their upcoming demise
By Sean Endicott Published
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Microsoft finally gives you control over your voice clips
By Sean Endicott Published
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We say one final farewell to these products and services Microsoft shut down in 2020
By Sean Endicott Published
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Microsoft aims high with AI — these are its current real-world impacts
By Jason Ward Last updated
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Save up to $100 on Facebook Portal smart displays and catch up with family
By John Levite Published
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Facebook Messenger might soon support Chat Heads on Windows and macOS
By Sean Endicott Published
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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram all down right now
By Sean Endicott Last updated
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Buy a Portal from Facebook and save $100 on a second smart device
By John Levite Published
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Buy two Portal smart devices, save $100, and keep in touch with family and friends
By John Levite Published
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Grab the Portal from Facebook for $99 and never miss a video call
By John Levite Published
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FTC takes a second swing at Facebook with amended antitrust complaint
By Sean Endicott Published
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Save $110 and call your friends and family with the 1st-gen Portal by Facebook
By John Levite Published
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Facebook is having a spike in outage reports, indicating it's down for some
By Robert Carnevale Published
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Instagram is down for many across the web, but it is back for some
By Sean Endicott Published
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235M TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube profiles caught up in data breach
By Stephen Warwick Published
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Grids review: An Instagram client for Windows packing serious power
By Sean Endicott Last updated
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Instagram launches PWA in Microsoft Store with direct messaging
By Dan Thorp-Lancaster Published
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You can finally send Instagram DMs on desktop
By Michael Allison Published
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Instagram's PWA appears to be on its way to Windows 10
By Sean Endicott Published
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Winsta review: the better Instagram experience for Windows 10
By Sean Endicott Published
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Instagramming from your Windows Phone
By George Ponder Last updated
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Microsoft says Windows Phone has hit 'critical mass' with latest app push
By Daniel Rubino Last updated
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Maps GPS
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Bing Maps switches to TomTom for base map data
By Sean Endicott Published
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Hands on with CoPilot for Windows Phone 8
By Daniel Rubino Last updated
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Nokia updates all navigation and location apps to HERE branding
By Sam Sabri Last updated
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GPS vs. aGPS: A Quick Tutorial
By Daniel Rubino Last updated
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New Ford mobile app demonstrated
By Rich Edmonds Last updated
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Nokia rebrands mapping and location service to 'HERE', announces LiveSight
By Rich Edmonds Last updated
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Apple apologises for disappointing Maps app, recommends Bing and Nokia
By Rich Edmonds Last updated
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Microsoft sneaks Bing into Apple's App Store
By Phil Nickinson Last updated
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Content Infringement Complaints, Google and the Windows Phone Marketplace
By Daniel Rubino Last updated
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Office 365
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Software
Microsoft 365 is on sale for 40% off
By Sean Endicott Last updated
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Office
Microsoft's dumbest rebrand in its near 50 year history just got even dumber
By Jez Corden Published
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365 FTW
How Microsoft 365 excelled my American football team to back-to-back northern championships
By Sean Endicott Published
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a new home
Final Microsoft 365 Insider blog post marks end of an era... sort of
By Sean Endicott Published
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A few words...
Do you need to buy all of Office or is Word enough?
By Cale Hunt Published
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OFFICE 365
Microsoft's new iOS widget brings recently accessed Office 365 files directly to your home screen
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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After almost a decade, I might just transition back to Microsoft Word after learning about this cool trick that helps retrieve unsaved files manually
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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MERGE
Microsoft might have just taken 'eons' to fix the annoying default paste option in Word based on user feedback
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Almost free
Microsoft Office 2021 Professional Plus for JUST $15.99? A 96% discount seems too good, but this is a legit deal.
By Sean Endicott Published
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Photography
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Photo editing app Luminar Neo now available for Windows through Microsoft Store
By Sean Endicott Published
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Share your photos with family on a Dragon Touch digital frame down to $104
By John Levite Published
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What's new for Photoshop, Illustrator, and all the Creative Cloud apps shown off at Adobe MAX
By Sean Endicott Published
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Adobe Photoshop's improved Sky Replacement makes it sunny when skies are grey
By Sean Endicott Published
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Photo Editor Suite, a simple photo effects app for Windows 10 PC
By George Ponder Last updated
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Use TaoTronics Ring Light for pro-level selfies, Zooming, and streaming
By WC Staff Last updated
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Editing is one of the worst things about photography. Luminar AI provides a solution.
By Nick Greene Last updated
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Adobe Photoshop for Windows 10 on ARM finally arrives in beta
By Zac Bowden Published
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Insta360 action cameras are up to $85 off during this End of Season sale
By Alex Smith Published
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Streaming Video
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DJ CLIPPY
Windows95man drops new track 'Paperclip,' a love letter to Clippy
By Jennifer Young Last updated
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Deals
The best, last-minute Cyber Monday streaming deals for those late to the party
By Zachary Boddy Last updated
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Secret Level
Love, Death & Robots creator reveals new gaming-themed anthology series for Prime Video during Gamescom Opening Night Live
By Cole Martin Last updated
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Google cash
YouTube reportedly offering "lumps of cash" to major recording labels to train its AI models with huge libraries of music
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Ads galore
Is Google's big push for its YouTube Premium subscription and crackdown on ad blockers why I'm seeing more ads than ever before?
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Streaming deal
Peacock is just $1.99 a month for a full year right now — If I wasn't already using this streaming service every day, I'd jump all over this amazing deal (UPDATED)
By Rebecca Spear Published
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SUBOPTIMAL
"Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using," Google explains after uproar from Firefox users over a 5-second delay when loading YouTube
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Smart and simple
Elgato's new teleprompter looks perfect for streamers and content creators
By Sean Endicott Published
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IT'S UP!!
Disney Plus subscription plans spike in price, ad-supported plans are unaffected
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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AI
Generate a "Spotify Wrapped" style 2024 recap for your Twitter/X account with this free AI tool
By Zac Bowden Published
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MORE SPACES
After Elon Musk and Trump's glitchy Spaces interview, X tests new video conferencing tool: "Already a strong alternative to Google Hangouts and certainly Microsoft Teams"
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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CENSORSHIP
Elon Musk says 'Grok is the most fun AI in the world': "It's the most based and uncensored model of its class yet"
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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more carnage
Elon Musk’s X could lose 4% of its global annual turnover for "quietly" training Grok using data from 60 million users in the EU without consent
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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DO BETTER
Elon Musk calls Grok 'the most powerful AI by every metric' but 'secretly' trains the new model with your X data by default
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Pay to play
Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter): Want to post and interact? That'll be $1, please.
By Colton Stradling Published
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Thread me
Meta's 'Threads' reaches 100 million users, and now you can follow us there too
By Zac Bowden Published
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1995 again
Mastodon reminds me of the early days of the internet. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
By Daniel Rubino Published
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How to delete a Twitter account
By Sean Endicott Published
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WhatsApp for Windows lets you get cheeky by allowing you to share ephemeral photos and videos (but with a catch)
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Third-party chats
Meta caves to EU pressures with an apparent cross-platform messaging feature for WhatsApp
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Switching to Telegram before everyone else was a lonely messaging experience
By Rich Edmonds Last updated
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New WhatsApp beta UWP release now has archived chats feature
By Robert Carnevale Published
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WhatsApp may increase maximum file transfer size to 2GB
By Sean Endicott Published
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Latest WhatsApp beta UWP release features new emoji utility
By Robert Carnevale Published
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WhatsApp Beta gains dark mode in latest update
By Sean Endicott Last updated
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WhatsApp Beta appears in the Microsoft Store, including ink and multi-device support
By Sean Endicott Last updated
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Meta and mining collide with new WhatsApp cryptocurrency wallet option
By Robert Carnevale Published
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Windows 11
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How to disable thumbnails on Windows 10
By Mauro Huculak Last updated
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How to batch rename multiple files on Windows 10
By Mauro Huculak Last updated
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Windows
Windows 10 update forces controversial new Outlook App on users
By Sean Endicott Published
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Quick fix
How to use DISM command tool to repair Windows 10 image
By Mauro Huculak Last updated
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How to use powercfg to control power settings on Windows 10 and 11
By Mauro Huculak Last updated
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How to mount hard drive as folder on Windows 10
By Mauro Huculak Last updated
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Windows
How to move Start menu to left or center in Taskbar on Windows 11
By Mauro Huculak Last updated
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Windows
Microsoft will retroactively downgrade this part of Windows 10 next month
By Sean Endicott Published
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Versus
Office 2024 vs. Microsoft 365: Which should you buy?
By Mauro Huculak Last updated
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Windows 11
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How-to
Get started with System Configuration (msconfig) on Windows 11
By Mauro Huculak Published
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Windows 11
Microsoft did not block PCs with older Intel chips from upgrading to Windows 11
By Sean Endicott Published
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Software
How to install WSL on Windows 11
By Richard Devine Last updated
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Software
How to remove a Linux distro from WSL
By Richard Devine Last updated
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Podcast
Windows Central Podcast: The life and death of HoloLens
By Zac Bowden Published
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How-to
How to use Disk Quotas on Windows 11
By Mauro Huculak Published
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Windows 11
Windows 11 update adds Studio Effects icon, taskbar enhancements, and security fixes
By Sean Endicott Published
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Skip
How to set up Windows 11 without a Microsoft account
By Mauro Huculak Last updated
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Windows
Bill Gates: I might hide from the press if Microsoft traded Windows 11 for Windows 10.
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Windows 8
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DOZENS OF US!
Steam drops support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, dozens of PC gamers affected
By Sean Endicott Published
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Windows
Windows 8.1 officially reaches end of extended support
By Sean Endicott Published
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Windows
Ex-Windows chief shares early concept ideas for Windows 8
By Sean Endicott Published
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Microsoft issues full-screen warning about Windows 8.1 end of support
By Sean Endicott Published
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Windows 8.1 users will start seeing 'end of support' warnings soon
By Zac Bowden Published
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The end is near for the OneDrive desktop app if you're not on Windows 11 or 10
By Robert Carnevale Published
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Windows 8.1 MSN apps to be discontinued on June 3
By Dan Thorp-Lancaster Published
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Surface Pro Windows 8 tablet once again available at the online Microsoft Store
By Rich Edmonds Last updated
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Windows 8 Phone? No... it's not a typo
By George Ponder Last updated
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Windows 9
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Prominent Hacker, WZor, claims Windows 9 will reach RTM this October
By Michael Archambault Last updated
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Windows Phone 9 in testing with Nokia, HTC and Qualcomm hardware
By Daniel Rubino Last updated
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Microsoft announces Windows 9 event to take place on September 30th
By Chris Parsons Published
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New video shows Windows 9 Notification Center on the desktop
By Sam Sabri Published
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AI
Elon Musk: Grok 3 is the smartest AI on earth (but it's not)
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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AI
DeepMind CEO: DeepSeek's success is "exaggerated," Google leads in AI
By Kevin Okemwa Published
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Apps
Notepad on Windows 11 now requires a paid subscription to use all of its features
By Sean Endicott Published
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