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It's amazing to me to watch news outlets just now peering into Windows 10 features and having something to say about them. Take, for example, the Peer updating capability of Windows 10. Microsoft has titled the feature Delivery Optimization. We've covered it on WindowsITPro a couple times already. You can catch that coverage at the following links: Managing Windows 10's New Peer Updating Capability Using GPO Windows 10's Proposed Peer-to-Peer Updating is Not New But, now with Windows 10 publicly available for upgrades, the feature is getting some additional focus. Some this week are throwing alarms over the feature – alarms which might be warranted. Peer Upd…
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I am very pleased to be releasing additional expansions of the Microsoft Bounty Programs. Please stop by the Microsoft Networking Lounge at Black Hat, August 5-6, to learn more about these programs; or, visit https://aka.ms/BugBounty. We are raising the Bounty for Defense maximum from $50,000 USD to $100,000 USD. I am also very excited to announce that we are launching a bonus period for Authentication vulnerabilities in the Online Services Bug Bounty.
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The latest news, fast and fresh with USA TODAY for Windows 10
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The latest news stories, photos, and videos you’ve come to expect from USA TODAY are now available in a beautiful way on Windows 10. The new USA TODAY app for Windows 10 is a Universal Windows App that allows you to quickly browse and read stories spanning News, Money, Sports, Life, Tech, and Travel. Flip through the day’s best photos and watch news clips right inside the app. You can pin the app to your Start menu for Live Tile updates throughout the day. And now, enjoy help from Cortana as you navigate news sections. For example, just say “USA TODAY, show me the money!” to Cortana and you’ll be whisked off to the Money section. Staying informed has never been thi…
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The all new Twitter experience, handcrafted for Windows 10
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Connect with people, express yourself, and discover more about the things you love with the Twitter app for Windows 10. Twitter for Windows 10 is a Universal Windows App that features a new media rich timeline and shows you photos and Vine videos. You can also see tweets in Live Tiles right from your Start menu. Free to download from the Windows Store, the new and improved Twitter app for Windows 10 sports a cleaner, more potent perch for sharing and following along. See it quicker with a media forward timeline. Share photos privately and upload multiple photos straight from a timeline. And see what’s happening now on Twitter without being logged in. Get the most i…
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New and updated PC accessories for Windows 10
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Following the launch of Windows 10 last week, we’re excited to announce new and updated PC accessories that take advantage of the latest Windows 10 features and functionality. Don’t forget to download our Mouse and Keyboard Center to further customize your keyboard and mouse settings and take advantage of all Windows has to offer. Wireless Desktop 900: The new Wireless Desktop 900 features a simple, modern design with quiet-touch keys for comfortable typing and easy plug-in-play wireless capability with a 30-foot range. It also comes with an ambidextrous mouse. The Wireless Desktop 900 keyboard features one-click shortcuts for Cortana, OneNote, and virtual des…
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Despite what you may have read, Windows 10 is not spying on everything you do. So feel free to remove your tin-foil beanie. However, Windows 10 could potentially collect a ton of data about you — probably more personal information than any operating system in history. That’s due largely to Cortana, Win10’s built-in personal digital assistant, which collects such information to better serve you. But Windows 10 also collects information to make other aspects of your computing experience more personal. The good news: If that data collection creeps you out, you can turn off all or any of it with a few clicks. It’s not hard, though some of the settings can be confus…
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Microsoft acquires FantasySalesTeam, an innovative sales gamification platform, to help...
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I’m excited to announce that Microsoft has acquired Incent Games Inc., the developer and owner of FantasySalesTeam, an innovative sales gamification platform that’s helped hundreds of companies boost sales productivity, drive revenue and improve CRM adoption through collaboration and team based competition. The benefits of this creative and popular feature will soon be available for our customers to help them incentivize their sales teams to new heights and better results. While incentive programs and contests are leveraged in almost all sales organizations, most suffer from common shortcomings: the same top performers almost always win and the rest of the team tends t…
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Police forces throughout North America are employing video to increase accountability and build trust. These efforts are bound to fail. First they couldn't pick a worse recording method than a camcorder on the chest. Many events will be missed and video flexibility is lost. Using a hand held recorder as one would use a flashlight can enhance video, capture sunrise / sunsets and street scapes, Police Video can be made more interesting to watch. This video needs to be quickly uploaded (unedited) to the net. To accomplish this. Daily video would be played back on a large screen and a Fast forward recording of that uploaded immediately to the host site. 4+ hr…
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Windows 10 has been available for a couple of days, and 14 million machines have already been upgraded. If you're anything like me and you have a custom PC or you just want a nice and clean install of Windows then you'll want to format and start over. Microsoft hasn't been exactly clear about that process, but I've spent the past couple of days figuring out what does and doesn't work. If you want to learn more about the operating system then read our Windows 10 review here. How to clean install Windows 10 If you're on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 Warning: this guide is designed for the technically minded, so if you just want to upgrade to Windows 10 then please follo…
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Let's face it - Windows 10 may not be for everyone. It might be incompatible software, hardware or any other number of things that is not liked but bottom line is they want to go back to the operating system they upgraded from. Well that is easy enough to do in Windows 10 and you have up to 30 days to make the decision to revert back to your former OS. Once those 30 days are up then you will be forced to reinstall your old OS from scratch. Here is how you revert to the previously installed OS. 1. Go to Settings>Update &security>Recovery. 2. Look for the Go back to Windows XX entry which will say either 7 or 8.1 depending on your former OS. …
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Satya Nadella crowns the 2015 Imagine Cup World Champions
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For 13 years, Microsoft Imagine Cup has inspired and challenged student developers worldwide to master new skills, build strong teams and bring entire technology projects from concept to completion. As a company originally founded by students, Microsoft believes in the power of young people connecting with technology to dream big, build creatively and boldly bring their ideas to life. Through our Microsoft Imagine program, students of all ages and skill levels get the world’s best coding tools and online learning at no cost, so they can build their future now. On Friday, a brilliant team of students showed CEO Satya Nadella just what they’re capable of when he crowned …
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Microsoft’s Harry Shum discusses Hackathon and TalkEasy, which helps people with hearing...
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Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Technology and Research Group, says the excitement at last year’s Hackathon inspired him to do his own hack this year. “I thought about what I want to hack on,” he says. “Very often, great products come from the things that people really care about.” For the 2015 Hackathon, he was inspired by his father, who is hard of hearing. Shum assembled a team to develop an app called TalkEasy, which transcribes speech into real-time text to help people with hearing loss communicate. Vanessa Ho Microsoft News Center Staff Continue reading...
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Windows 10 launches, //oneweek Hackathon exercises innovation muscles and Microsoft Imagine...
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Welcome to a jam-packed edition of Weekend Reading, a recap of a very exciting, busy week at Microsoft. Let’s get started! Windows 10 launched worldwide across 190 countries as a free upgrade or with new PCs and tablets, complete with global fan celebrations and a new #UpgradeYourWorld initiative. “We are excited to bring Windows 10 and its many innovations to the world,” said Windows and Devices Group Corporate Vice President Yusuf Mehdi. “Windows 10 is the best Windows ever and was built to empower people to do great things. It has new innovations like Cortana, Microsoft Edge and the Xbox app. It’s fast, more secure and compatible. It’s familiar and easy to use. I…
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You would think changing the default browser in Windows 10 was near impossible with all the discussion around it over the last couple of days. However, in reality it is amazingly easy to change the default web browser in Windows 10 and it takes less than 45 seconds and just five steps to accomplish. Note: You need to install your browser of choice prior to following this process so it is available as an option. Lets get started: First click the Start Button in the lower left corner of your main Windows screen (or press the Start Key on your keyboard then type/search for default browser (1). Next you will see an entry at the top of the Start Menu that says C…
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Windows 10 – The First 24 Hours
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It has been an incredible 24 hours for Windows and our fans. We’re humbled and grateful to see the response to Windows 10. We have seen unprecedented demand for Windows 10, with reviews and customer feedback overwhelmingly positive around the globe. We are doing everything we can to upgrade the world to Windows 10 as quickly as possible over the coming days and weeks ahead. From Sydney to Nairobi to London to New York City, yesterday we celebrated with fans all over the world. We had so much fun seeing your appreciation for Windows 10, we thought we’d share a few of our favorite photos. We also love seeing the response to #UpgradeYourWorld. Thank you for sharing…
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Upgrade your Windows 7 and 8.1 systems to Windows 10 first so that your activation is taken care of. Clean installs can follow afterwards if necessary. ----- It has been a whirlwind 36 hours or so as Microsoft began rolling out Windows 10 in time zones around the world as they hit midnight on 29 July 2015. It reminded me of New Years Eve and how they show footage from those countries as midnight strikes with the fireworks and other events. Social media was like that on Windows 10 Eve as I sat at my computer prepping for the launch here from my home base on the North East coast of Florida. Once midnight arrived here that seemed to be Redmond’s trigger and they …
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Kenya and the ‘nomadic’ Internet open up future of possibilities
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Before affordable Internet access came to Nanyuki, a town of 30,000 nestled near Mount Kenya 125 miles north of Nairobi, Red Cross representative Anthony Kuria had to close the office and walk hours to the nearest hot spot to send an email. He’d often return to a line of waiting people who needed his help. Worse, when the inevitable fire or flood came and families became separated, snail mail and bulletin boards were the best tools Kuria had to help people find their loved ones. Today, thanks to the dream of two rose farmers, a Scottish-born visionary and a partnership with innovators and the local government, Kuria and the Red Cross, along with Nanyuki’s schools an…
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Microsoft flipped the switch on the Windows 10 upgrade right about midnight on July 28, 2015. I know this because my Windows 10 upgrade showed up at that time. I had just flown into NYC, sat through traffic due to a disabled vehicle in the Holland tunnel, and finally checked into the hotel when the upgrade showed up. The upgrade of my Surface Pro 3 took close to 2 hours, so I didn't get to sleep until about 2:30am. It doesn't take this long for everyone – it should only take an hour or so – but I was downloading over hotel Wi-Fi, which is notoriously slow no matter which hotel choose. Even though the upgrade kept me awake so long, I had no issues with the download a…
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When you're trying to find that how-to, hands-on tutorial or FAQ, you don't want to have to scramble through a website's search results to get the information you need. Make your Windows 10 upgrade process and subsequent use smoother by keeping this page bookmarked; we'll be including all our Windows 10-related help here. * Windows 10 Upgrades or New Hardware: The Fine Print — What's the 411 from your favorite hardware manufacturers about both the upgrade and availability of new hardware with Windows 10 pre-installed? We took some time to research some of the top brands that are pretty common purchases and those you regularly find in retail stores. Windows 10 up…
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Choose to use this tool to directly upgrade the machine you are running it on or create installation media. 29 July 2015 means Windows 10 has arrived and Microsoft has made it easy for any users to create their installation media to install the new OS. This means if you understand the terms USB, ISO and installation media then you can jump the reservation line and begin your Windows 10 installation right now. You can access the 32 and 64 bit version of the media creation tool from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 See the screenshots in this gallery for images of the process and what to expect. The following are needed to use these…
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Need a reason to upgrade to Windows 10? Here’s 10 of them
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From great apps to being able to game epically, there’s plenty to love about the new Windows – “the best Windows ever,” writes Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president, Windows and Devices Group. It has new innovations such as Cortana, the Microsoft Edge browser and Windows Hello, while being familiar and easy to use. On July 29, Windows 10 will be available across 190 countries as a free upgrade or with new PCs and tablets. For more details and to get in depth with all the new features, head over on the Windows 10 launch site. Jennifer Chen Microsoft News Center Staff Continue reading...
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Your free upgrade is here: Windows 10 launches with worldwide fan celebrations,...
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On July 29, Microsoft will make Windows 10 available, across 190 countries, as a free upgrade or with new PCs and tablets. “We are excited to bring Windows 10 and its many innovations to the world,” Windows and Devices Group Corporate Vice President Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post. “Windows 10 is the best Windows ever and was built to empower people to do great things. It has new innovations like Cortana, Microsoft Edge and the Xbox app. It’s fast, more secure and compatible. It’s familiar and easy to use. It’s automatically up to date. And you can upgrade for free beginning on July 29.” To find out all about the launch celebrations at special events all over the world, a…
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Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today
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When we first unveiled Windows 10 in September, we outlined our plans for a new era of Windows. We wanted to create a Windows that empowered people and organizations to do great things. Our vision was one platform, one store, and one experience that extends across the broadest range of devices from the smallest screens to the largest screens to no screens at all. For Microsoft, Windows 10 begins to deliver on our vision for more personal computing. In this world experiences are mobile, moving with you seamlessly and easily across your devices. Interacting with technology is as natural as interacting with people – using voice, pen, gestures and even gaze for the right i…
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What is Wi-Fi sense in Windows 10? What are the potential problems associated with the feature? This post will answer these questions and also show you how to turn off Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10, should you wish to. Wi-Fi Sense was first seen in Windows 8 Phones. It has been ported to Windows 10 – both mobile and desktop versions. However, with Wi-Fi Sense on the Windows 10 desktop, there are potential problems or shall I call them dangers? Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense is a feature in Windows 10 that allows you to connect to your friends shared Wi-Fi connections. That is, you and your friends may opt to share your or their Wi-Fi connections. Friends, acco…
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Do one-stop shopping with the new Windows Store
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We’re wrapping up our series of blog posts on awesome Windows 10 features by talking about the new Store in Windows 10, the largest Microsoft-certified, one-stop shopping experience for free and paid digital content for all your Windows devices. Find your favorites fast; the new Store has popular free and paid apps, games, movies, TV shows and the latest music all in one place*. Get apps that work with unique Windows 10 features so you can get more done, faster. For instance, use Cortana,** your virtual assistant, to control apps with your voice*** and get real-time notifications right on the app tile. Acquire content with ease using your preferred payment method inc…