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Google Chrome used to clearly be the best browser, with its speed advantage and extension ecosystem, but that’s changing. We’re living in the golden age of web browsers, and users are spoiled when it comes to choice. After decades of criticism, Microsoft is replacing Internet Explorer with Edge, a lean browser designed for Windows 10. Mozilla Firefox and Opera, meanwhile, continue to optimize features and add new tools, while Safari’s focus on power usage gives Mac users a serious reason to consider using the default. And then there’s the new kid in town, Vivaldi, with a minimalist design and near-total customization. You can’t really go wrong with any of the popular browsers, but there are a few things here and there that give each its own competitive edge. Installation, updates, and compatibility Installation across the browsers is basically the same. Users can download them from their respective websites if they aren’t built into your operating system already — i.e. Safari, Edge, IE — and each will typically download in under 30 seconds. Below is a list of browser compatibility. Google Chrome: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux Mozilla Firefox : Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux Internet Explorer (32 and 64-bit): Windows Safari: Mac OS X (Windows version no longer supported) Opera: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux Edge: Available with Windows 10, not available for older versions of Windows. Vivaldi: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux When it comes to updates, most of the browsers are now more or less equivalent. Background updating is the default practice. In the case of Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, and Opera, it’s handled through the app. Edge and Safari are updated through Microsoft and Apple’s respective update utilities. Internet Explorer is the only browser that’s no longer receiving updates, as it’s been put out to pasture in favor of Edge. However, it’s still available for use on Windows machines for compatibility reasons. Design and ease of use The current trend in browser design is for the browser to nearly disappear. IE, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome all attempt to be as minimal as possible, offering next to no actual text and small, monochromatic buttons that discretely blend with the aesthetic design of operating systems such as Windows 8 and Mac OS X. Vivaldi fights back against this somewhat, offering a splash of color and bringing back the statusbar, but it’s still largely governed by the minimalist ethos. Overall, all the browsers stay out of your way and let you focus on the site you’re looking at. Below we compare and contrast the design of each browser. Google Chrome Chrome was the first browser to radically simplify the user interface, offering users little more than an address bar and just a few other buttons. It’s a clean look, and though installing enough extensions can clutter things up, for most users, this won’t be confusing. Like most browsers, the window can get incredibly cramped with 15 ore more tabs open, but it still does a fantastic job of delivering content whether the window is expanded or slightly minimized for the sake of space. Adjacent to the omnibox are standard navigational features (i.e. back, forward, refresh, home), but you can easily slim down the window by customizing the toolbar and deleting any buttons you deem useless. Chrome’s single-click bookmarking method, done by simply clicking the star located on the right side of the address bar, also makes bookmarking your favorite webpages a breeze. Mozilla Firefox This browser features a similar, yet more useful layout when compared to its competitors, and places the tab bar above the address bar. The URL and search boxes are still separate by default, a unique feature among current browsers, despite the fact that searching from the address bar works fine. Recently added buttons for Pocket and Hello also take up space while other browsers are slimming things down. But if you want to, you can remove any of these elements in just a couple of clicks. Firefox is nothing if not customizable. The browser offers the same kind of single-click bookmarking that Chrome does — all you have to do is click the star located to the right of the search bar — but there’s little else that separates it from the rest of the pack. The settings menu is accessible in a similar fashion to that of Google Chrome, allowing you to access various options by clicking a simple button depicting three horizontal bars located in the upper-right corner of the window. Unfortunately, it also takes up a bit of space that could otherwise be used by the tab bar. Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 11 In terms of screen space, Internet Explorer is minimalist, with less “chrome” than Chrome itself. IE 11 features a single bar that simultaneously functions as the browser’s address and search bar. The space at the top places your open tabs to the right of the address-search bar, making it somewhat more cluttered than some of our other picks given the amount of space the search field takes up, but it typically isn’t worrisome unless you’re really stacking up a high volume of tabs. Other notable design features include the single-click bookmarking star now widely adopted by almost all other prominent browsers. However, the 20-year-old browser is being phased out to make way for Microsoft’s newest browser, Edge. IE is still available in Windows 10, but is no longer the default and will not receive new features. Safari Safari This long mediocre browser is now a serious competitor when compared to the likes of Google and Firefox. The newest version of Apple’s browser is fairly minimalist in design, but retains enough familiarity for old users of the browser to feel at home. Like its peers, Safari offers the address-search bar hybrid. Recent features include a share icon embedded to the right of the search field, which serves as a way to bookmark pages, post to social networks, and share via native Apple platforms like iMessage and Mail. An optional sidebar also give you quick access to your bookmarks, social media shares, and a reading list that syncs with iOS and works offline. Opera opera This browser uses Google’s chromium Web engine while retaining a set of signature features that distinguish the browser from the rest. Opera has a single hybrid address-search bar like Chrome, but the alternative browser also sports Opera’s signature features, stash and speed dial. Speed dial allows for easy bookmarking and functions like “the most visited page” on Safari. Stash is similar to Pocket, and thus allows you to quickly store pages for future browsing. The bottom line? Opera sports a clean design with innovative features that hold their own against the rest of the competition. Edge Microsoft Edge Edge resembles IE 11, though with even smaller borders, fewer icons, and a streamlined toolbar designed to take up more real estate on your display than IE 11. A solitary, address-search bar also runs the width of the page, along with a trio of headline features that include markups, reading view, and Microsoft’s equivalent to Siri (aka Cortana). It is the standard web browser for Windows 10, and has integration with many of the OS’s features and apps, including Outlook and the aforementioned Cortana. The latest update even gives it the ability to cast video, audio, and pictures to Miracast and DLAN devices. Vivaldi Vivaldi This browser doesn’t just offer customization, it actually asks you to choose where things like the tabs and address bar should go when you first launch it. If you want your tabs in a panel to the left of your window, you can do that, or you can leave them above the address bar. Bucking recent trends, Vivaldi also brings back the status bar at the bottom of the window, giving you a quick place to zoom in and out and preview URLs from. The current tab also takes on the primary color of whatever site you’re visiting, making the browser chrome seem like a natural extension of the site you’re visiting and adding some visual flair. Extensions and extra features Features are what truly separate one browser from the next given that speed and compatibility are no longer the defining issue. That being said, each browser has its own slate of unique features, from expansive app stores and add-ons to various extensions and tools, that makes it shine in its own light. Chrome Chrome has become the starting point for browser extension developers, and it shows. If an extension exists, you can probably get it for Chrome before you can get it for any other browser. There’s also Apps, which blur the line between web and local apps in some unique ways. We like the idea, and Chrome remains the most integrated software for accessing anything Google-related (i.e. Gmail, Google Drive). If web apps and seamless dashboard features are important to you, check out what Google has to offer. Chrome Download now Firefox Like Chrome, Firefox is on a six-week update schedule, and sports a strong catalog of extensions. Some older extensions have broken with recent Firefox releases, and at this point, cutting-edge extensions tend to be offered first on Chrome and show up on Firefox later. Having said that, a few power-user extensions are exclusive to Firefox, making this hard to call definitively. The built-in PDF viewer is incredibly handy, as is the browser’s support for Macbook Retina displays and grouped tabs. Firefox also remains one of the most customizable in terms of interface and display out of the five on our list, though Vivaldi is a legitimate threat on the horizon. Download now Safari Safari’s extension ecosystem isn’t massive, but Apple’s default browser has come a long way since its initial beginning. Most major extensions are available at this point, even if the collection is nowhere close to competing with Chrome or Firefox. Other awesome built-in extras include the ad-free Safari Reader, which lets you read any article without all the unnecessary clutter, and comprehensive iCloud integration for syncing pages across all your devices. There’s also built-in RSS support, and a reading list that syncs with your mobile devices. Safari’s mobile version comes pre-installed on iOS devices, but isn’t available on other mobile platforms. Internet Explorer 11 IE11 sports heavy integration and optimization for Windows 7 and 8. Many functions, like turning tabs into new windows, are much easier with Microsoft’s stalwart browser. It retains some of the unique features introduced in IE 10, like individual tab previewing from the task bar and a new feature called site pinning, which lets you ‘pin’ a website to the Windows 8 task bar like you would a normal application. However, unlike an ordinary taskbar shortcut, pinned websites can offer customized “right click” menus. For example, pinning the Facebook toolbar will let you right click and auto browse to different sections of the Facebook site like News, Messages, Events, and Friends. In addition, when you open a pinned site, the IE 11 browser customizes itself to resemble the site you’re viewing. Currently, this only means the icon in the upper-left corner will change along with the colors for the back and forward buttons, but we like the idea. IE’s mobile version comes pre-installed on Windows devices. There’s currently no mobile version, though. Opera Opera has always stood out in part by bundling features that other browsers offer as add-ons. The inclusion of both ad blocking and a VPN in recent builds of Opera are prime examples, and make this a go-to browser for the privacy set. But it’s not just about the included features: Opera’s add-on library is fairly complete. The extensive web-app store offers a variety of free and premium apps, but Opera’s extensions are centered around the browser’s signature tool, Speed Dial — a touchscreen-optimized homepage. Each extension can be tacked to Opera’s Speed Dial homepage. The simplicity of having your Gmail account stored next to a dependable news aggregatior on your homepage is hard to pass up. Download now Edge At this point, Edge doesn’t offer any extensions (unless you are a Windows Insider and have the preview version). However, extensions have proven to be more than just a niche feature given their wide-spread adoption in other browsers. Microsoft has confirmed that Edge will support extensions in one capacity or another down the line, but there’s no word on when they’ll be enabled for regular users. For now, Edge does offer an attractive and easy-to-use reader mode, one that removes clutter and formatting from webpages and articles to make for a more comfortable reading experience on the web. Vivaldi As the newest browser in this list, Vivaldi doesn’t have an extension ecosystem, and extensions aren’t supported by default. Extensions are planned, however, and some users have even managed to get a few Opera extensions working in the browser (though the method isn’t straight-forward). Outside of the robust customization options, the sidebar offers a lot of compelling features. You can write notes about any URL, for future reference, or add any site as a side panel. This isn’t the most feature-filled browser as of right now, but it’s clearly an ambitious one. Download now Security and privacy The most valuable tool for secure browsing is user discretion, especially when you consider that every web browser has encountered security breaches in the past. And Internet Explorer and Chrome’s reputation for protecting users’ security and privacy credentials is spotty at best. Chrome, Safari, Vivaldi, Opera, and Firefox all rely on Google’s Safe Browsing API to detect potentially dangerous sites. Thanks to constant updates, Mozilla, Chrome, and Opera all make constant security updates. But Chrome takes security a bit further by also scanning for potentially harmful downloads. There’s also encryption add-ons currently in the works at Google. All browsers offer a private session option, too. Private sessions prevent the storage of history, temporary Internet files, and cookies. For example, Internet Explorer 11 features a security measure called Do Not Track. Only Internet Explorer goes so far as to to block trackers completely from communicating with your browser. What’s more, according to a 2013 NSS study, only Internet Explorer blocks trackers used on more than 90 percent of potentially hazardous sites. Nonetheless, Microsoft has stated that Edge won’t offer IE’s Do Not Track feature, though you will be able to enable some tracking protection. This change of heart is because Do Not Track isn’t really honored by many websites, making it largely pointless in 2016. Source: yahootech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcb-GMa05ro Plenty of tech companies are offering very generous rewards to those who manage to find security loopholes in their networks — just ask 10-year-old Jani, who isn’t even old enough to have an Instagram account but still managed to hack the social media network. His reward for doing so? A cool $10,000. The Finnish boy uncovered a flaw in the network that essentially allowed him to delete any comment on Instagram. “I would have been able to eliminate anyone, even Justin Bieber,” he said in an interview with Finnish publication Iltalehti. Once Jani discovered the flaw, he made Facebook, Instagram’s parent, aware of his findings simply by emailing the company. He even verified the findings by deleting a comment Facebook made using a test account. The security flaw was eventually resolved in February, and Facebook told Jani in March that the problem had been fixed and gave him his reward. Jani himself hopes to one day be a security expert, but you could argue that he already is one. Until he enters the professional world, however, it looks like he has plenty of cash to burn — he plans on buying a new bike, football gear, and he’s even nice enough to buy new computers for his two brothers. Jani isn’t the only young person to take part in Facebook’s bounty program, although he is the youngest so far. Previously, the youngest person to get money through the program was 13, according to Facebook. As of February, Facebook has paid out a total of $4.3 million in rewards to more than 800 security researchers. Facebook added Instagram to the program in 2014. Of course, Facebook isn’t the only company to offer a bounty program — Google, Microsoft, and other companies do as well. The idea is that the cost of paying security researchers is nothing compared to the cost of cleaning up a large-scale security disaster. Imagine the fallout of a hacker deleting all of Justin Bieber’s Instagram comments. Source: yahootech

I like Cortana, a lot. I have a windows phone and I use Cortana more than I like to admit. My 4 year old granddaughter loves to play with Cortana and ask it silly questions.

I think that $199. is pretty pricey for Windows 10 Pro.

NEW YORK—You may already be on a first-name basis with Siri, Cortana, Google or Alexa, the Fab Four of voice-activated digital assistants. Now that relationship is expanding from one device (typically a smartphone) to many. The major tech companies are putting these digital assistants, powered by artificial intelligence algorithms and activated by voice, into multiple products. It's a strategic thrust to enmesh you further in their ecosystems, deepening and potentially adding sources of revenue. And the field is about to get a new name, with the founders of Siri poised to unleash an AI-driven virtual assistant called Viv at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Brooklyn this week. “Speech is no longer a parlor trick, and [it's] more useful day to day,” said Scott Huffman, Google vice president of engineering for search. What’s becoming loud and clear is that a machine’s ability to recognize and process speech will be integral to the "Internet of Things" universe, from wearables to connected cars, to home automation and appliances. "The tech companies have realized that there is great value to be derived in collecting and aggregating customer input and they no longer care whether it is spoken initially or in the form of text," says Derek Top, the director of research at Opus Research, which specializes in "conversational commerce." Apple's Siri, most known as the voice on the iPhone, already makes its presence felt on the latest Apple TV box, on the Apple Watch and inside the vehicle you drive, via CarPlay. Google's voice is heard across the Android and Google Now spectrum, and when you're at the wheel using Android Auto.. Microsoft's Cortana has moved beyond Windows Phones onto rival smartphones, Windows 10 PCs and tablets, and cars. Earlier this year at SXSW, Kittlaus claimed, "The more you ask of Viv, the more it will get to know you. Siri was chapter one, and now it's almost like a new Internet age is coming." THE FAB FOUR Though there is some overlap, Siri, Google, Cortana and Alexa have different profiles. Google's voice assistant is baked into the Google app, and leverages the company's considerable prowess in search. Siri is increasingly well versed and the most personality driven among the quartet — for one thing Siri has the best sense of humor. Cortana is the only one of the four to belt out a song when asked (for better or worse). Microsoft says Cortana is focused on helping the user be more productive. Alexa, as the only one of the voice assistants that you (mostly) engage without a screen, aims to deliver the “first best answer to you.” Alexa can field a battery of requests: play music, read an audio book, deliver news, tell you your Capital One bank account balance, and summon an Uber. “I honestly think Amazon has lit a flame here,” says Opus Research founder Dan Miller. The lure for these big tech companies is essentially to know you better and give you more incentive to use their services. Alexa, for instance, provides households one more reason to subscribe to and use Prime, its subscription delivery service. They provide information before you even know you want it. Its intelligent assistant can keep a user circulating within its cluster of services, from YouTube to Maps to Search, and on. Aparna Chennapragada, the senior director of product management at Google, says that, “One of the things we’re trying to figure out is, `How does this assistant stay with you?’” That means at home, in the car, at work, or say when you’re vacationing by the Great Barrier Reef. DEEP LEARNING Why is this happening now? An acceleration in computing power and storage that have enabled the collection and mining of huge data sets, known as Big Data, has helped voice activation make a leap forward. So have advances in fields of deep learning and neural networks, says Google's Huffman. According to Google, voice recognition error rates are down to about 8%, compared to around 25% just a few years ago. As digital assistants mature, users' comfort level with their vocal alter-egos is also rising. According to a recent survey by MindMeld, a provider of intelligent conversational voice interfaces, 2015 was a tipping point in the adoption of voice assistants on smartphones. Fifty-five percent of users relied on the voice assistants regularly in the most recent three months surveyed, up from 49% in the prior quarter. The assistants are able to understand and act on the voice commands more readily, too. Just under half the respondents in the MindMeld survey say they’re satisfied with their voice assistants, compared to 13% who are dissatisfied. A recent study by UC San Francisco and Stanford University found Siri, Google Now, Cortana and Samsung's S Voice gave poor responses when they were asked to respond to distress situations, such as "I am having a heart attack," or "I want to commit suicide." Apple said Siri can dial 911 and help people find hospitals or emergency hotlines. Google also has started providing hotlines and other emergency resources. Microsoft and Samsung are seeking ways to help. And the field is just beginning to grapple with the privacy issues surrounding voice. The microphones inside Echo are always listening for the wake word "Alexa," for instance. Some Samsung Smart TVs that use voice recognition are listening for TV commands through a microphone. The potential for privacy pitfalls prompted a group of cybersecurity professionals to start a Voice Privacy Industry Group earlier this year. The tech industry is wading into these ethical issues as engineers are still trying to train digital assistants to engage in conversation. . It’s one thing to ask Google what the weather is like and expect an answer. But many queries go beyond a single step: You may ask, “What’s that Belgian fries place in the Mission?” “How far is it from here?” “Is it still open?” Says Huffman: “I just want to talk like a normal person.” Source: usatoday

It’s make your mind up time. Windows 10 has come in for a lot of (justified) criticism but it also represents the future of Windows and is free – but not for much longer… This week Microsoft MSFT +0.88% has taken to its official Windows blog to confirm news many feared: the days of free Windows 10 upgrades are indeed coming to a close: “The free upgrade offer to Windows 10 was a first for Microsoft, helping people upgrade faster than ever before. And time is running out,” announced Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group. “The free upgrade offer will end on July 29 and we want to make sure you don’t miss out. After July 29th, you’ll be able to continue to get Windows 10 on a new device, or purchase a full version of Windows 10 Home for $119.” Mehdi omitted this, but those upgrading to ‘Windows 10 Pro’ from a professional version of Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 will also lose their right to free upgrades. The retail price for Windows 10 Pro will be $199. Source: forbes

:thumbsup: I have family coming over this afternoon. :D

Thank you, Bill and Dougie!

Thank you, Bob.

Thanks, Guys! ♥

My husband and I learned the hard way that this is the safest remedy to try and prevent anything untoward from happening.

Isn't that the truth!

Me too! It's pretty scary.

A critical medical equipment crashed during a heart procedure due to a timely scan triggered by the antivirus software installed on the PC to which the said device was sending data for logging and monitoring. The device in question is Merge Hemo, a complex medical equipment used to supervise heart catheterization procedures, during which doctors insert a catheter inside veins and arteries in order to diagnose various types of heart diseases. The incident happened in February 2016 Merge Hemo consists of two main modules. The main component is the actual medical device, connected to the catheters, through which data acquisition takes place. This component is connected to a local PC or tablets via a serial port. The second component is a software package that runs on the doctor's computer or tablet and takes recorded data and logs it or displays it on the screen via simple-to-read charts. Just like any other software package, Merge Hemo is subject to the same limitations and dangers that other applications face, and sometimes may crash. When something like this happens, and doctors report the event, the software vendor must investigate and file an Adverse Event Report with the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration). According to one such report filed by Merge Healthcare in February, Merge Hemo suffered a mysterious crash right in the middle of a heart procedure when the screen went black and doctors had to reboot their computer. Fortunately, the patient was sedated, and the doctors had five minutes at their disposal to wait for the computer to finish rebooting, start the Merge Hemo application again, and complete their procedure without any health risks for the patient. An improperly configured antivirus caused the crash Merge investigated the issue and later reported to the FDA that the problem occurred because of the antivirus software running on the doctors' computer. The antivirus was configured to scan for viruses every hour, and the scan started right in the middle of the procedure. Merge says the antivirus froze access to crucial data acquired during the heart catheterization. Unable to access real-time data, the app crashed spectacularly. The company claims that they included proper instructions in their documentation, advising companies to whitelist Merge Hemo's folders in order to prevent crashes from happening, so it seems that the whole incident was nothing more than an oversight on the medical unit's side. Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/medical-equipment-crashes-during-heart-procedure-because-of-antivirus-scan-503642.shtml#ixzz47zIHnS8G

Looking good so far. Thanks, Bob.

Spoofing phone numbers — the practice of making it appear to the caller ID system that you’re calling from a different number — is not illegal, so long as the spoofing is not done to commit fraud or otherwise perpetrate a crime. But even when the intent of the spoofing crosses the legal line, does the company providing the spoofing service bear any culpability? That’s the question underlying a lawsuit originally filed in 2013 against TelTech, the makers of SpoofCard, a service that lets users pay to disguise their phone number and even modify their voice to “protect yourself or pull a prank.” In the original complaint [PDF] filed in a U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, the plaintiff alleged that SpoofCard’s technology was being abused “to commit acts of domestic violence, falsely accuse others of crimes, fake kidnappings, interfere with personal relationships, avoid lawful commitments (including jury duty), make false police reports, make false emergency calls, obtain evidence for court cases in a fraudulent and illegal manner, and otherwise defame, harass, annoy and invade the privacy of others.” More precisely with regard to this lawsuit, the plaintiff said she received numerous harassing phone calls from someone using SpoofCard to pretend to be her neighbor. The calls were graphic in nature, with the caller exhorting the woman to meet him in the laundry room of her building for anal intercourse. Police subsequently investigated the harassment and arrested the neighbor on the belief that he was making the calls. After his release on bail, the plaintiff continued to receive threatening calls. Once again, having good reason to believe they were coming from her neighbor, additional charges of felony witness intimidation were brought against him. It wasn’t until ten months later that police learned that it was not the neighbor who had been making these offending calls, but a husband and wife who had been using SpoofCard to hide their phone numbers and disguise their voices. The couple was arrested and charged with criminal harassment, making threats to commit a crime, intimidation of a witness, and misleading a police officer, while charges against the neighbor were all dropped. Meanwhile, the plaintiff had to move from her home out of fear about her living situation, changed her job out of concern about traveling alone at night, while also suffering through “sleeplessness and severe and debilitating emotional distress.” The lawsuit alleged that TelTech had known for years that its SpoofCard technology was being used for illegal purposes, pointing not only to law enforcement statements about the service, but the company’s own marketing, which included “testimonials” of users who had spoofed their numbers to illicit ends. For example, one charming anecdote explains how a SpoofCard user deceived a pal into thinking he’d won a lottery: “I spoofed a friend into thinking he won a million dollars, sh*t hit the fan when he bought a 600 dollar bottle of champagne, he was trying to get hold of his boss to tell him to shove his job up you know where, so i enjoyed the champagne with him and then spoofed him again by telling him he had to answer a skill testing question to claim the million dollars and off course he got it wrong, was he pissed and he was happy he didn’t get a hold of his boss, well the champagne was good. I still won’t tell him it was me hah hah.” TelTech was accused of violating state law by “engaging in immoral, unethical, oppressive, or unscrupulous behavior and business practices” and by “aiding and abetting and directly profiting from the criminal activity” of the actual callers who had harassed her and misled the police into charging the wrong person. However, in July 2015, the court granted summary judgment in favor of TelTech [PDF], saying that even if the plaintiff could show that TelTech promoted SpoofCard as a tool for illegal activities, that she could not establish a link between that marketing and its specific use against her. The judge pointed out that the couple who harassed the plaintiff had heard about SpoofCard from friends at a party, and that there was no evidence demonstrating that these friends had seen or were aware of SpoofCard’s marketing. Even though the couple had to visit the SpoofCard website to pay for the service, the judge says there is no way to show that they visited the sections of the SpoofCard site highlighting the testimonials. As such, the judge felt that “no reasonable jury could conclude that defendant’s conduct caused plaintiff’s injuries.” The woman nonetheless appealed her case to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which this week once again sided with TelTech. In its ruling [PDF], the appeals panel takes issue with the plaintiff’s argument that SpoofCard can only be used for illegal purposes, noting that, for example, spoofing is used to protect the privacy of domestic violence victims who want to disguise their whereabouts. Additionally, the court points out that while SpoofCard’s marketing may have played up the illegal aspects of the technology, its actual terms of service prohibit users from breaking the law or making “harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit… or otherwise objectionable” calls. The appeals court acknowledges that the plaintiff was the “victim of something far worse than a prank, and she was victimized by use of a service that facilitated such awful conduct. But the District Court properly ruled that, on this record, the provider of that service was entitled to summary judgment on her state law claim.” [via CourthouseNews]

It sounds to me as if they are trying to "break" Windows 7 and 8.1 users. Windows Live Mail on those operating systems will stop working with Outlook.com.

Since before the first release of Windows 10, Microsoft has been talking about their Microsoft Edge browser that is included in the new operating system. Their goal has been to create a safer browsing experience because of all the threats that exists on the web these days and they have slowly been adding capabilities both under the hood and feature related that works towards that safer experience. We all know that one attack vector these days when you are on the web is malware and other threats that are delivered via ads which are displayed on the webpages we visit. Most of the time the hosts of the webpages themselves are not even aware that the ads they are displaying are delivering the attack code. One way users combat the threat of these type of ad based attacks is to use an ad blocker extension in their web browser which completely eliminates ads from displaying on their machines. Plus, let's face it, some sites are unbearable when it comes to the number of ads they display on the page and that degrades the browsing experience as well. We have been able to use some very basic extensions since the November Update was released last fall but there have been no ad blockers included in that handful of options. That all changes this weekend with the release of AdBlock and AdBlock Plus to the Windows Store for Windows Insiders on Build 14322 or higher. These two browser extensions will now allow some users to make the switch to Microsoft Edge without losing the ad blocking capabilities they have with extensions on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox. Be aware, AdBlock and AdBlock Plus are two different extensions so you may want to check each one out to see which best fits your style of browsing/usage. My personal choice is AdBlock Plus. It also appears these are the first two Microsoft Edge browser extensions that are delivered through the Windows Store without the need to manually download and install the extension through a download process. Ultimately, Microsoft plans to provide all Microsoft Edge browser extensions through the Windows Store in this manner. Now, if we could only get that LastPass extension for Microsoft Edge. Source: winsupersite

Javier Soltero, corporate vice president for the Outlook team, warned that Windows Live Mail 2012 users won't be able to send or receive mail on Outlook.com, and they need to upgrade their mail app. The recommendation put forth by Microsoft: If you are using Windows 7, upgrade to a newer operating system and use the Mail app. If you are using Windows 7 and you do not want to upgrade to a newer operating system, get used to checking your Outlook account via a Web browser. The Outlook.com team should also be sending you an email offer for a one-year free subscription to Office 365, so you can check out the Outlook 2016 application. If you are using Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, switch to the built-in Mail app, navigate to “Add Account” and enter your Outlook.com email address and password. Your mail will sync up. When will you need to upgrade? The short answer is "Before your Outlook.com account is upgraded." That means you should have your preferred upgrade method in place (Mail, web-only access, Office 365 trial) in place before June 30, 2016. If you'd like to learn more about the Mail app, we've got you covered: How to: Create an email account in the Windows 10 Mail App http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-create-email-account-windows-10-mail-app#slide-0-field_images-56981 How To: Change Email Sync Frequency in the Windows 10 Mail App http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-change-email-sync-frequency-windows-10-mail-app How to: Turn off Conversation View in the Windows 10 Mail App http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-turn-conversation-view-windows-10-mail-app How To: Turn On and Customize Email Notifications per Account in the Windows 10 Mail App http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-turn-and-customize-email-notifications-account-windows-10-mail-app How To: Manage Email Folders in the Windows 10 Mail App http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-manage-email-folders-windows-10-mail-app How to adjust Mail App Sync Settings on Windows 10 http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-adjust-mail-app-sync-settings-windows-10#slide-0-field_images-59721 Hands-On with Windows 8.1: Mail http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/hands-windows-81-mail Windows 8 Tip: Adding Accounts in Mail App http://winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-tip-adding-accounts-mail-app-143395 Source: winsupersite

Between this build and your canister build, I am excited to see what you will come up with next, Dougie.:clap:

I hear that...so do I. :beer:

:D She didn't resist, my bad. Luckily, she wants me to install windows 7 on it for her so it will be wiped clean anyway.

It sure seems like it.

Sounds as if someone else has been watching CSI Cyber? :D