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Earlier this week we learned from Microsoft that Windows 10 will be offered in six different editions for home, pro, enterprise and education users. These editions include the desktop, mobile and even Internet of Things versions of the new OS. When Microsoft announced a few months ago that...

In last weeks poll question we asked you to tell us if you preferred the logo from Internet Explorer or the new Microsoft Edge that was unveiled, along with Project Spartan's new name, during Build 2015 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Surprisingly the results were almost a 50/50 split...

A court in Europe has ruled that Microsoft’s Skype logo and name is too similar to the Sky broadcaster. The judgment will prevent Microsoft from registering a trademark for the Skype name and logo design in Europe. This is the second time Microsoft has been involved with a court case with Sky...

Microsoft is being ambitious with Windows 10. Continuum for phones, Windows Hello, HoloLens, and a plan for 1 billion devices running Windows 10 are all new and daring, but the bravest of all is a middle finger emoji. Emojipedia has uncovered a host of new emoji changes in Windows 10, and the...

Microsoft announced the name of its Windows 10 browser last week. While the code name, Project Spartan, was exciting and invoked visions of dominance and strength, the final name Microsoft picked is totally dull and mundane. Microsoft Edge is the successor to Internet Explorer, but the software...

Microsoft stopped actively developing Windows Media Center in 2009, but the company still shipped an unmodified version in an upgrade pack for Windows 8. The software giant is planning to kill off Media Center in Windows 10, meaning any PCs upgraded from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 will lose the...

While Microsoft is planning to launch Windows 10 on PCs this summer, the phone part of the operating system will debut at a later date. Speaking at a media event at Build in San Francisco today, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore explained the company's plans for the launch of Windows 10. "Our phone...

Microsoft originally commissioned English musician Brian Eno to create the startup sound for Windows 95. Eno’s piece of music was known widely as the Windows sound. At just over three seconds long, it became an iconic sound as Windows 95 grew in popularity. Microsoft has since changed its...

Microsoft is unveiling a new lock screen for Windows 10 today that will change over time and customize itself based on how each person uses their computer. The new lock screen is optional, but if you do enable it, you'll see something a lot like the Bing homepage: a beautiful image provided by...

Microsoft has been demonstrating all its new changes in Windows 10 during the Build developers conference this morning, and now the company is ready to provide a new update for testers. Windows 10 build 10074, which leaked out recently, is now ready to roll out officially. It’s the first...

Microsoft stripped out Aero Glass — a transparent and blurry glass effect — from Windows 8, but it looks like it’s making a slight return in Windows 10. Leaked screenshots from Chinese site IT Home reveal that the latest internal builds of Windows 10 include a new blurred transparency effect on...

Microsoft is releasing a new preview of Windows 10 today with some additional features and changes. While a previous build leaked with new Outlook Mail and Calendar apps, Microsoft is providing them officially today in build 10061. Microsoft is borrowing the new swipe actions from its Outlook...

If you've been following along, you know the last Build release of Windows 10 for phones didn't go well for some participants in the Windows Insider program. Some Lumia owners found their handsets would brick during the update. Many more found the latest release to be almost unusable, even if...

When Microsoft issued the latest build of Windows 10, build 10049, to Windows Insiders last week it had two known issues according to Microsoft. As we have heard from our Ring Master, Gabe Aul, on a regular basis one of the risks associated with getting faster builds is they will come with some...

A new build of Windows 10 has leaked and with it comes new mail and calendar apps. As you can see from the image in this post, the UI has been overhauled. It should not come as a big surprise that these apps have been updated as Microsoft has overhauled nearly every aspect of Windows 10. The...

Microsoft is releasing a preview of its Internet Explorer successor, Project Spartan, today. The new browser, which will be the default web experience in Windows 10, is part of an update to the PC Windows 10 preview. Microsoft promised faster builds for testers, and it’s delivering on that...

We heard a couple of weeks ago from Microsoft's Terry Myerson that Windows 10 would be released this summer, which depending on how you define summer, could be anytime between 21 June and 23 September which are the official dates of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. However, is that a...

Over the last few weeks the subject of the free Windows 10 upgrade has been discussed a lot. It has specifically been focused on whether or not non-genuine users of older Windows operating systems should be made genuine through the free Windows 10 upgrade offer. That offer, announced by...

I may have accidentally stumbled into the purgatory of Microsoft online services. It all happened innocently enough: if you're anything like me, you probably set up your Xbox Live account many years ago. Maybe you were even a child or a teenager. And when you were forced to tie your Gamertag to...

The headlines claiming the death kneel of Internet Explorer as a brand ran rampant about a week ago when the head of Microsoft Marketing, Chris Capossela, gave a presentation at Convergence 2015 in Atlanta, GA. In that presentation he told the crowd that Microsoft was looking for a new brand...