Tech giant Microsoft has released a beta version of the updated Cortana app for Windows 10. The new experience features a brand-new chat-based UI that is aimed at giving the user the ability to type or speak natural language queries. The company is testing a new chat-based UI for Cortana on Windows ... Read More »
Microsoft is tweaking how Cortana works in Windows 10. While the digital assistant might be disappearing from the Xbox One, Microsoft is testing a new chat-based UI for Cortana on Windows 10 PCs. The new beta app, which was originally spotted last month, is now available to testers, and it supports text ... Read More »
Windows 10 updates keep coming whether you install them or not. They generally bring a whole host of bug fixes and new features, but they’ve also been known to come with their own share of issues. While we don’t know what possible problems next year’s Windows 10 Version 20H1 will introduce, ... Read More »
Windows 10 has been stuck in a rut. Microsoft has had to issue several warnings in recent weeks and, elsewhere, it has been vague at best and worryingly deceptive at worst. But now the company has issued a new warning and it affects hundreds of millions of Windows 10 PCs. Computers running Windows 10 1803 are now ... Read More »
We are days away from the fourth anniversary of Windows 10’s initial release, which alsomarks the beginning of the “Windows as a service” era. By this time, you’d think Microsoft would have settled on an easy-to-understand set of rules that IT pros can follow for managing updates. Think again. For 2019, ... Read More »
Amid growing concern about the vulnerability of the U.S. election system to hackers, Pennsylvania told election officials they had to upgrade their machines last year. But according to a Saturday report in the Associated Press, though some 60 percent of those systems have been upgraded—at a cost of $14.15 million—many of ... Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO: Software giant Microsoft is killing all of its iconic Internet games including Hearts, Spades, Checkers, Backgammon, MSN Go and Reversi from Windows version XP, ME and 7. The company would be focusing on developing and launching its xCloud Xbox streaming service that would be debuting in October, CNET reported on Friday. “While Microsoft Internet Games services on Windows XP ... Read More »
It is finally official: Windows 10 is getting rid of passwords. What’s more, the move to a passwordless experience has already begun. Starting this week, Microsoft is rolling out a preview build (20H1 Build 18936 to be precise) of Windows 10 to members of the Windows Insider fast track ring ... Read More »
Gordon Kelly of Forbes is at it again, pushing his unique blend of scary words about Windows 10, mixed with an absolutely overwhelming lack of knowledge about the underlying technologies. I thought we had seen the last of Gordon three years ago, when he slinked away after credulously hyping some ... Read More »
Windows 10 continues to be a danger zone. Not only have problems been piling up in recent weeks, Microsoft has also been worryingly deceptiveabout the operation of key services. And now the company has warned millions about another problem. Windows 10 users have been exposed to a worrying new vulnerability STEVE KOTECKI Spotted by the ... Read More »
