The month of May will reveal some new features of the upcoming version of Android at Google’s I/O event. However, Apple will also unveil its next update for iOS at the WWDC in June and, unlike Google, Apple prefers to keep its stuff secret until the official unveiling happens. So ... Read More »
Microsoft notified its users that the May Windows 10 update won’t install on PCs using USB storage or SD cards. The company says it’s blocking the installation on those PCs because “inappropriate drive reassignment” might occur and could impact both external devices and internal hard drives. As a workaround, users will need ... Read More »
Microsoft updated its Surface device family this week, with the introduction of the Microsoft Surface Hub 2S. It’s so big it needs wheels, you really don’’t want to ask how much the external battery costs, but it snaps into focus the efforts Microsoft’s hardware team is making with enterprise customers. Microsoft Surface ... Read More »
DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool that was originally developed in 2005 by Sun Microsystems for Solaris that allows you to attach probes to a running system and get an unparalleled view as to what that process is doing, such as seeing all the system calls that a ... Read More »
Windows 10 just made the most important change in its history, but rewriting the update rules matters for nothing if Microsoft has to keep apologising for the quality of the updates themselves. And it has happened again. Windows 10 has been hit by new update problems which are causing computers to ... Read More »
Anyone can now manually download and install the Windows 10 May 2019 Update using the Windows 10 Media Creation tool which has been found on Microsoft’s servers and is publicly accessible. This tool allows people to create bootable Windows installation media, usually a USB pen drive or DVD, in order to perform ... Read More »
Mozilla is releasing an ARM version of its Firefox browser today for Windows 10. While Microsoft and Google have been working together on Chromium browsers for Windows on ARM, Mozilla has been developing its own ARM64-native build of Firefox for Snapdragon-powered Windows laptops. We got an early look at this version of Firefox late ... Read More »
Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 May 2019 Update to Release Preview ring testers today. This update is the next major release of Windows 10, and will be available to Release Preview ring testers ahead of a broader rollout next month. Microsoft is being more carefulwith its last-minute testing, after the previous October ... Read More »
Windows 10 has a serious upgrade problem which is getting worse. But now Microsoft has taken decisive action in the most welcome and unexpected of ways… Microsoft is giving all Windows 10 users control over updates STEVE KOTECKI In a new blog post titled “Improving the Windows 10 update experience with control, quality and transparency“, ... Read More »
Microsoft’s Windows 10 October 2018 update is finally ready… in 2019. After a long, bumpy road, Win 10 version 1809 is launching next month, Microsoft says. “Based on the data and the feedback we’ve received from consumers, [manufacturers], [software vendors], partners and commercial customers, Windows 10 version 1809 has transitioned to broad deployment,” ... Read More »
