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Category Archives: MSFT
Project HoloLens: Our Exclusive Hands-On With Microsoft’s Holographic Goggles | WIRED
It’s the end of October, when the days have already grown short in Redmond, Washington, and gray sheets of rain are just beginning to let up. In several months, Microsoft will unveil its most ambitious undertaking in years, a head-mounted … Continue reading
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Microsoft Has Ended Free Tech Support and Feature Updates for Windows 7
Unlucky for some: It’s January 13, 2015, and that means the end of free support for Windows 7. That doesn’t mean your computer is going to automatically stop working, but it does mean Microsoft will no longer offer free help and … Continue reading
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Microsoft makes Office for iPad free to use, starts testing Android tablet version
Considering how popular Office has been on the desktop, you’d assume it’d be the go-to productivity suite on mobile too. In fact, though, the company has made a few missteps: The iPhone app is watered down, and as nice as … Continue reading
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Get Office products FREE for Students
Get Office free from your schoolOffice 365 Education for Students is available for free to students who are enrolled at qualifying schools. Install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs and on other mobile devices, including Windows tablets and … Continue reading
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Leaked Windows 9 screenshots hint at a redesigned desktop
Slowly but surely, we’re starting to get a clearer idea of what the next version of Windows will look like. Microsoft already teased a classic-style Start Menu, while ZDNet’s usually-reliable Mary Jo Foley has reported that the Charms Bar might … Continue reading
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Microsoft won’t leave XP out of today’s major Internet Explorer security update
Late last week Microsoft announced that it had discovered a serious security flaw in Internet Explorer (versions 6 through 11!) that left users vulnerable to attack. Nefarious characters could use malicious sites to infect a target machine and even take … Continue reading
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The Downsides of Storing Files on Your Desktop
Your desktop is a convenient place to store a few files, but it isn’t always the best. PC World explains why. This is a pretty common practice—if you don’t do it, you probably know someone who does—but PC World says … Continue reading
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Photographer reveals the secret of the Windows XP desktop image
Charles O’Rear is the photographer who took Bliss, the image that became the desktop of every single Windows XP computer in the world. Billions saw it and probably think the photo is so perfect and colorful that it is computer … Continue reading
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Seven Safety Tips for People Sticking with Windows XP
Everybody panic! On Tuesday, April 8, Microsoft will stop “supporting” Windows XP. If you’re still using a computer that’s running this old operating system, you do have options. I covered them very recently: Still on Windows XP? Here’s Some Bad Advice. … Continue reading
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XP’s retirement will be hacker heaven – Computerworld
Computerworld – Cyber criminals will bank their Windows XP zero-day vulnerabilities until after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April, a security expert argued today.Jason Fossen, a trainer for SANS since 1998 and an expert on Microsoft security, … Continue reading
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