Category: Windows

October 16, 2018

Over time a Windows PC will build up a collection of applications that automatically start when you first turn on the PC or laptop. Some of these are useful – cloud syncing services for example, which work best when you […]

October 10, 2018

The new release is currently testing with the brave and fearless Microsoft Insider Program. Yes, the same team of beta testers who didn’t spot it the first time. Alright, to be fair to them, they did spot it, back in […]

October 5, 2018

WELL, YOU can’t say 3 Comments. As ever, the internet is a-buzz with what’s wrong with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, which appears to have slipped through the net into a stable build. Usually though, we’d expect it to […]

October 3, 2018

To kick off its big Surface event on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that the long-awaited Windows 10 October 2018 Update was finally available. The update will begin automatically rolling out to all Windows 10 devices on October 9th, but if you […]

October 2, 2018

A major Microsoft event is underway right now in New York City, and while you might not be able to watch the event live, Microsoft is already firing out major announcements. The first, which we were expecting some news on, […]

October 2, 2018

Windows 10’s April 2018 Update (version 1803) brought various new features and removed some others, but also introduced a bug to many systems that caused an extra drive to be listed under “This PC.” Most annoying of all, the bug […]

October 1, 2018

MICROSOFT could see Windows 10 finally catch up to evergreen Windows 7 by the new year if this months market share figures are anything to go by. The monthly numbers from Netmarketshare show 40.88 per cent of desktop users on […]

October 1, 2018

GOOGLE COULD be planning a major curveball with its forthcoming Google Pixel Slate, one of two rumoured Chrome OS devices expected to launch on 9 October alongside the Pixel 3 range. A commit in Chromium, the open source version of […]

September 25, 2018

From different types of buying, leasing, and hardware “as a service” business models for physically acquiring the PC, to several means of delivering the Windows desktop to a given device, to multiple choices of productivity suites and means of interacting […]

September 17, 2018

Left unchecked, it doesn’t take long for the Windows context menu to become cluttered. Having too many items on the right click menus can be particularly annoying because you can’t use the mouse to scroll through, you have to click […]