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Microsoft has releasedKB4469342 for Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The cumulative update was released to Windows Insiders onRelease Preview Ring earlier and is now rolling it out to all the users....

While the Windows 10 April 2018 update was part of a massive beta test using the Windows 10 Insider programme, it seems some serious issues still slipped through.The latest one to come to our attention is pretty serious and involves Explorer.exe crashing every 3-5 seconds, rendering a user’s machine more or less unusable.The issue appears related to the new ...

It’s not just you, Microsoft has confirmed that Azure Active Directory service is down for many users around the world. This issue affects Azure users in Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, however Azure Govement users are not affected from this outage.Users in these regions may experience difficulties when attempting to authenticate into resources which ar...

The new build Windows 10 Preview Insider Build v17112 has been released by Microsoft to the Fast Ring.Rather than new features, the update appears to be bringinga number of fixes, but also known issues, which are enumerated as below:We fixed an issue where selecting a notification after taking a screenshot or game clip opened the Xbox app’s home screen ins...

Lenovo today aounced that they arevoluntarily recalling some ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Generation laptopsin the interests of public safety.Lenovo has found that someThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Gen laptops may have an unfastened screw that could damage the laptop’s battery causing overheating, potentially posing a fire hazard.Lenovo’s investigation and analysis determined that an unfastened, small screw, left in the unit during manufacture, could damage the surface of the lithium ion polymer battery and cause a short, leading to rapid cell discharge of the battery. This defect has led to three failures in the field.Lenovo has not received any reports of a fire.It is important to note that not all Thi...

Microsoft has pushed out an update to the Outlook for iOS app which brings a number of improvements, focussed on the area of search.Microsoft says Search is now front and centre, with its own tab with a new simplified navigation bar.The full changelog reads:A brand new spot for your search icon, at the bottom of the app. Tap on it to get direct access to your top contacts, upcoming travel itineraries, package deliveries and recent attachments.Search for emails, files, and contacts in any of your accounts from one single search box.Use our new filters to narrow down your search. Focus your search on a single account from the menu inside of the search bar or sort your results to only show emai...

I came to know about this neat little feature in Outlook for iOS app. You can now set Microsoft Edge as the default browser to open links inside Outlook app.Safari, despite being the default browser for over billion iOS devices offers very poor performance on older iOS devices. If you own an old iOS device, give Microsoft Edge a try, you will find it much better than Apple’s Safari web browser.Since Apple doesn’t allow users to change their default browser app on iOS devices, browser vendors like Google and Microsoft are forced to work around by having ‘Open links with’ option in all their iOS mobile apps. Have you tried Edge on an iOS device? How does it compare against Safari or any other ...

The patching of the SpeculativeExecution vulnerability has not been going too well recently, with Intel telling users to avoid the patch they released to OEMs as it was causing reboots.Now Microsoft has itself issued an emergency out of band Windows Update (KB4078130) which disabled the patches for the Spectre Variant 2 bug (CVE-2017-5715).The patch addresses the same Intel reboot issue, with Microsoft saying it needed to disable their patchafter Intel admitted that its software was causing “higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior” that led to “data loss or corruption.”The anti-patch patch applies toWindows 7 (SP1), Windows 8.1, and all versions of Windows 10, an...

After much complaints, Skype messaging is once again available on the Outlook.com beta site. The feature was temporarily removed as part of the redesign of the site and was just retued a few days ago. Unfortunately not in the full, at present only chatting is available, but Microsoft promises further development will take place, saying: More improvements to the Skype integration will come in the future, but for now, please enjoy the upgraded Skype chat experience! The non-beta version of Outlook.com, of course, offer voice and video chats, and we can expect these experiences to also be available before the beta site rolls out to regular users. Via Neowin, onMSFT ...

Back in August, Microsoft aounced the new Outlook.com beta with a revamped UI, new features and significantly speedier web experience. Microsoft today aounced the new Outlook.com calendar experience with a similar redesign. This new calendar experience can be enabled using the “Try the beta” toggle on the top right coer. Take a look at the current Outlook.com calendar experience below for comparison. The new redesign looks a lot cleaner when compared to the older one. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. Microsoft has just begun the roll out of this new experience, so it will take some time for it to appear for millions of Outlook.com users worldwide. ...

HP yesterday aounced a worldwide voluntary safety recall and replacement program for certain laptop batteries. These batteries may overheat posing a fire and bu hazard to customers. If you own an affected HP device, it is extremely important to get it replaced from HP. The following table provides a list of HP products affected by this recall. ProBook HP Probook 640 G2 HP ProBook 640 G3 HP ProBook 645 G2 HP ProBook 645 G3 HP ProBook 650 G2 HP ProBook 650 G3 HP ProBook 655 G2 HP ProBook 655 G3 ZBook HP ZBook 17 G3 HP ZBook 17 G4 HP ZBook Studio G3 x360 HP x360 310 G2 Pavilion HP Pavilion x360 Envy HP ENVY m6 11 HP 11 Notebook PC In some of the above devices, the batteries are inteal, which m...

If you have purchased a Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 plus in the Microsoft store, you may have been worried about reports that the battery has some issues when deep discharged. While Samsung’s issues with batteryis not new, these reports won’t blow your device (we aren’t completely sure though). Since last week, the reports went from rare to frequent which definitely drew the attention of the Korean giant. The reports pointed out to an issue wherethe device after the battery had once completely discharged did not tu on again. While deep discharge does sometimes create problems since batteries take longer to recover but they do recover eventually. Unfortunately for Samsung, these reports didn’t s...

The beta version of Outlook.com is already about 100 x better than the regular version, and the team has just added another feature to take it to the next level.Outlook.com beta now features a tabbed user window interface which makes it super easy to reference a number of emails when crafting a reply for example.The tabbed window appears to be the default for the New Email window, and can be accessed for other email by using the Open in New Tab option in the right-click menu.The improvement unfortunately further demonstrates how far Microsoft’s UWP mail app has fallen behind, with less than half the features of their web app.The Outlook.com beta can be accessed by flipping the toggle at the ...

In Microsoft Excel, you can select multiple cells by using Ctrl key. When you use Ctrl to select multiple cells, you can’t unselect a cell if it was misclicked. Instead, you have to select the cells all over again. Yes, there’s no way to unselect cells. If you are a regular user of Excel, you must have come across this situation before. But the good news is that Microsoft is finally fixing this issue.Microsoft today released new Office build Version 1712 (8828.2010) to Office Insiders and it comes with new features and improvements. One of new feature is for Excel, you now have the option to deselect cells that you accidentally clicked without having to start over.For Outlook desktop users, ...

Yesterday, we reported on Apple’s latest MacOS security blunder. In brief, Apple had left an exploit open in the Operating System whereby individuals who gained physical access to any MacOS High Sierra device could bypass the security password by triggering the root account. This led to Apple’s PCs being criticised for such an egregious vulnerability.That isn’t where the story ends, however. Today, the Cupertino based firm issued the following statement to 9to5 Mac, saying:Security is a top priority for every Apple product, and regrettably we stumbled with this release of macOS.When our security engineers became aware of the issue Tuesday afteoon, we immediately began working on an update ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 10 Build 17017 Build to Windows Insiders. It is the first RS4 build for Fast Ring Insiders and it comes with brand new features like Cortana Collections. Many Windows Insiders were facing issues in downloading this build yesterday. The update process got stuck at “An update is being prepared for your device….” stage for some users and c1900401, 80240034, 80070002 errors were shown for some users.Windows team investigated the issue and has now fixed it. The packages that were made available for download were missing a component file that is required as part of the update process. They re-created the packages and re-deployed it to the update servers. If yo...

We reported a few days ago that afterApple started rolling out iOS 11 some users were having issues with their Outlook.com and Office 365 email accounts.Users with an Outlook.com, Office 365, or Exchange 2016 email account were not able to send emails using the default Mail app in iOS 11. When trying to send a mail, users will hit the “Caot Send Mail. The message was rejected by the server.” er...

Outlook’s shared calendars are a great way of sharing and managing a calendar together with a family member, friend, or a co-worker. Outlook’s Shared Calendars have been available on the web and other platforms for a little while, but it’s now heading to Android and iOS for those with Office 365 accounts. Microsoft is rolling out a new update that will enable shared calendars for Office 365 accoun...

Apple started rolling out iOS 11 yesterday. The latest update to the company’s operating system packs a wide range of changes and updates, including a new image file format that’ll help save storage. But if you use Apple’s stock Mail app in iOS 11, you will have some issues with your Outlook.com and Office 365 email accounts.Users with an Outlook.com, Office 365, or Exchange 2016 email account may...

To celebrate the Inteational Pirate Day, Microsoft added a new pirate mode to Outlook.com. Those using the new Outlook.com beta can get access to the new pirate mode which enables “pirate speak” throughout the app. Spam, for example, has been translated to “scum” and Folders are now called “Treasure Troves.”The new pirate mode in Outlook.com is pretty cool, but it’ll probably be gone by tomorrow...