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Netmarketshare has released its market share report for June 2020.In this month’s report, Windows 10’s share is 58.93%, up from last month’s 57.83%.  Windows 7 share continues to decline from 24....

Back in March, Microsoft aounced a major reorganization inside the company with changes to its executive leadership and the formation of twonew engineering teams. Last month, we reported on some morereorganization news. Last night, Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet reported another round of reorganization within Microsoft. She reported two key changes:Edge develo...

Features that Xbox Insiders have been enjoying for weeks are finally begiing to roll out today for everyone with Xbox’s April update.Xbox users will now have more video and display choices at their disposal. First up is auto-low latency mode (ALLM). If you’re playing on a TV that supports ALLM, your Xbox will notify your display when you are playing a game...

The best feature of the Microsoft Store is the security of having your apps curated and checked, meaning it is a much safer source of applications.The second best feature is that apps are automatically updated, without needing a constantly ruing background updater in your system tray.Now a new feature of Windows 10 RS4 App Installer means this feature will...

[embedded content]Microsoft today aounced several new SharePoint pages and news capabilities across Office 365. Microsoft has now added the ability to create news from SharePoint home in Office 365.Users can just click Create news button in Office 365 SharePoint home page and choose where they want to publish the news. Once they select the site, they will...

Steam’s Hardware Survey numbers are out for February, and while they are useless for PCs at present, they do give us a look into the market share of the various VR headsets, due to Steam’s cross-platform support and attractive library of VR games and other applications.This month’s numbers, for February 2018, show slow growth for Windows Mixed Reality device...

After a brief beta testing period, Larry Hryb has aounced that party chat is now available through the Xbox app on Android and iOS mobile devices.As...

You can now save up to $650 on popular Lenovo Yoga devices in the US. Some of the Yoga models included in this sale include Yoga 920, Yoga 910 and Yoga 720 13-inch. These devices offer incredible value when compared to Microsoft’s Surface lineup. For example, the new Yoga 920 with 8th gen Core i7 processor, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and 4K display costs only $1799. If you configure a similar spec Surface Laptop from Microsoft, it will cost you around $2,699! Find some of the available deals below.Yoga 720 13″ With Pen:8th Generation Intel Core i7-8550U Processor (1.80GHz 8MB)13.3″ UHD IPS AntiGlare Multitouch (3840×2160) with integrated camera16.0GB DDR4 2133 MHz (Onboard)1TB PCIe SSDDeal price: $1,...

We first saw evidence of Microsoft’s app-specific preview program with the Photos app, and now it appears Microsoft is rolling out the feature to other core applications, such as the Camera,Alarm and Clock and other apps.The feature means individual Windows 10 Insiders will be invited to test updated versions of the apps and provide feedback, without a wide semi-public rollout program.“You’ll be one of the first to try out new features in the preview version of Camera, and your feedback will shape the future of the app,” the invitation to the Camera Preview reads.The new phase of the program could mean Microsoft can iterateon applications more rapidly and separate from new builds of Windows,...

The lack of meaningful applications in the Microsoft Store is its biggest issue, making it rather surprising that Microsoft is demanding that developers remove their application from the store.That is however exactly what is happening, as Microsoft is demanding companies remove their app from the store if they have the word windows as part of the name.Victims of the policy have included WindowsArea.de and DrWindows, who both have apps in the store, some of them since 2012.It is ironically Microsoft’s biggest fans who are affected, and some wonder whether Microsoft will next assert copyright on the Windows name when it forms part of the name or URL.Once again it seems Microsoft’s policies are...

As Windows phone’s market share crumbles, banks around the world have pulled support from the platform.Nubank Brazil is one of the recent ones, reaching out to users to let them know that support for the banking app is EOL, meaning that it is likely to be pulled and rendered non-functional in the coming weeks.Meanwhile, in Turkey, the bankTürkiye ?? Bankas? A.?. communicated to its users via email from the 21st of March 2018, they’ll be unable to login to their bank account via the Windows phone app.Users in both cases are advised to use more mode mobile platforms like iOS and Android or use the web app.The reasons for this are obvious, and need not be rehashed in any detail. Windows phone d...

[embedded content]Yesterday, February 9th was the 5th aiversary day of Surface Pro device. Surface Pro device has come a long way since then, from being a powerful 2-in-1 tablet to a true laptop replacement. Panos Panay, Corporate VP of Devices at Microsoft and Steven Bathiche, the creative power behind many of the core Surface technologies shared their thoughts on Surface Pro device last night. Watch the video above.Here’s what Panos Panay posted regarding Surface Pro’s 5th aiversary,In the five years since we launched Surface Pro a lot has changed, but at the same time much has stayed the same. It’s incredible to me that most of the people that worked on the original Surface Pro are still ...

Microsoft today released the preview of the February feature update for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows 10 Mobile devices. With this v17.9029 update, you can easily find out who has edited your presentation and what changes they’ve made by checking out the slides that have a green highlight.What determines whether changes are highlighted:This feature works on shared documents stored in OneDrive and SharePoint.Changes are highlighted only when the person who makes the change is using PowerPoint 2016 version 8403 or later.Changes aren’t highlighted if revision data has been tued off for the document in the Trust Center Privacy Options:If you are an Office Insider, you can download thes...

Microsoft’s share price is hitting new highs today ahead of eaings, closing at $94.06 and rising further after hours.Analysts have been upgrading the company pre-eaings, with Barclays analyst Raimo Lenschow predicting gaming as being a significant eaings driver due to Microsoft’s Netflix for Games subscription push and set a price target of $100 per share.Even more optimistic is Canaccord Genuity Group Inc., who sees increasing value in Microsoft cloud and Office subscription business, and who predict Microsoft’s market cap will appreciate by 10-20% every year, hitting a market capitalisationof $1 trillion by 2019“If you believe, as we do, that it is reasonable to expect MSFT to appreciate b...

Microsoft recently aounced a new simplified experience that will allow enterprise users to easily sign into all their Azure AD-coected applications. Previously, The My Apps portal was the single centralized location for users to launch their Azure AD-coected applications. Now, Microsoft has released an updated My Apps browser extension for Edge, Chrome and Firefoxbrowsers through which users can sign into password-based single sign-on applications by navigating directly to the sign-in page for the application.Users can click the browser extension icon, select an app, and be signed into the app without navigating to the My Apps page. When they click this button, they’ll also see shortcuts to ...

Microsoft has released updates for Office Mobile apps on Windows 10 devices including tablets and phones. This latest update takes the apps to version 17.9001 and bring the followingimprovements:WordQuick editing of equations: Word now supports the creation and editing of equationsExcelUpdating PivotTables and more: If you already have PivotTables, you can update, sort and filter data directly on your device (requires Office 365)PowerPointCorrection of minor bugsYou can download the Office Mobile apps from the Microsoft Store.Via Plaffo.com...

It’s rather hard when your biggest success is also your biggest millstone, but for Microsoft the x86 Win32 platform has been both their biggest blessing and biggest curse, leading to their ubiquitous presence in every office and most households around the world, and also leaving them with an insecure platform which is difficult to monetize and manage.Microsoft has been trying since Windows 8 to move Windows users onto a more controlled platform, but efforts like Windows RT and Windows 10 S have invariably floundered due to the lack of power offered by the Windows Store when compared to the estimated 8 million Win32 apps available easily and often freely on the inteet.Microsoft is not well kn...

Microsoft today released an update for Groove Music app in Microsoft Store for Insiders in the Fast Ring. This update brings the much-awaited Equalizer feature. Users can access the equalizer from the Settings page. Microsoft is offering several presets like Flat, Treble Boost, Bass Bost, etc for users to choose from. Users can also select their preferred sound levels using the Custom preset feature. Microsoft is also workng on visualizations for Groove app. Hopefully, they will release it soon for public testing. Download the updated app here from Microsoft Store. Thanks to Leo for the heads up. ...

Back in September last year, Slack aounced a new brand new feature called Shared Chaels which coects two separate organizations, creating a common chael for both sides to make use of Slack’s features and platform integrations when working together. Shared Chael differs from Guest Access which keeps admin control limited to one party. While Microsoft Teams, Slack’s primary competitor is still working on full Guess Access feature, Slack today aounced a major update to its Shared Chael feature. Read about it below. Slack’s new Private Shared Chaels will allow organizations to have collaboration with others involving classified information. With the new feature, admins can now choose whether a ...

Microsoft yesterday released a preview of the January 2018 feature update for Office Insiders on Android devices. This Build 16.0.9001.2005 comes with a couple of new features. First, Word for Android now supports writing and editing math equations. Users can now write their math equations in linear format, for example like a2+b2=c2 and Word will convert it into professional display format a²+b²=c². Second, users can now easily find out who has edited the PowerPoint presentation and what changes they’ve made. This can be done by checking out the slides that have a green highlight. You can download the latest update from Google Play Store. ...