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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 IoT Core Improvements

Microsoft Announces Windows 10 IoT Core Improvements

As part of its Build 2017 announcement tsunami, Microsoft revealed this week that it is improving Windows 10 IoT Core in key ways.

Raspberry Pi 3 is Only Supported with Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview

Raspberry Pi 3 is Only Supported with Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview

I was a bit nervous to see the Raspberry Pi 3 announced with no mention at all of Windows 10. But Microsoft has confirmed that it supports the new kit PC with a free version of Windows 10 IoT Core.

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Windows on Arm’s Last Stand? (Premium)

The consensus in the community is that Windows on Arm (WOA) is doomed, and that this platform will never go mainstream, let alone take over as the primary PC platform. And while I’m as clear-eyed as I can be on this topic, given my years of experience with WOA and the many WOA-based PCs I’ve…

Microsoft Starts a New Windows Core OS Platform Blog

Anyone looking for a little more in-depth information about the underpinnings of Windows will want to check out Microsoft’s newest blog.

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Ask Paul: June 10 (Premium)

Happy Friday! And welcome to a monster edition of Ask Paul with some great questions to help kick off the weekend a bit early. Fit and finish hastin asks: Paul: Why is updating the loading circle so hard for Microsoft? I noticed that even on a clean install of 22H2, there's even more places where…

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Programming Windows: One Billion (Premium)

Confusion reigned in the wake of Microsoft’s consumer-focused Windows 10 event in January 2015. There was a lot of good news, not the least of which was that Windows 10 would be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.x users during the first year of availability. And there was some bad news: Windows RT…

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Programming Windows: 10 (Premium)

Microsoft spent much of 2013 and 2014 correcting the mistakes of Windows 8 via a set of small but meaningful updates. But its best work was yet to come: the software giant would celebrate the 30th anniversary of its core desktop platform in 2015 with a new version, Windows 10, that would go on to…

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Programming Windows: Universal (Premium)

2014 began with exciting news: my sources told me that Microsoft would discuss its vision for the future of Windows at Build 2014, which would be held that April. This vision included a year-off Windows release codenamed "Threshold" that would most likely be called Windows 9. We knew by that time that Microsoft would update…

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Programming Windows: The Product (Premium)

For years, Microsoft had worked closely with its biggest partners to maintain and expand a symbiotic PC ecosystem based on Windows. This relationship was so successful that it catapulted Microsoft to fame, fortune, and infamy. But it required work from both sides, with Microsoft and the PC makers meeting regularly to discuss upcoming technological advances…

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Programming Windows: Ribbonized (Premium)

While Microsoft struggled to make sense of Windows Longhorn in 2005/6, the Office team was busy doing what it always did: shipping the next version of its flagship productivity suite right on schedule. The key to this Mussolini-like efficiency was a Mussolini-like autocrat named Steven Sinofsky, who had come up through the ranks at Microsoft…

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Ask Paul: Friday, December 10 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Let’s kick off the weekend a bit early with another great set of reader questions. Wearables crunchyfrog asks: I know that you regularly review laptops and phones and occasionally wearables, however with things starting to heat up in the WearOS category now that Samsung has apparently breathed new life into the non-Apple side…

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Thurrott.com Top 10 Articles of 2020

It’s that time of the year, so here’s a quick rundown of the top 10 articles on Thurrott.com that were written in 2020 based on engagement. Drum roll, please...

Microsoft Extends End of Service Date for Windows 10 Version 1809

Microsoft is extending the end of service date for Windows 10 October 2018 update due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

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It’s Time to Bring (Real) Windows 10 to the Raspberry Pi (Premium)

The Raspberry Pi 4 is the first ultra-low-cost computer board from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to offer truly PC-like performance. It’s time to turn it into a real PC. Yes, that means bringing Windows 10---real Windows 10---to the platform. For years, the Raspberry Pi platform has come ever-closer to realizing this dream, but it’s always…

The Future of Windows, Vaguely (Premium)

When I launched the SuperSite for Windows, I promised to discuss “the future of Windows, today.” Now, suddenly, that is no longer possible anymore.

Microsoft Confirms UWP is Not the Future of Windows Apps

As I predicted, Microsoft is effectively killing UWP by ensuring that all its capabilities are available to once-legacy app development platforms.

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