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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Technical Preview Developer Tools

Microsoft has released its first-ever pre-release Windows 10 developer tools, the Visual Studio Tools for…

Universal Apps Will Be Branded as Windows Apps

After fumbling with the Metro branding for Windows 8 apps and then settling on the…

Microsoft Apps Will Be Preinstalled on Many New Android Devices

Microsoft announced today that major Android device makers such as Samsung, Dell and others will…

One Windows, Multiple Form Factors

With Windows 10, Microsoft is pushing the notion of “One Windows,” where previously separate OS…

Lenovo ThinkPad T450s First Impressions

Before the rise of preternaturally thin and light Ultrabooks, Lenovo’s T-series laptops represented the state…

What’s Happening with Windows 10 for Tablets

I’ve noticed a growing disturbance in the Force lately: Irked by my preference for non-Windows…

Windows + Mac: Apple Drops Windows 7 Support in New Macs

Apple is infamous for quickly—often too quickly—dropping support for popular technologies it deems out of…

Xbox Music Tip: Access Your Own Music with Windows Phone 8.1

The other day I wrote about Microsoft finally enabling OneDrive integration with Xbox Music, and…

Windows 10 Minimum Hardware Requirements for PC

Thanks to the documentation that Microsoft provided this week at WinHEC, we now have a…

Windows 10 Technical Preview 2: Snap

The more you use Windows 10, the more obvious it is that Microsoft has gotten…

Windows 10 Technical Preview 2: Continuum and Tablet Mode

With PCs evolving into multi-function, transforming computing devices, Windows 10 will offer two new features…

Windows 10 Technical Preview 2: Build 10041 Screenshot Gallery

It suddenly dawned on me that I hadn’t yet posted a screenshot gallery of the…

Windows 10 Technical Preview 2: How to Install Build 10041

If you were hoping to clean install Windows 10 build 10041, well, you can’t. Unfortunately,…

Sorry, Microsoft is Not Giving Free Windows 10 to Pirates

A Reuters report earlier this week clearly stated that Microsoft planned to tackle software piracy,…

Microsoft is Changing the Edge Gestures in Windows 10

Windows 8+ supported edge gestures that were triggered by the user swiping in from one…

Microsoft is Enhancing Precision Trackpad Support in Windows 10

With Surface Pro 3, we were introduced to the notion of a “precision trackpad,” which…

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