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No, you’re not crazy. Microsoft has not unblocked the release of the May 2020 Update on most Surface PCs, contrary to reports.

Data from Gartner and IDC shows that PC sales jumped over 7 percent in the second quarter of 2020 thanks to COVID-based work from home requirements.

This time, we’ll implement .NETpad’s text zooming capabilities, fix the application name, and add a new application icon.

A new Microsoft blog post explains how the firm is now using virtualization-based security (VBS) to prevent data corruption attacks in Windows 10.

Taking its design cue from the XPS portable PCs, the new Dell XPS Desktop is a stunning and modern take on the tower PC.

I’m currently reviewing two laptops, the AMD-based HP Envy x360 13 and the Snapdragon-based Lenovo Flex 5G. They could not be more different.

For this installment of our UWP project, we’ll implement Find, Find Next, Find Previous, Replace, and Replace All with a fun new custom dialog.

With File Open and the Save prompt out of the way, we can move forward to the other app commands that involve file operations: New, Save, and Save As.

In this fourth installment, we’ll get started on file operations and custom dialogs, both of which occur asynchronously in UWP.

In this installment of the UWP Notepad project, we’ll implement the non-font user settings and a workaround for a UWP weirdism that had me stumped for days.

Intel announced today that it will succeed the Thunderbolt 3 universal connector with Thunderbolt 4, separately from USB4.

Richard Campbell chats with Paul Thurrott about the current state of Windows Desktop, and the cycles that keep recurring.

In this second installment, we’ll use C# to implement user settings related to fonts, word wrap, the command bars, and auto save.

After far too many struggles, I think I’ve finally gotten the UWP version of .NETpad to the point where I can document how I created it. Again.

He hasn’t, but if Panos Panay were to ask me my advice on running Windows, I’d tell him to do what he’s been doing with Surface.

It’s been two years since I last evaluated Windows 10 on ARM application and driver compatibility. What’s improved since then?

Looking for the easy way to customize the look and feel of Windows 10? Here are five apps that I use to make Windows 10 a little more personal.

Like many of you, I had an immediate, visceral, and negative reaction to the news that Edge tabs were coming to ALT + TAB.

Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform, the Lenovo Flex 5G is the world’s first 5G PC, and it promises up to 24 hours of battery life.

Yesterday, Microsoft gave some hope to those who worry it can’t design a nice user experience. It’s time for a bit of perspective.

Microsoft is rolling out a new build of Windows 10 that has a refreshed Start menu and tabs that can be tabbed to.

Delivering on its promise to bring extensibility to the Xbox Game Bar, Microsoft has added support for a store and third-party widgets.

Four weeks after Microsoft began automatically deploying Edge via Windows Update, it is updating its plans to roll it out further.

The latest version of Windows 10, called 2004, is now in use on 7 percent of Windows 10-based PCs out in the world, according to AdDuplex.

An Amazon Prime Video app is now available for Windows 10 in the Microsoft Store. It’s virtually identical to the web experience.

Two weeks after it announced the change, Microsoft is switching the Windows Insider program from rings to channels today.

Microsoft has quietly released a new utility called Windows File Recovery for Windows 10 version 2004 or newer.