Windows 10

Stardock Curtains is Now Available

Stardock announced today that its Curtains UX customization tool for Windows 10 is now available…

Windows 10 Version 20H2 Inches Towards Completion

Yes, I know it seems early, but today’s release of a cumulative update for Windows…

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The Passing of Wintel? (Premium)

I’m a long-time fan of Jean-Louis Gassée, the former Apple exec and founder of Be,…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Windows 10 Theme Support (Premium)

UWP apps like .NETpad natively support Windows 10’s Dark and Light app modes (themes), but…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Auto Save (Premium)

Today, we’ll implement .NETpad’s Auto Save functionality, which will work nearly identically to the way…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): App Close Confirmation (Premium)

I think I’ve finally found a reliable way to prompt the user to save an…

Most Surface PCs are Not Getting Windows 10 Version 2004 Yet

No, you’re not crazy. Microsoft has not unblocked the release of the May 2020 Update…

PC Sales Rose 7.1 Percent in the Second Quarter

Data from Gartner and IDC shows that PC sales jumped over 7 percent in the…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Text Zoom, App Name, App Icon (Premium)

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

Microsoft Brings Kernel Data Protection to Windows 10

A new Microsoft blog post explains how the firm is now using virtualization-based security (VBS)…

Dell Announces Stunning New XPS Desktop

Taking its design cue from the XPS portable PCs, the new Dell XPS Desktop is…

A Tale of Two Laptops

I’m currently reviewing two laptops, the AMD-based HP Envy x360 13 and the Snapdragon-based Lenovo…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Find/Replace (Premium)

For this installment of our UWP project, we’ll implement Find, Find Next, Find Previous, Replace,…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): New, Save, and Save As (Premium)

With File Open and the Save prompt out of the way, we can move forward…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): File Open and Custom Dialogs (Premium)

In this fourth installment, we’ll get started on file operations and custom dialogs, both of…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): More Settings (Premium)

In this installment of the UWP Notepad project, we’ll implement the non-font user settings and…

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