The big news—actually, the only real news—in Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 build 10049 is the long-awaited inclusion of “Project Spartan,” Microsoft’s new web browser. Having finally installed the new build in a marathon session that involved both physical and virtual machines, I spent part of last night tooling around in Spartan to see what…

IDC this week is reporting that Android and iPhone combined to control 96.3 percent of the smart phone market in 2014, a stunning one-two punch that left little room for Windows Phone. Yes, Microsoft’s smart phone platform handily out-performed BlackBerry, Firefox, Sailfish and the rest, but it is at best now an also-ran in smart…

Whether you’re using my Clean PC principles or not, after you reinstall Windows, you need to reinstall all of your applications. And while this can be a time-consuming process, you can automate much of it with a handy little utility called Ninite. Looking at my own normal application install-set, what I see are several applications…