A few tidbits from around the web: New Dropbox mobile app on Windows 10, updates to Office on iOS, Brave new web browser will "fix the web," Google Cultural Institute looks pretty amazing, and heart rate is more important than steps.

Mobile devices---and smart phones in particular---are only as good as the apps you use. So here are my favorite and most-useful/most-used mobile apps of 2015.

The smart phone is the most important personal computing product of the year. So let's start my annual peek at the best tech products right at the top.

Updated for 1511, this is the only Windows 10 guide you need, a collection of the how-to articles I am writing about Microsoft’s greatest OS release ever.

What else is happening today? Microsoft Movies & TV picks up SRT subtitle support, Google engineer takes on shoddy USB-C cables, Google Maps on iOS, more.

Happy weekend. What else is happening today? Steve Ballmer comments on Microsoft v. Apple, maybe Halo 5 will ship on the PC, and Pandora talks Apple Music.

Surface Pro 4 may look like Surface Pro 3, but it improves on everything that needed to be improved while carrying forward with what was already magical.

Here's what's happening today: Yet another controversial change to Windows 10, misunderstanding Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade mistake, the new Nexus phones.

Microsoft markets Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book as premium devices, but they're missing a few forward-leaning features. And the most problematic is USB-C.

Surface Pro 4 features a bigger screen, a thinner and lighter body, better RAM and storage options, improved pen and Type Cover, and Windows Hello options.

For the past month, I've put my beloved but aging Lumia 930 aside and have lived life on the other side of the fence. Up first: The Moto X Pure Edition.

Google's newly-announced Chromecast and Chromecast Audio arrived at Chez Thurrott this afternoon, so I set them up and gave them a quick run. So far so good.

Yesterday, my custom-designed Moto X Pure Edition arrived, and I spent much of yesterday afternoon installing apps and otherwise moving to the new phone.

At IFA in Berlin this morning, Acer announced a coming Windows 10 Mobile handset and a Continuum dock that will turn that handset into a lightweight PC.

Mozilla’s Firefox 40 looks great on Windows 10, But If you are going to use Firefox on Windows 10, here are some tips for making it work even better.

After two straights weeks of mammoth Microsoft conferences—the developer focused Build 2015 in San Francisco last week and the inaugural Ignite 2015 in Chicago this week—my mind is of course turning to the next big thing for the Redmond computing giant. And while there are certainly more trade shows—’tis the season, after all—and major software…