During its Mobile World Congress press conference Monday morning in Barcelona, Microsoft showed off a few features in Windows 10 for Mobile for the first time. There’s nothing unexpected here, but it’s always interesting to see things we’ve heard about actually working for a change. It’s not clear yet when Microsoft will release a second…

In the latest episode of Windows Weekly, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley and I discuss Stardock Start 10, Microsoft Band and Health updates, Outlook.com is losing Facebook Chat and Skype Chat support, Microsoft opens up OneDrive APIs, VMware is on it’s way to Azure, handwriting and drawing comes to OneNote for iPad, the March Xbox System…

While Miracast was once an unreliable solution for replicating a PC or device screen to an external display, Microsoft’s newer Miracast dongles—in particular the inexpensive Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter—change all that. And I now bring such a device with me on family trips so that we can all enjoy TV shows or movies together on…

After a frustrating day of trying to get up and running with Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 for Phones, I was finally able to install it on a single device, a Lumia 635. Here’s a quick peek at what this fledgling new system looks like in phone form, with some comparisons to the corresponding UIs…

Dell announced its back-to-school lineup today, which is a bit odd to consider sitting here under the weight of 6 feet of snow. But the PC maker says it will offer students its best-ever education portfolio ever this fall. And while there’s a stray Android tablet and Chromebook in there, there are of course Windows-based devices…

As you may know, Windows 10 will ship with two browsers: Internet Explorer for legacy business users and a new browser currently code-named Spartan. This new browser is much more efficient and standards-compliant than IE, though it’s not available yet in WTP2. But here’s how you can at least enable its rendering engine in IE…

I wanted to discuss my ideas for building out the content on this site, a plan that is of course evolving according to your feedback. Ultimately, for thurrott.com to make sense, it has to address your needs. So here’s what I’m thinking. Obviously, there will be daily events that guide some of the content here:…

Microsoft on Friday issued the latest Community Technical Preview release for Visual Studio 2015. CTP 5, as it’s called, is not a major update, but it adds new debugging and diagnostics, XAML language service, and ASP.NET 5 features, and various other changes since the last CTP from November 2014. Microsoft provides a complete list of…

Microsoft this weekend updated its Next Lock Screen app for Android, a personalized lock screen replacement that lets you see your calendar, missed calls, email and text messages at a glance, and then act on them without unlocking your device. Next Lock Screen is a Microsoft Garage project: the group seeks to make ideas into shipping products…

Hardware makers such as Microsoft (formerly Nokia), BLU, HTC, Samsung and many others sell various Windows Phone handset models in markets around the world, and your options will vary not only by locale—some phones are only sold in the United States, for example—but by wireless carrier. Additionally, these firms have developed ways to differentiate entry-level,…