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In reply to Buzzmodo:It's mad that the Office desktop apps *still* don't integrate with the new Wind

In reply to Garrett:You can always add it "as an app" - click the ellipsis, then apps, and choose "add site as

The Outlook for Mac app looks wonderful, I wish the default Windows 10 mail/calendar/people apps were like thi

Am I the only one who finds it creepy he was just filming this person using their phone and zooming in on thei

Since discovering it (as ever, Microsoft don't make these things easy) earlier this year after transferri

Surely just alphabetical order would suffice?

I'll admit that the determination to have a local account with Windows 10, especially for home users, con

Back in the day of the outlook.com 'gold rush' I snapped up a [email protected] address but it

The calendar tile will show upcoming events, just long press on the tile, choose edit, and it gives you many o

A real shame with the resolution, everything else sounds great - it's seemingly becoming more and more di

Hmm, Windows 8.1 was a pretty great tablet OS (other than when you ran into the desktop), but Windows 10 is ab

If the new iPad Mini supports the pencil I'll be very tempted to pick one up - the lack of a decent small

In reply to maethorechannen:See that's quite interesting, over the past few years I'm noticed a lot

In reply to maethorechannen:That would be because political affiliation is an explicit choice, everything else

It doesn't matter how many times I click "no" when Google pushes me to install Chrome on their search pag

I had to reset the app and re-connect it to my phone to get messages to work but now it's hooked up it�

Some great features there, and a number of them I hadn't realised weren't already native in Android

I've had a *lot* of fix updates to my SP4 the past week or so. I actually thought the mouse in my Microso

Agreed with others here, it makes sense that a lot of these apps get moved to PWAs as time goes on - better to

In reply to Daishi:This is a Chrome powered version of a device already available for Windows. Check out HPs

Microsoft just seem to be losing cohesiveness between their hardware and software story.Surface Pro 3 and Wind

Agreed. I used my Samsung Slate and later my Surface Pro 3 as both a laptop/desktop(when docked) and tablet al

In reply to jr.flynn:I adore Paint3D but I do agree there should be a switch in the UI somewhere that says "2D

As much as I love Windows, and prefer it and use it in my school - it's still a pain to manage and too co

Great stuff, this will be brilliant in a classroom environment - if any decent budget penabled devices are eve

I would love another decent Nexus 7 tablet. My 2013 version is starting to get quite sluggish and the touch se

I'm definitely not getting the full effect with my current setup but on a 4K HDR TV with a decent sound s

In reply to mmcpher:I use Launcher10 - works identically to Windows 10 Mobile and has an in-app purchase to ma

In reply to VancouverNinja:As seen in the demo: if the other person doesn't have pixel buds (or a phone c

Yep, the dropping of Groove has been an even bigger wake-up call to me than with W10M. I moved to Samsung (S8

I genuinely do think this is good news. It astonished me when Microsoft said they didn't have any plans t

In reply to dgr_874:On my S8 it's called 'Smart View'.

Oh my God. So they built a service that actually does rival Spotify (trust me, I've used both over the pa

It looks great, and I seem to have it on the Release Preview ring too. I'll play with it at some point an

OneNote gets better all the time, and the team behind it should be held up to other MS teams as an example of

In reply to JC:OneNote Class Notebooks are used at all age groups - I teach ages 6-19 and the younger ones esp

In reply to carlrhorn:Be sure to check out a home theme called 'Launcher10', it's made my trans

In reply to Stooks:Two of those articles are for Microsoft products and one is about an explicit rival to a Mi

OneNote is a brilliant example of what can be done with UWP and it's a shame all groups at Microsoft aren

They need to do a lot of work on the custom domains to bring it back to the level of Windows Live Domains from

Sad but true.Skype especially is such a shame - *everyone* used MSN back even up to late 00's but th

I dunno, the decision to get 72,000 smartphones for free over four years seems pretty smart to me - especially

Looks great! A shame the UWP doesn't look like this though. Did the Skype team talk about that at all?I m

In reply to SleepingPelican:Nope, this is a win32 desktop app for Windows 7,8, and macOS. The UWP is still a b

I'd agree with this. I'm on my fourth Surface Pro 4 in 15 months and this one is having troubles too

This is all great stuff, glad to see Groove filling out continuously.The lack of a free ad-supported version a

I wondered what that 'continue on PC' icon was that turned up the last couple days. I tried it but i

In reply to adamcorbally:Yes please! They must be working on this. If they're not then they're even

Very cool stuff! I think I prefer 'Albums' as a header though - my parents will certainly understand

Admittedly the feature I most want from this (and wanted from the online App Studio) is to also be able to exp

I think Fluent Design should come to Microsoft's major apps across platforms - if Fluent is present on th

Agreed! I've never understood the argument of "I don't like/use it so it shouldn't exist" from

They're all great features, but once a year would be fine, so long as Insiders get a steady stream of new

Sticking with Groove for now, it has improved so much over the past year or two and I prefer it to Spotify for

Interesting... I really wish Microsoft would do something education focused for this though. App Studio was ac

The market is there, it's just that these things simply don't need to be re-bought every 12-24 month

In reply to RedSign:That's how we can get into full screen mode sure, but once that menu has vanished, ho

Re: full screen mode. I wonder how this will work in tablet mode when there's no physical keyboard to F11

In reply to SherlockHolmes:I remember pinning a few sites back when they launched the feature - and built jump

In reply to siko:On an OS level it's not up to Windows 10 levels yet but they did show some great stuff o

It also one-ups Surface Pro by being a better tablet experiences and also bringing along all the great tablet

Xamarin is great and all, but Microsoft are doing things right and building native apps all around. This is a

In reply to Patrick3D:Well, PCs are already "always connected" at home and work or are you not connected to an

I still want a Surface Mini, but as a creative device - a notepad and sketchpad that's more portable than

In reply to MutualCore:It's not a negative article, which article did you read? ? It's odd people th

Thank goodness! It's about time they modernised these parts of the shell. Though I suppose this means the

The lack of USB-C and a 360 degree hinge have made it a non-starter for me, which is such a shame. It seems li

Sad, but true I suppose. I'm also interested in what is put forth about PWAs, as that's probably goi

I've never understood why this hasn't been available since the app debuted on Windows 10 mobile near

Yep, Paul has a point here about usage, I think I can split my Windows 10 time into three:1) Productivity/Prof

At least people who want to can continue to install on older devices but it makes sense for them to cut off ph

Edge has definitely improved with the Creators Update, and I'm much happier using it - I've yet to b

In reply to dvdwnd:Absolutely, it is a real shame they weren't given the chance (and they didn't at

Absolutely correct, and something I remember discussing with friends a few times last year.They just have to s

In reply to Rob_Wade:We already known Win10Cloud can be upgraded to any other Win10 product version by paying

All sounds quite fun speculation, hopefully it'll turn out to be true! ;)The journalistic integrity part

In reply to PeteB:Asking because I'm genuinely interested, not to be snarky:What telemetry is it you don&

In reply to yaddamaster:Haha, and you absolutely should. I hear about that bug regularly from friends who have

I hope they start to add this functionality to other parts of the OS eventually. It would be fascinating to be

It's looking like a good start, but it's one that's going to require a lot of work as they can&

In reply to yaddamaster:I'm always surprised this comes up in posts like this, unless you're joking?

In reply to jrickel96:Depends on your eyesight to an extent too. The QHD resolution at 5.2" on my Lumia 950 lo

Barring actual magic this simply isn't something that can be completely fixed. If there's a scaling

I just don't get the amount of throwback Windows 10 gets for updating. First up, outside of the big

it would make more sense to me if they built powerful Intel innards in the base and ARM in the scree

I'm a lot more interested in these than any other phone announced recently, and am excited at the prospec

I'm interested to see what else we'll see from the Groove team between now and the Creator's Up

Great stuff, so many new features rolling out this week to apps I use daily which is great. I guess they'

You speak the sense, Paul, as you do most of the time! ;)I love my Lumia 950 and Windows 10 mobile as an OS -

I wish someone at Microsoft was able to communicate this stuff simply. They still struggle and then fail to ex

My second PC had Windows ME (Got it Easter 2001 iirc) and saw me through my A-Levels - I thought it was great!

Windows Essentials was a wonderful collection of programs back in 2012. I was always surprised how Live Mail h

I'm sure Microsoft could price the Surface line cheaper overall, but feel they're probably artificially keepin

Yep, I picked up a plastic VR headset for phones in the Black Friday sales (£10 instead of £25) wh

Interesting, but looks a little more "pro" than I need (though granted I use screen captures a *lot* as a teac

I never quite understood OneNote fully for a long while. I started using it with my first Windows Phone (a Sam

Shove the innards of a Lumia 650 into a stick - remove the screen, nfc, phone, speakers, cameras etc. And add

In reply to IanYates82: Agreed - it's a real shame they ditched the Android bridge - having their own Android

It's a really good looking phone - a shame there's no international release even rumoured, let alone confirmed

Well it's a premium machine - it's not just about the specs. Sure, you could throw those specs into a bulky pl

Incredible stuff! Microsoft has long supported the tools for creatives and yet done nothing with them, allowin

Exciting times - seems to me the 'Dial' could be a virtual radial menu and the 'Surface Dial' something simila

I don't understand why pen input isn't standard on all Windows devices now - a Windows version of this (at the

Agreed, they don't look any different to generic cheap keyboards and mice out there that have been aping the A

Great stuff! I don't actually need this feature anymore (decided to go for the 256GB SP4 when I upgraded rathe