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New Surface lineup reportedly facing Sound and WiFi problems

By AshishMohta@TWC | 3 days ago

Microsoft recently announced the new New Surface lineup, which includes Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7, Surface Pro X and more. Sadly those devices, Surface Pro 7 and Surface Lap 3, housing Intel AX201 driver has been hit by a […]

Windows Admin Center version 1910 with hybrid capabilities with Azure announced

By AshishMohta@TWC | November 6, 2019

Microsoft has made several announcements during its MSIgnite event, and the majority of them are around Azure, and it’s hybrid capabilities. Many companies follow this model, and keeping this in mind; the Windows Admin Center 1910 has many new hybrid […]

Microsoft OneNote 2016 support extended

By AshishMohta@TWC | November 5, 2019

OneNote had been popular among those who regularly indulge in Office products. It had been especially used to manage ToDo list, jot down notes quickly and more. That said, Microsoft OneNote end of life was approaching, but the number of […]

1.3 million Indian bank users and credit card details leaked on the Dark Web

By AshishMohta@TWC | November 1, 2019

Money is in data, and if that data is Credit Card number, its even better. But sadly that’s, not a good thing in the hands of the wrong people. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has revealed that they have detected […]

Microsoft rolls out improved version of Project with new subscription plans

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 31, 2019

After a year of development, Microsoft is rolling out significant improvements to Microsoft Project with new subscription plans. In this update, Microsoft has given a lot of focus on collaboration and how a team can achieve a project effectively. When […]

Wayback Machine rolls out new and improved Save Page feature

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 24, 2019

Wayback Machine is an online service that archives websites, pages, documents, and many other things. If you ever wanted to see how a website looked when it was a couple of years of months back, then this is where you […]

Avast Antivirus Network breached through insecure VPN Profile

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 22, 2019

It looks like a VPN as a service is not having a good day. NordVPN is already under fire about its Private keys being leaked, and data decrypted on one of its servers, and now Avast Antivirus network has been […]

NordVPN confirms that it was hacked after Private keys were leaked

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 21, 2019

Irony! We all use a VPN, keeping in mind everything is private and secure, but then it looks like the risk is everywhere. NordVPN is one of the popular  VPN services has confirmed that it was hacked sometimes ago. The […]

Microsoft starts showing End of Support notifications for Windows 7 users

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 21, 2019

Windows 7 was one of the most popular and stable OS from Microsoft, and it’s no surprise that so many users are still stuck on it. However, End of Support is almost here. According to the Microsoft Support page, after […]

There will be no new Windows SDK for Windows 10 1909

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 17, 2019

Windows 10 1909 will soon become available to general consumers, but as usual, they will be first available for developers. Intresting part is that Microsoft Windows Team says that there will be no new Windows SDK – but if you […]

Edge Insider Feedback offers Screenshot editing, selective logs, recreate problem and attach files

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 16, 2019

If you have recently updated Microsoft Edge Insider build, a smiley icon next to your profile picture cannot get unnoticed. Edge team has introduced this feature to make it easy for anyone to report an issue. They have made it […]

Microsoft Office 2010 to reach End of Support in One Year

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 16, 2019

Every Software reaches its end of Support, and Office 2010 will reach its end of support on October 13th, 2020—One year from now. Microsoft strongly advices that Businesses and Home users should consider upgrading to Office 365 or 2019, whichever […]

Update iCloud for Windows to Protect Against Ransomware (Bonjour)

By AshishMohta@TWC | October 15, 2019

We just talked about Windows 10 Upgrade assistant vulnerability, and now we are reporting another one – iCloud Bonjour updater exploit. Reported by  Threatpost, the vulnerability in Bonjour updater for Apple software on Windows can be used to install Ransomeware […]

Microsoft offers pre-release Windows 10 feature updates via WSUS to IT Admins

By AshishMohta@TWC | September 26, 2019

While Microsoft runs the Windows Insider Program for Business, today, the Redmon Giant has announced to offer pre-release Windows 10 feature updates to Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) to IT Admins. The primary goal is to help Businesses figure out […]

Facebook Dating launched

By AshishMohta@TWC | September 7, 2019

We all know how much data we have given to Facebook. Right from relation status, to what we do, connection to a spouse, log everything that is happening with our life. That’s a personal choice, but that has given a […]

Windows Terminal 0.4 Preview Update brings improved features

By AshishMohta@TWC | August 29, 2019

Microsoft’s Windows Terminal is the modern version of the terminal like Command Prompt, PowerShell and WSL, It brings features including multiple tabs, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations. In […]

Microsoft Edge to stop ePub format reading support

By AshishMohta@TWC | August 27, 2019

Microsoft has shared that the Edge browser will no longer support e-books which use .epub file extension. Reading eBooks had been one of the strongest features of Edge, but this one particular extension is bring dropped. It is most widely […]

Microsoft Edge Beta Channel is now available

By AshishMohta@TWC | August 21, 2019

Microsoft Edge team released Canary and Dev builds back in April. Technically these builds are less stable and get more frequent updates. Today, they have rolled out Microsoft Edge Beta channel. It is now available on all supported versions of […]

Driver vulnerability puts millions of Windows users at risk

By AshishMohta@TWC | August 15, 2019

Drivers in Windows make sure that the device can talk to the Windows OS. The exchange of information goes as deep at the Kernel level. Any vulnerability in the drivers can impact a majority of devices and can let access […]

MetaDefender and Windows Defender partner for Hybrid Platforms

By AshishMohta@TWC | August 14, 2019

MetaDefender is an Advanced Threat Prevention Platform for preventing and detecting cybersecurity threats on multiple data channels. Microsoft has partnered with  OPSWAT’s MetaDefender and made it available for on-premises and hybrid cloud Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) scanning. While there is […]

Microsoft announces Code Browser with Github integration and One-click Azure Deployment

By AshishMohta@TWC | August 14, 2019

Microsoft Docs has developed a search or sample code browser where you can find relevant code examples to get started. It covers almost all the Microsoft products, and the best part is that it search codes on Github right from […]

Microsoft and Samsung partner to bring productive apps on Samsung devices

By AshishMohta@TWC | August 14, 2019

Microsoft and Samsung announced some incredible partnership at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event. Samsung not only has announced a Windows Laptop — Galaxy Book S, but also spoke about the significant collaboration is the availability of Microsoft apps on Samsung Galaxy […]

Microsoft and Jio partner for custom solutions on Azure

By AshishMohta@TWC | August 14, 2019

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (Jio) recently made some big announcements as they move into the Broadband segment with their JIO Fiber Broadband offerings. It includes a free 4K LED TV and 4K Set Top Box. The offer will go Live […]

Icebreaker app for Microsoft Teams will help promote team bonding

By AshishMohta@TWC | July 6, 2019

Microsoft Teams is a great way to manage a team, create meetings, and manage tasks. If you have a big team, it becomes important to make them comfortable with each other. This is where the Icebreaker app for Teams come […]

Windows Calculator now available for Android, iOS and the Web

By AshishMohta@TWC | June 28, 2019

Microsoft has been a massive fan of Open Source for a couple of years, and just like how they developed the Windows Terminal, they also open sourced Windows Calculator. Today it has been made available for Android, iOS and the […]

Windows Terminal is now available on the Microsoft Store

By AshishMohta@TWC | June 27, 2019

Windows Terminal, the modern avatar of the Command Prompt, is now available in the Microsoft Store. While Command Prompt, Power Shell, and other terminals are going to stay, but with Windows Terminal, Microsoft has put up a command line interface […]

Facebook launches Libra Cryptocurrency

By AshishMohta@TWC | June 23, 2019

In the race of Cryptocurrency, Facebook has announced its plan for its Cryptocurrency — Libra. Like any other, Libra is powered by Blockchain technology. Interesting to note that it’s going to under the non-profit Libra.org Association, which is backed by […]

Google Earth to work on Firefox and other browsers too

By AshishMohta@TWC | June 22, 2019

Like many other services, Google Earth till now had been only supported on Chrome. It was not about being competitive, but it was instead the technology that was required for Google Earth to work. It was released as a native […]

Mozilla Firefox to get a new logo

By AshishMohta@TWC | June 15, 2019

Firefox first came into existence in 2002 with its evolutionary browser which made everyone switch to it. While many use Google Chrome now, but Firefox has its legacy for doing a lot of things first. Fast forward, Firefox is not […]