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Icebreaker app for Microsoft Teams will help promote team bonding

By Ashish Mohta | 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 Ashish Mohta | 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 Ashish Mohta | 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 Ashish Mohta | 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 Ashish Mohta | 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 Ashish Mohta | 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 […]

Microsoft Store will host native Win32 game apps

By Ashish Mohta | May 31, 2019

Universal Windows Platform or UWP was one of the biggest dreams of Microsoft. They wanted everyone to build universal apps for Windows PC, so it works on every platform, including Xbox. It looks like Microsoft is finally giving up on […]

Security Baseline for Windows 10 v1903 and Windows Server v1903 released

By Ashish Mohta | May 25, 2019

Microsoft has released the final Security Baseline for Windows 10 v1903 and Windows Server v1903.  Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit or MSCT allows enterprise security administrators to download, analyze, test, edit, and store Microsoft-recommended security configuration baselines for Windows and other […]

Microsoft will force-upgrade Windows 10 v1803 systems

By Ashish Mohta | May 25, 2019

Since we now have feature updates than a new version of Windows, every feature update has its end of service. When Microsoft announced Windows 10 v1903, they also announced that v1803 aka April 2018 Update would reach the end of […]

Windows Task Scheduler Privilege Escalation Vulnerability discovered

By Ashish Mohta | May 24, 2019

Carnegie Mellon University which operates the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) for the U.S. Department of Defense has published an article about a vulnerability in the Windows Task Scheduler. The Task Scheduler uses a function SetJobFileSecurityByName. According to the original finder, […]

Windows Server v1903 now Generally Available for Business

By Ashish Mohta | May 23, 2019

Apart from releasing Windows 10 v1903 for consumers, Microsoft Windows Server v1903 is now available for business. Some of the significant improvements and additions included in Server version are  Containers, Edge Computing and Hybrid. Windows Server v1903 now available for […]

A computer Laptop with six deadly Malware is up for auction

By Ashish Mohta | May 18, 2019

Tech can be weird, and this news is not just unique, but it will raise a lot of eyebrows. Performance artist Guo O Dong and cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct have put up a Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Blue Netbook which has […]

Microsoft open sources PowerToys

By Ashish Mohta | May 10, 2019

If PowerToys rings a bell, then I am pretty sure you had used Windows XP. These were small tweak from Windows engineers to test prototype features, and many of them were made public. They included quick resolutions like change resolution, […]

Microsoft announces CE migration technology to help customers move to Windows 10 IoT

By Ashish Mohta | May 8, 2019

One of the biggest challenges any platform faces is moving from one major version to another. It happened when Windows 10 was announced. Many who were on Windows 7 did not want to move to Windows 10. Microsoft CE is […]

Microsoft announces ROS for Windows with Windows IoT support

By Ashish Mohta | May 8, 2019

Everything has an operating system, even Robots. Robot Operating System (ROS) is one such OS maintained by OpenRobotics.org. It is an open source robotics framework in which Microsoft vested their interest at ROSCon 2018. The Redmond giant had been working […]

Microsoft Search brings intelligent search for the modern workplace

By Ashish Mohta | May 8, 2019

We all are familiar with Search feature in Windows 10. Microsoft is taking it a step ahead for the enterprise. Named as—Microsoft Search, this feature uses the artificial intelligence technology (AI) from Bing and deep personalized insights surfaced by the […]

Git repositories wiped out & ransomed

By Ashish Mohta | May 5, 2019

Git is a distributed version control system that allows developers to track changes in source code during software development. Many services host Git for developers like GitHub, GitLab and so on. The news is that in a coordinated attack to these […]

Firefox fixes bug which prevented existing and new add-ons from running

By Ashish Mohta | May 4, 2019

A bug in Firefox was preventing existing and new add-ons from running or being installed. It was reported only yesterday, and Firefox is now rolling out a fix for all Firefox Desktop users on Release, Beta and Nightly. The fix […]

DirectX 12 now supports Variable Rate Shading

By Ashish Mohta | March 25, 2019

Performance and Graphics are two core features when it comes to gaming. Often gamers trade between two at parts of the game to deliver the best experience. Taking a step ahead, Microsoft has announced support of Variable Rate Shading in […]

Facebook to introduce auto expiring posts and more

By Ashish Mohta | March 13, 2019

Facebook, one of the most popular social networking, has slowly become more of noise. The original idea where it could have been used for conversation, connecting people seems to be getting lost. It is almost taken over by videos, stuff […]

Adobe Shockwave to be discontinued for Windows

By Ashish Mohta | March 12, 2019

If you grew up with the Internet, I am sure you know about Adobe Shockwave. A plugin which we all had installed at some point to play multimedia applications and video games. Released by Macromedia in 1995, later acquired by […]

Windows Calculator is now Open Source

By Ashish Mohta | March 8, 2019

The Windows Calculator has grown from being a basic calculator to an advanced one. Going further, Microsoft has announced to open source Windows Calculator on GitHub. The most significant advantage which I see is all those calculator apps for Windows […]

Microsoft releases Web Activities browser extension for Chrome

By Ashish Mohta | February 21, 2019

The Windows 10 Timeline feature is now supported by Google Chrome for all the webpages you visit. Web Activities is a Timeline integrated Chrome extension from Microsoft. It can show all the pages you visit in the timeline. Web Activities […]