SmartAboutThings tipped us off to an interesting bug reported by ZDNet Thursday: For the fourth time in three months, a Symantec security product is crashing user apps, and this time it’s the latest Chrome release, v78, which rolled out earlier this week, on Tuesday, October 22. According to reports on Reddit [1, 2] the Google support forums [1, 2], and in…
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Forbes Raves Upcoming Linux Desktop Will ‘Embarass’ Windows 10 and macOS
Forbes senior contributor Jason Evangelho dedicated a whole article to a coming update for one Chinese-domestic Linux distribution: If you haven’t been paying attention to a little Linux desktop distribution called Deepin, it’s time to put it on your radar. Nevermind that Huawei chose Deepin to ship on their MateBook laptop lineup. Nevermind that Deepin Cloud Sync [for system settings] is…
Windows 10 Testers Can Now Answer Android Phone Calls and Text Messages
An anonymous reader quotes VentureBeat: At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2019 in August and the Surface hardware event last week, Microsoft talked about Windows 10’s Your Phone app getting a new “Calls” feature. Today, the company is letting Windows Insiders start testing an early preview of Android calling on Windows 10. Having given up on Windows Phone, Microsoft has increasingly poured more…
Microsoft’s New Surface Earbuds Work With Any Virtual Assistant, Not Just Cortana
At Microsoft’s annual Surface press event today, the company announced the Surface Earbuds to rival Apple’s AirPods and Amazon’s newly announced Echo Buds. What’s unique about the Surface Earbuds is that, unlike the other two wireless earphones, they can be used with Alexa, Bixby, Google Assistant, Siri, or any other competitor — not just with Cortana. VentureBeat reports: Like the Surface…
Microsoft Announces Windows 10X For Dual-Screen PCs
Microsoft today announced Windows 10X, a new flavor of Windows 10 designed for dual-screen PCs. Windows 10X will power dual-screen PCs from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and of course Microsoft. From a report: But we won’t see them until holiday 2020. Microsoft teased the Surface Neo running Windows 10X at its event today. Lenovo unveiled what it called “the world’s first…
Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop Hits General Availability
Microsoft today announced that Windows Virtual Desktop has hit worldwide general availability. As a result, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure “in minutes,” the company said today. From a report: Think of Windows Virtual Desktop as a tool for deploying and scaling Windows desktops and apps on Azure with built-in security and compliance. The Azure-based…
Windows 10 Is Used On Over 900 Million Devices
Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi tweeted today that Microsoft is now being used on over 900 million devices, and that the Redmond company added more new Windows 10 devices in the last 12 months than ever before. Engadget reports: That’s a massive number, and as Thurrott points out, if Microsoft maintains this pace, Windows 10 could reach 1 billion devices by early 2020….
New Windows 10 Update Bugs Include Orange Screenshots
An anonymous reader quotes MS Poweruser: Microsoft’s latest Cumulative Update KB4512941 for Windows 10 May 2019 Update(1903) may be Microsoft’s buggiest yet, with the update already known for being plagued with high CPU usage bugs* and crippled search. Now reports of a new bug are filtering in, with users reporting that their screenshots all have an orange tint, no matter which…
Wired Lists ‘The Windows 10 Privacy Settings You Should Check Right Now’
“If you’re at all concerned about the privacy of your data, you don’t want to leave the default settings in place on your devices — and that includes anything that runs Windows 10,” warns a new article in Wired, listing out the “controls and options you can modify to lock down the use of your data, from the information you share…
Windows 10 Passes 50% Market Share, Windows 7 Falls To 30%
More than four years after its release, Windows 10 has passed 50% in market share. This means every other desktop computer is now running Microsoft’s latest and greatest operating system, according to Net Applications. From a report: In January, Windows 10 passed Windows 7 in market share. These are nice milestones for Microsoft to finally hit, even though they took longer…