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Customers – mainly enterprises – that use the Long-term Servicing Branch (LTSB) for updates will continue to get the levels of support Microsoft has offered in the past: five years of Mainstream support and five more years of Extended support. Unfortunately, for those...

This was revealed through Microsoft’s latest update to its Windows lifecyle fact sheet. The Windows lifecycle fact sheet lists down significant milestone dates for each version of Windows, such as release date, end of mainstream support, end of extended support, and end of...

July 21 Microsoft Corp reported a $3.2 billion quarterly net loss, hurt by charges related to its Nokia phone business and job cuts, and weak demand for its Windows operating system.

The whole Office Mobile pack, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as OneNote, Windows Calculator, Mail and Calendar, and Get Office receive these updates today, and all seem to bring fixes and optimizations, just as Microsoft promised last week.

Microsoft will keep issuing security patches for Windows 7 until January 2020 and for Windows 8 until January 2023. Microsoft credited security company FireEye’s Genwei Jiang and Mateusz Jurczyk, part of Google’s Project Zero security squad, for finding the flaw and...

The company explained that an attacker can install programs, view, alter or delete data or even create new accounts with full user rights. It is a remote code execution problem which means that users could be exposed to threats whenever an unpatched system makes its way onto...

Essentially this allows you to play in pretty much any room of your house and not have to drag your console everywhere with you. While it is only available to those that are in the Windows 10 Preview, it does mean that the feature will be available to everyone when the new...

Microsoft released an emergency patch on Monday, July 20, that addresses a security flaw in the font driver of Windows machines. The company typically issues security updates once a month on what is known as Patch Tuesday, but this out-of-band update indicates just how serious...

The company said in a blog post that they would be making this move in order to bring some of the content that is found on the Xbox Live space to Windows 10 PC’s and tablets.

Separately, Microsoft will offer “mainstream support” for Windows 10 through October 13, 2020 and “extended support” for security fixes through October 14, 2025, as indicated by a PC World report. “It’s just not the same way that enterprise PCs...

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a feature for the Xbox One/Windows 10 in which gamers would basically be able to stream games played on their Xbox One onto their Windows 10 devices, like PCs and tablets.

These should confirm what a spokesperson for Microsoft has said that the prices in the USA should be the same as for Windows 8.1 – as those who already have this version, as well as Windows 7 users will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 freely once it has been launched.

One of the things that Microsoft has significantly improved in build 10240 is the speed of the browser, and the company says that, in all key benchmarks, Edge performed way better than Google’s Chrome.

A USB installer may not make a difference to majority of Windows users who will either get Windows 10 as a free update or via a newly purchased device.

“This is going to be an exciting couple of weeks, but it is also only the beginning”, Microsoft said in a blog post announcing the Windows 10 build 10240 release. This information was made public by the Redmond based tech firm via an email statement. Microsoft is...