The Windows Insider Program isn’t the same as it was a year ago. A lot has changed, from leadership to the way that builds are delivered. It started back in February, when we were all still testing out Windows 10 version 1903. Microsoft had opened up the Skip Ahead subset of the Fast ring, which […]
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Microsoft is making significant changes to how it tests Windows 10 with Insiders
Big changes are coming to the way Microsoft develops and tests Windows 10 with participants in the Windows Insider Program. Starting with today’s build, Microsoft will no longer designate preview builds that roll out to the Fast ring as part of a specific release of Windows 10. This means that from now on, builds released […]
Microsoft Pushes Windows 10 Autopilot Update by Mistake, How to Remove
Microsoft mistakenly installed the Windows 10 update for Autopilot on consumer versions of Windows. After learning of their mistake, Microsoft pulled the update from being offered incorrectly, but by that point, the update was already mistakenly installed on user’s devices. Windows 10 Autopilot is a Microsoft technology that allows enterprise administrators to pre-configure new Windows […]
Microsoft may ship the Surface Hub 2X with a version of Windows 10X
Microsoft hasn’t said much about the Surface Hub 2X, a product initially announced in May 2018 to much fanfare, since the announcement of the Surface Hub 2S in April earlier this year. Initially announced as a single product, the Surface Hub 2 was supposed to launch in 2019 with a brand new version of Windows 10 built on Windows […]
Microsoft reveals new Windows logo design and 100 modern app icons
Microsoft is tweaking its Windows logo and the icons for many of the operating system’s apps. We’ve known for a year that the software maker has been planning an icon overhaul, and the company’s new Office icons were only the start. Microsoft is now redesigning more than 100 icons across the company with new colors, materials, and finishes. […]
Microsoft: Xbox Scarlett will kick PlayStation 5’s ass in perf/price
The fight for console dominance is going to really kick off in 2020, as Microsoft doesn’t want to behind in any sense of the word with the new generation of consoles. Microsoft plans to use its Xbox Scarlett to well and truly kick some Sony ass with its right-now-way-more-hyped PlayStation 5 console. Xbox boss Phil […]
Microsoft begins the official rollout of Windows 10 1909
Microsoft is kicking off the official rollout of Windows 10 1909, the Windows 10 November 2019 feature update today, November 12. The timing isn’t surprising, given today is Patch Tuesday, which tends to be when Microsoft commences new feature update rollouts these days. As it did with Windows 10 1903, the May 2019 Update, Microsoft […]
Surface Pro X teardown finds a new high in ‘repairability’ for Microsoft
Microsoft’s Surface Pro X is even more repair-friendly than the Surface Laptop 3, getting a bigger thumbs-up from the teardown experts over at iFixit. While iFixit scored the Surface Laptop 3 as a 5 out of 10 when it came to repairs, the freshly unleashed Surface Pro X managed to creep ahead with a 6 out of […]
Microsoft announces the Windows 10 November 2019 Update, confirms final build
In an evening blog post penned by the Windows Insider Program team’s Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft announced that it’s prepping the Windows 10 November 2019 Update for release. Aside from being the first time that the company has publicly mentioned the (fairly obvious) name of the update that’s otherwise known as version 1909, the blog post confirmed that […]