New Windows 10 Pro for Workstation Edition Coming this Fall Microsoft is describing Windows 10 Pro for Workstation as the best edition for demanding customers including Rihanna. Windows 10 Pro for Workstation puts emphasis on four critical areas: the Resilient File System (first introduced in Windows 8); persistent memory; faster file sharing through SMB Direct; and support for the latest high-end workstation processors from Intel and AMD. Here is what Microsoft had to say about each in detail: It really does trigger the question, why these features; couldn’t they just add these unique features to existing premium business editions....

With only two years of market, Microsoft is preparing to abandon the first version of Windows 10, finished its support as early as March 2017. After being introduced to the world in October 2014, Windows 10 arrived to users on 29 July of the following year. On that day it was finally possible to install the new version of Microsoft’s operating system, free of charge for most users. Microsoft has maintained constant updates to this version, in August last year launched the first major update of Windows 10, the Anniversary Update....

The announcement came from the launch event in New York earlier this morning. Ballmer and a few other exec’s reviewed the new offering however the majority of the presentations I found were focused on collaboration. Office 365 is an online version of Microsoft Office, but it is also an Exchange and Sharepoint capable service that will work with desktop apps and mobile devices. Secondly, Ballmer honed in on the benefits for the small and medium-sized businesses drawing attention to the ease of getting the service up and running with little IT support....

The default option concerning updates for 7 and 8.1 makes it so recommended updates are automatically downloaded to your PC. In general this is a good thing as it ensures that your software is completely up to date without your direct input. However it also means that instead of having the option to reject the Windows 10 upgrade, it will begin to download and install immediately. It is possible to turn this option off however and this image (courtesy of ExtremeTech....

A scientist uncovered a unimportant Windows validation detour, altered recently, that puts information on BitLocker-scrambled drives at danger. Be that as it may, in circumstances when, for instance, a portable PC is taken outside of the system and the area controller can’t be come to, confirmation depends on a neighborhood accreditations store on the machine. The issue influences Windows PCs that are a piece of a space, a typical setup on big business systems....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T67JQkf0OA&feature=player_embedded] The concept video above shows off the Mercedes-Benz’ vision for the “future of multimedia online systems” using smartphones as a media hub, most of which seems to resemble the description of their newly announced “iPhone Interface Plus” concept. Mercedes is showing off some pretty impressive iPhone integration at this year’s IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt. In what we assume is a major evolution of their Media Interface Plus accessory unveiled last year, the company is set to introduce an “iPhone Interface Plus” concept, available as a retrofit on every Mercedes Benz starting summer 2012....

After announcing MS Paint’s “deprecation” back in 2017, Microsoft has gone in the other direction. Not only is Microsoft Paint sticking around in Windows 10—Microsoft just updated it with new keyboard controls! This is pretty big news. Microsoft “deprecated” MS Paint in 2017, which meant Microsoft would stop updating it. The media pronounced it “dead,” but Microsoft happily announced that Paint would be moving out of Windows and into the Store app....

We had featured the Bamboo Notepad which was a pressure sensitive notepad with a companion pen, the Bamboo Spark transferred the notes to the cloud. This notepad too came with a few drawbacks including the need to charge and the need to replace the pen, which can be an expensive affair. Rocketbook Wave is a much more simplified yet effective cloud connected Notebook. The most interesting part of the Rocketbook Wave is its simplicity, the notebook comes with a glossy surface and at the bottom it has some symbols stacked up....

The lawsuits, which were filed anonymously in the UK and US, allege that the Facebook platform widely disseminated anti-Rohingya hate speech and misinformation while also helping users incite violence, which culminated in the rape, death, and torture of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya. The Rohingya people are a Muslim minority that has historically lived in present-day Myanmar, but have faced persecution and human rights violations from the local government and extremist Buddhists in the country....

Smartphones are far more advanced nowadays than the computer used in 1969 to ferry Neil Armstrong to the moon and yet, it crashes and develops issues that it may or may not be able to cope up with. One of such issues is the BQ Mobile restarting and freezing problem that users observe often. We at GetDroidTips received plenty of requests and comments on this issue and how to fix it and therefore, we decided to tackle the issue and provide a troubleshooting guide to help cope up with the situation....

Microsoft is now withholding security updates from Windows 7 users who don’t have an antivirus installed. There’s a way around this limitation, but you have to manually set a registry key. Blame Meltdown and Spectre RELATED: How to Check if Your PC or Phone Is Protected Against Meltdown and Spectre This is all thanks to the patch for Meltdown and Spectre that rolled out via Windows Update. Microsoft noticed that many antivirus applications were incompatible with the update and caused blue screen errors....

Microsoft announced today its all-new Windows 11 software for PCs. In an exclusive interview with WSJ’s Joanna Stern, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about the new operating system, called out app stores, and invited iMessage to the Microsoft Store. While Nadella seems optimistic about a future where all developers and apps are welcome to the Windows software, no matter what, Apple has taken a different path. Mostly during the last year, Apple has been accused of monopoly over the iPhone App Store....

Well, if we talk about Quantum computers, we are yet to come across the first real quantum computer. Several tech giants are making big efforts to make the first real quantum computer. Microsoft at its Ignite conference shared its plan to develop a language for the programming of quantum bits. The name of the programming language is still the mystery. However, it will be offered via Microsoft’s Visual Studio toolkit....

Microsoft Excel can automatically detect dates, times, currencies, and more from text and convert them into a parsed format for use in formulas. However, Excel often gets conversions wrong, especially when it comes to dates, which Microsoft is now working to address. Microsoft revealed this week that it’s working on a new option to turn off Excel’s automatic data conversions, which is now available in the Office Insider testing builds on Windows....

Office 2011 for Mac is going to be released in a couple of days, and we got our hands on the latest version already. Here’s a quick tour of some of the new features in the latest version of Office. This new release brings many features from Office for Windows that have been missing or have not worked the same—for instance, Office now includes the Ribbon interface, and replaces Entourage with Outlook....

For the Beta Download Center you will need to install Microsoft Silverlight. After all of this it sure seemed to take far to long for the beta page to load. Once everything was finally rendered I noticed the cosmetic changes to the center. Here is a shot of a menu box where it allows for easy navigation of the various downloads. The main page has lists of popular and new downloads....

Microsoft announced many new features coming to its web browser today, most of which are aimed at use in corporate environments and other organizations. Edge Workspaces is the most exciting addition, which Microsoft describes as “a shared set of browser tabs where everyone can view the same websites and latest working files for a project in one place.” Play Video Here’s how it works: you can create a link to a workspace from the Edge browser, and then share it to anyone else with Edge....

Apple finally brought Touch ID to the Mac with the new MacBook Pros last fall, but there’s still no official way to log in to a desktop Mac with your fingerprint. Microsoft is introducing a new macOS-compatible Modern Keyboard with what it calls a hidden fingerprint reader. You’ll need Windows to enjoy the benefits of having that fingerprint sensor since Apple doesn’t open Touch ID features on macOS, but it’s an interesting product that ships for the same price as Apple’s wireless keyboard with a num pad....

“We would love for you to participate. Start by creating and sharing lists with your work colleagues, partners, your soccer team, or your neighborhood volunteer groups. We’ve designed the app off the core of Microsoft Lists, plus introduce new experiences like tabbed views, sharing from within a Person column, add images inline, and more,” said Microsoft in a blog post announcing the Lists preview. To sign up, you’ll need to have a Microsoft account, and you’ll need to get in before Microsoft closes the registration....

There is not much information yet on these new forms of attack, but the AV-TEST security application testing company has revealed that forms of attacks, mostly malware, have already begun to exploit the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in almost all modern processors. Initially revealed to affect Intel processors, these two failures have proven to be in many other manufacturers and architectures. According to AV-TEST, there are already 139 samples that have been collected and are appear to be trying to exploit these two vulnerabilities and then gain access to user information....