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Microsoft Edge to include a new dark theme with the mica material effect. The company is also building a new photo viewer experience for the browser. It’s yet unclear when these features will roll out to users. Microsoft Edge is getting a redesigned dark theme with mica material and a new feature that allows users to leverage the browser as a photo viewer. The mica material support won’t be only available for the dark theme since the company has already been testing the same visual effects for the light theme ....

On June 9, Microsoft released yet another Patch Tuesday, which brings a total of eight security patches for various products, including Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office. Two of the new updates for June 2015, are labeled as Critical and the remaining six updates are labeled as Important. The KB3058515 is a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer addressing over 20 reported vulnerabilities. KB3033890 resolves a vulnerability in Windows Media Player that could allow remote code execution....

Microsoft announces Copilot for Office apps. Copilot is a chatbot AI similar to Bing Chat but for work. The AI will come to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Microsoft has announced the new Copilot feature that uses AI with ChatGPT (GPT-4) integration for its Office (Microsoft 365) apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. The Copilot is a chatbot similar to Bing Chat but designed for work. The feature appears on the right side of the Office apps to assist you in generating content for a document, email, presentation, and more....

More interactive Live Tiles in the Windows Start menu have been in the works for a number of years. Although Microsoft has been improving its Live Tiles feature at different times, since they were introduced on Windows 8.x, their functionality hasn’t changed significantly on Windows 10. Now interactive Live Tiles are surfacing again and may soon arrive on Windows 10 Redstone . Microsoft’s Build developers conference is happening on March 30th, and a session entitled “What’s New for Tiles and Toast Notifications” has been spotted on the company’s Channel9 website ....

You can now download the Staircases theme for Windows 10 from the Microsoft Store. This collection includes 12 high-resolution (4K) wallpapers of different architectural staircases, including ascending, descending, and spiral designs with different colors, perfect to refresh your desktop background. The theme is free to download and set a desktop background only on devices running Windows 10. If the backgrounds rotate too quickly, after applying the theme to the desktop, you can go to Settings > Personalization > Background , and use the Change picture every drop-down menu to adjust the image frequency....

Surface Laptop Go 2 is announced and ready for preorder. The laptop includes a new Intel 11th-Gen Core i5 CPU, a better camera, and new sage color. It’ll be available on June 7, starting at $600. Microsoft has unveiled its new Surface Laptop Go 2, which features a more powerful Intel 11th Gen processor, an improved webcam, and Windows 11 . After two years of the original release of the budget laptop designed to compete with Chromebooks, Microsoft is refreshing the device with newer hardware and a higher $600 starting price tag....

In this first part of the ultimate guide to get started with your brand new Windows PC, you’ll find everything you need to know and do to configure and start your Windows experience the right way. You are going to learn which antivirus you should be using, how to configure and keep Windows up to date, and how to create the system recovery discs necessary to reset your PC to factory default (very important)....

Speak for me allows Windows 11 to speak aloud with others for you. The feature offers the option to create an avatar voice or preserve your voice. It’s expected to arrive as part of the features coming to Windows 11 24H2. To enable the feature, open Settings > Accessibility > Speak for me and turn on the “Speak for me.” UPDATED 2/26/2024: Microsoft is working on a new accessibility feature known as “Speak for me,” which is expected to arrive with the release of Windows 11 24H2 during the second half of 2024 ....

Microsoft is releasing a new Spring Creators Update preview for Windows 10 (build 17123) in the Fast ring. This is a small update part of the Redstone 4 development, and it introduces a number of fixes and new improvements. Windows 10 Insider Preview build 17123 , according to the company, introduces the High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF), which is an image container that uses modern codecs like HEVC to improve quality, compression, and capabilities compared to earlier formats like JPEG, GIF, and PNG....

Microsoft is now rolling out Windows 10 build 18362.30 as update KB4497464 for devices enrolled in the Fast and Slow rings of the Windows Insider Program. This is the preview number 41 releasing to testers to address a few issues with the May 2019 Update . Windows 10 build 18362.30, according to the company , addresses three specific problems, including authentication with Azure Active Directory, .Net Framework, and it fixes a particular issue that prevented devices from start after install an update and option Feature-On-Demand....

Microsoft is now rolling out Windows 10 build 18908 for devices enrolled in the Fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. This is the fourteenth preview available for testers as part of the 20H1 development , and it delivers a number of new changes. Windows 10 build 18908 , according to the company, is a minor release that ships with an updated version of the YourPhone app with various new features, and some improvements for the OS....

As part of the Vibranium (20H1) development , Microsoft is now rolling out Windows 10 build 19028 for devices enrolled in the Fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. This is the preview number 43, and it’s a minor update without new features. Windows 10 build 19028 , according to the software giant, fixes issues that could cause the Settings app and Action center to crash. In addition, it fixes Storage as well as Windows Update settings, and addresses a crashing problem with the Photos app when interacting with HEVC images....

Microsoft is now rolling out Windows 10 build 19041.208 as cumulative update KB4558244 to fix one problem with version 2004 (preview). KB4558244 is a small update that bumps the version number to build 19041.208, and according to the software giant addresses issue that fails to send NPLogonNotify API notifications from the credential provider framework. In addition, Microsoft reveals of some difficulty when navigating and reading certain web content on the Chromium version of Microsoft Edge for Narrator and NVDA users....

Microsoft is now rolling out Windows 10 build 20211 for devices enrolled in the Dev Channel of the Windows Insider Program. This is the preview number 36 available for testers, and it includes some minor changes and several fixes. Windows 10 build 20211 , according to the company, the ability to search the list of file types, protocols, and apps in the Default apps settings pages is now available to all Insiders....

Build 20136 is now rolling out for Windows 10 devices enrolled in the Dev Channel of the Windows Insider Program. This is the preview number 42 that Microsoft is making available to testers with some new features and improvements coming in future releases. According to the company, Windows 10 build 20236 adds the ability to change the refresh rate of a display from the Advanced display settings page from the “Display” settings....

Windows 10 build 21343 recently made its way to testers with devices in the Dev Channel with an updated version of File Explorer that includes a new visual refresh with new icons and some other improvements. In this hands-on video, we will get a closer look at the new modern iconography for the profile folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, etc.), drives, and other elements across the experience since even the Recycle Bin has received an update....

Microsoft is rolling out an out-of-band security update for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709) and previous releases. This is an emergency update that is meant to address the recently disclosed flaws found on Intel, AMD, and ARM processors released in the past two decades that affect Windows as well as Linux and macOS operating systems. The update for Windows 10 version 1709 is described as KB4056892 and bumps the version number to build 16299....

To download the Windows 10 ISO file without the Media Creation Tool, open the Microsoft support website, change the browser user agent to anything other than “Windows,” and click the download button. You can download the Windows 10 ISO file without the Media Creation Tool to upgrade or clean install the latest version of the operating system or create a virtual machine . The only caveat is that, unlike the Windows 11 ISO download process , getting the image file for Windows 10 is not straightforward since Microsoft wants you to use the “Media Creation Tool” or “Update Assistant....

Windows 10 is just getting better by the day, Microsoft’s Gabriel Aul has revealed that natively FLAC support is coming to Windows 10. For years Windows Media Player has been a software limited on its capability to play different file formats. To overcome this limitation, after installing Windows, most of us will install VLC Media Player and forget anything else related to codecs. In Windows 10 things are changing. The operating system now will support FLAC as well as MKV and HEVC media file formats ....

Microsoft is now rolling out update KB4540673 to fix a number of problems with desktops and laptops running the Windows 10 version 1909 and 1903 . KB4540673 bumps the version number to build 18362.719 and 18363.719 for the May 2019 Update and November 2019 Update respectively, and according to the software giant, the update addresses problem that prevents upgrading to a new version and patches various security holes. In addition to the update for the most recent version of Windows 10, Microsoft is also releasing quality updates for older versions, including version 1809, 1803, 1709, 1703, 1607, and original release....