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The December 2024 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 bring a simplified system tray, new ways to share content with Android devices, and more.
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Microsoft’s strategy for moving customers to new versions of its client software products involves two distinctly different–one might say, incompatible–tactics. The first is the traditional customer-focused meeting of needs that dates back to the com… Continue reading 2024 Winds Down with a Fresh Look at the Microsoft Client Stack (Premium)
The x86 instruction set that once defined personal computing is now a boat anchor holding back the PC industry and contributing to Intel’s death. Intel is screwed, but we’ll be OK. Microsoft and Qualcomm delivered a one-two punch on behalf of Arm in 20… Continue reading Intel is Dead and x86 is Next (Premium)
Microsoft is blocking upgrades to Windows 11 version 24H2 on PCs where old versions of the Google Workspace Sync plugin for Outlook are installed.
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2024 was another year of great change, driven in part by the sudden viability and desirability of Windows 11 on Arm. But it’s not just that: After an incredibly disruptive 2023, I surprised myself by making a similar number of changes to the apps, serv… Continue reading My New Apps, Services, and Games of 2024 (Premium)
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For months, we’ve endured the tortured warnings of the Recall Chicken Littles, but now that this feature is finally available, we can finally see for ourselves that there are, in fact, very real problems. No, not with secur… Continue reading The Real Problem with Recall (Premium)
Two weeks after making Recall and Click to Do available in preview via the Insider Program, Microsoft has expanded the preview.
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If you’re having trouble figuring out how to connect Windows 10 or 11 to your data center Samba shares, this tutorial offers some simple steps to make this work. Continue reading How to Connect to Linux Samba Shares from Windows
I didn’t attend Microsoft Ignite this year, electing instead to spend an extra week in Mexico. But whether I attend in person or not, I always download videos for various keynotes and sessions so I can watch them later. I do this with Build, as well, a… Continue reading Open? (Premium)
After Microsoft launched Windows 11, it warned that users running the system on unsupported hardware would see a watermark on the desktop.
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