Insteon, one of the largest companies to sell house automation products, is about to release a new app that integrates with Cortana and it will allow her to control many elements on the house such as light bulbs, thermostat, outlets and switches, and a lot more. A new video shows a behind the scene of Microsoft’s secret Surface labs. Confusion from Microsoft’s conference call let many to believe that the tech giant is dumping all versions of its operating system and creating one single version of Windows that works across all platforms, but this isn’t quite what the company was trying to communicate....

Furthermore, Insiders who got stuck on the previous build of Windows 10 Mobile, now they can upgrade directly without having to go back to Windows Phone 8.1 first. Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 became available for purchase this week on the Microsoft Store, Best Buy, and other retailers in the United States and Canada, and follow the launch the software giant made available for download the corresponding recovery images and user guides for the new devices....

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In other Windows related news, Microsoft Press is now offering FREE video tutorials for beginners. They released about 15 hours of videos covering Windows 7, Word 2010 and Excel 2010. Get the full scoop and links to watch the videos from the article! This week Google has released Gmail offline and here in Pureinfotech, you can get the details on how to use it and how to properly get rid of it, if you don’t want to use it anymore....

Having VLC means that you don’t need to hunt down and install individual codec or codec packs to play a video or audio file. VLC comes built-in with most, if not all, of the codecs you will ever need. One of the great things about VLC is that it can play damaged files or files with missing pieces. Beside all of the good things about VLC, the new version 1....

Sync tabs For example, in Blue, it seems that Microsoft is borrowing a feature from the Google Chrome and Firefox playbook. That is, sync tabs, an early version of IE11 shows an option called “Show synced tabs” and it basically means that open tabs can now follow you between PCs when you are signed-in, including when you’re using your Surface tablet. View downloads Then we have another feature called “View downloads” that will be easily accessible from the wrench menu in the modern UI version of IE....

In addition, the company talked about the next version of Android codenamed Marshmallow with improvements on the user-interface, notifications, search, and there are also new advancements on power to allow battery to last longer for new and older devices. Google also revealed that it’s updating its music service. Now Google Play Music will be available for free for 90 days for those who purchase one of the new phones, and there is also a family plan for $14....

As part of the April 2019 Update development, the company released two new previews, including build 18342 and build 18343 with new features and improvements. However, you won’t see anything significant as the update is getting close to completion, and Microsoft is now focus on fixing bugs and making sure the update is ready for the masses. In addition, Windows 10 build 18841 rolled out this week for those devices using the Skip Ahead option....

The company announced Microsoft Lists, which is a new service create simple, smart, and flexible lists to track information and organize your work, just like Airtable. Windows 10 now has a package manager known as the “Windows Package Manager” (winget), which allows you to download apps using the command line experience. The service has been designed for developers, but anyone can use it to install apps. Also, as part of Build 2020, Microsoft announced Project Reunion, the latest attempt to unify the development of traditional desktop apps (Win32) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps to create apps that run across multiple devices running Windows 10 without having to choose a platform....

Microsoft released Windows 10 build 19559 in the Fast ring for Insiders with a lot of fixes and improvements. Windows 10 version 2004 is almost complete, and you can check the best features and improvements coming with the next feature update in this guide. In case you missed it, you can also download the pick of the week theme: Stunning Waterfalls to refresh your desktop. And you can now download the first wave of Xbox games as part of the Games with Gold program for February 2020....

According to the health dashboard website, Windows 10 20H2 and version 2004 no longer have any update blocks, which means that it’s now safe to upgrade systems to one of the latest versions. Also, this week, Windows 10 21H1, 20H2, 2004, and older versions received the May 2021 Patch Tuesday update to patch security vulnerabilities. Sources familiar with the project revealed that Microsoft is dropping the Windows 10X development. Instead, the company plans to bring the Windows 10X features to the desktop version of Windows 10....

Windows 10 build 18990 rolled out as part of the 20H1 update with some sign-in improvements as well as changes for File Explorer, Magnifier, and Narrator. In addition, the company released quality update KB4517211 to address a slew of issues with Windows 10 version 1903, and update KB4516077 to fix problems with version 1809, 1803, and older versions. Also, update KB4522016 rolled out to patch a vulnerability with Internet Explorer for virtually every version of Windows 10....

What this new Google service is, we officially still don’t know, what we know so far is that What Do You Love? offers you relevant results in a single page divided in blocks combining an arrange of Google products, for example, if you type Windows 7 in the WDWL search box and click the heart button — Yeah! the heart button… Cute! — Google is going to display: Set alerts, Gmail, books, images, YouTube videos, Google Translate, and any other Google service that includes some relevance to the search term with, of course, content that may answer your search....

Windows Phone Update 3 early access considerations Although everyone likes to have the latest and greatest, when we are talking about a pre-release, support, stability, and requirements are limited. Before installing, make sure you understand the following considerations: The Windows Phone 8 Preview is only meant for developers, who are registered, that means having a Dev Center account, a registered unlocked phone, or an App Studio account. Installing the preview update for your phone may void warranty with either the device manufacturer and/or carrier....

Today, even our smartphones and tablets offer more pixels than our desktop monitors. This introduced a new challenge for the operating system, while Windows 8.1 offered good automatic scaling there was one big issue: if you had a multi-monitor PC setup, you could only apply a DPI scaling percentage to all your monitors. This meant that if you had a laptop with a high-resolution display (e.g., 4K or QHD+) and a secondary full HD 1080p monitor, the content will not appear at the same scale....

The new build includes changes on Store apps, now apps have the same open and close animations you will find on traditional desktops applications. The software giant continues to implements new icons throughout the operating system and now you’ll see new icons on Control Panel, Device Manager, and other areas. In Windows 10 build 10532, Microsoft noted that is working on improving the inconsistency with the context menus. While Insiders have seen changes in latest preview, build 10357 shows that context menus now drop the white background in favor of light-gray color that integrates much better with the Windows 10 dark theme....

Windows 10 build 14955, according to Microsoft, brings an updated version of Mail & Calendar with new features to let users open emails in a new window. You can use the Quick Actions directly from new email notifications. And you can now also get someone’s attention by using “@” for mentions in the body of the email. In addition, Narrator gets context awareness and several fixes, and there are a bunch of improvements, fixes, and some known issues, which are listed below....

Recently, test build 17133 was made available in the Release Preview as the final version that was supposed to roll out as version 1804 on April 10, but a bug appeared at the eleventh hour that delayed the official launch. Windows 10 build 17134 is the release that replaces build 17133, and the one that now is considered the final version. According to the company, the new build doesn’t introduce any new features, but it bundles the fixes released with build 17133....

Windows 10 build 18334, according to the company, includes new “technology tailor-made for gaming”, a slew of fixes for mouse and keyboard, Settings app, Cortana, Search, Nearby sharing, and language, and this flight ships with some improvements for Narrator. Some of these Narrator changes, include: Narrator now announces headings at all verbosity levels. Narrator now announces the value of the Calendar Date picker control as a user navigates with the Tab or Shift + Tab key....

Windows 10 build 18995, according to the company, is a small update that brings PIN authentication support while in Safe mode. In addition, there’s an updated version of the Your Phone app “Link to Windows” that expands to other phones, including Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, S10 5G, and Fold devices in select global markets. Once the device is linked, you’ll be able to access the Phone screen feature to manage your phone with a keyboard and mouse, and touch gestures....