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Operating System, Windows

Windows 10 2004: These are the features we’re deprecating or dropping, says Microsoft

May 29, 2020

Via: ZDnet

With the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, version 2004, now released, Microsoft has detailed the Windows 10 features it’s no longer developing and features it’s removed. Features that are no longer under active development are those that Microsoft might remove […]


Operating System, Windows

Microsoft could finally update an essential Windows 10 feature

March 10, 2020

Via: Tech Radar

One of the most essential features of Windows 10 – the operating system’s volume controls – could be getting a big overhaul in the near future. As Windows Latest reports, a new preview build of Windows 10, Build 19577, contains […]


Operating System, Windows

Windows 10 updates: Microsoft kills off Skip Ahead ring for Insiders

November 6, 2019

Via: ZDnet

Ahead of the upcoming Windows 10 November 2019 Update release, Microsoft has shuffled its preview rings and will now no longer offer Skip Ahead. Previously, Microsoft offered the Fast Ring (less stable), Slow Ring (more stable), the Skip Ahead ring, […]


Operating System, Windows

Microsoft decides expiring passwords are no longer useful for Windows 10

April 25, 2019

Via: Tech Radar

Microsoft apparently now believes that having passwords expire – in other words, a system whereby the user is forced to change their login password every, say, six months – is not a useful security measure. In a new draft piece […]


Operating System, Windows

Windows 10 updates could be installed much more quickly in the future

February 23, 2018

Via: Tech Radar

Microsoft is working to make the major updates for Windows 10 more streamlined, so that these currently twice-yearly upgrades don’t take nearly as long to install and configure. That’s according to Dona Sarkar, head of the Windows Insider testing program, […]