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Windows 10 Build 11082.1000 in Preview, 10586.36 in Production
18 Dec 2015 -
Win10: Upgrade Now or Upgrade Tonight. Really?
16 Dec 2015 -
Get Win10 ISOs from TechBench
14 Dec 2015
Report from the trenches on the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview (11082.1000) and a new cumulative update for the Current Branch version numbered 10586.36.
Users who haven't used the GWX Control Panel to remove the "Get Windows 10" stuff from Windows 7 or 8.1 systems are now faced with an interesting choice when that runtime facility triggers in the ...
For some purposes the compressed electronic software download (esd) file format that MS uses for some Windows 10 installers won't do: a real Windows image (.wim) file is required. Here are several ...
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Understanding WaaS (Windows 10 as a Service)
11 Dec 2015 -
SCCM Rolls Up to Windows 10 1511 Release Level
09 Dec 2015 -
DISM Does Updates, Too!
07 Dec 2015 -
Ouch! SFC and DISM may disagree in Build 10586.17
04 Dec 2015 -
US Gov't Usage Data: Win10 Grabbing Marketshare from XP and 7
02 Dec 2015 -
Windows Administrivia: The Case of the Missing BIOS Access
30 Nov 2015 -
As Win8.1 Closes in on XP, Win10 Jumps into the Marketshare Game
27 Nov 2015
I'm currently on tap to develop a Webinar for Spiceworks that's sponsored by Microsoft on a number of Windows 10 topics (I'll add an update to the end of this post when I find out the broadcast ...
For the first time ever, MS has updated System Center Configuration Manager for Windows 10, and has even adopted Windows 10 (1511) version numbering. Lots of interesting additions to the product ...
Later last Friday (12/4), MS fired off KB3122947, labeled "Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems." At first, I thought nothing of it, after getting it installed on a handful of ...
Normally, the system file checker (SFC) and the deployment image servicing and management (DISM) facilities in Windows march in lockstep: here, I find a case where DISM says the component store is ...
A recent set of data from the US Government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP), shows clearly what common sense says is inevitable: that Windows 10's share of desktop users comes mostly at the ...
As is often the case on a holiday weekend, I like to tinker with my PCs. This Thanksgiving weekend, I found myself wanting to access the BIOS on my production PC with its Gigabyte X77X-UD3H ...
Every now and then, I like to check in on the Desktop Operating System Market Share pie chart over at NetMarketShare.com. This morning, I had to fiddle the parameters a bit to get the site to show ...
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New Cumulative Update Restores Build 10586, Incremented to .14
25 Nov 2015 -
Media Creation Tool and MSDN Win10 Versions Diverge
24 Nov 2015 -
Cumulative Updates Increment Win10 Build Numbers: Implications?
20 Nov 2015 -
Identifying Windows Images/Installers/ISO files
18 Nov 2015 -
Build 10586/1511 Makes Its Debut: Lessons Learned
13 Nov 2015 -
Updates Galore on 11/10/15, but No Build 10586!
11 Nov 2015 -
Simple Versioning Numbers in Win10 Presage Deployment Changes
09 Nov 2015 -
Another Worthwhile DISM Source "Trick"
04 Nov 2015 -
Gadgets Come Back to Win10 Build 10576
02 Nov 2015 -
Are Win10 Installs Losing Momentum?
30 Oct 2015 -
Persistent Windows.old Folder Surrenders to Command Line Prompt
28 Oct 2015 -
Win10 Build 10565: Bitten by the Dread KB3105208
26 Oct 2015 -
Stop Win10 from Automatic Reboot After Updates
23 Oct 2015 -
Interesting Network Printer Shenanigans on Win10
21 Oct 2015 -
Simple Trick Fixes DISM /source syntax issues
19 Oct 2015 -
Oops! MS ticks "Upgrade to Win10" in WU on Win7&8.1 PCs
16 Oct 2015 -
MS Eases Activation in Latest Win10 Preview Build
14 Oct 2015 -
NetBIOS Tweak May Be Needed for Win10 NAS Access
09 Oct 2015 -
Surface Book Ups the Hybrid PC Ante
07 Oct 2015 -
Reset/Refresh Windows Update to Fix WU Errors
05 Oct 2015 -
Tips for Reducing Windows' On-disk Footprint
30 Sep 2015 -
Secrets of Win10 Activation & Keys Revealed
28 Sep 2015 -
Win10 Build 10547 Clean & Compact
23 Sep 2015 -
Back'n'forth with Win10 Update 10547
21 Sep 2015 -
Watch Out for Print Driver Changes in Win10!
18 Sep 2015 -
Bogus/Unneeded Driver Count Mounting Up on Win10
16 Sep 2015 -
A ~5GB "pre-emptive" Win10 download?
11 Sep 2015 -
The Politics of Clean Install
09 Sep 2015 -
Oho! Explaining Clean Install for Win10 on Upgraded PCs
07 Sep 2015 -
Network Type Reset After Sleep Still Popping Up in Win10
04 Sep 2015 -
Win10 Windows Snipping Tool Gains "Delay" Feature
02 Sep 2015 -
75 Million Win10 Installations One Month Out
31 Aug 2015 -
Just in Time for Win10, Win8.1 Eclipses XP
26 Aug 2015 -
Windows 10 and Device Drivers Revisited
24 Aug 2015 -
Last Upgrade Anticlimactic + Lessons Learned
20 Aug 2015 -
When CYA Takes Longer Than the Upgrade Install, That's Success!
19 Aug 2015 -
Disk Reformat Leads to 6 for 6 Score on Win10 Upgrade Installs!!!
17 Aug 2015 -
Win10 Upgrade Score So Far: 10 attempts, 3 Failures (1 Fixed)
17 Aug 2015 -
If a Win10 Upgrade Fails, Then What?
14 Aug 2015 -
Win10 Upgrade to Dell XPS27 Easy-Peasy
13 Aug 2015 -
Win10 Stumbles Badly on Surface During Post-Install App Additions
11 Aug 2015 -
Factory Reset Offers Way Out for Surface Pro 3 Catch-22
10 Aug 2015 -
After Raft of Problem Win10 Updates, MS Releases "Show or hide updates" tool
27 Jul 2015 -
Grrrr! No-refuse Synaptics Touchpad Driver Update Kills Device
24 Jul 2015 -
DaaS hasn't found a place in the enterprise
- Executive Editor 23 Jul 2015 -
Driver Difficulties Return in Win10 Build 20140
22 Jul 2015 -
QuickTime Poses Interesting Win10 Update Issue
20 Jul 2015 -
Are high-density servers and VDI meant to be?
- Site Editor 15 Jul 2015 -
Win10 Builds on Hiatus While MS Preps RTM Upgrade
15 Jul 2015 -
RelMon Shows How Drivers Get Handled During Win10 Install
13 Jul 2015 -
Win10 Build 10166 Pops Up
10 Jul 2015 -
First Win10 RTM Candidate Hits
06 Jul 2015 -
Whoa! The Win10 Build "Hat Trick"
03 Jul 2015 -
BAM! Here comes Win10 Build 10159
01 Jul 2015 -
Win10 Build 10158 Lookin' Good
30 Jun 2015 -
Windows Driver Upgrade Tricks
18 Jun 2015 -
Is the Ask Toolbar Malware? Maybe Yes, Maybe No...
15 Jun 2015 -
Working Around Win10/8 Gotchas
12 Jun 2015 -
Welcome to Windows (10) World!
10 Jun 2015 -
Stealth Update Brings Win10 Upgrade Offer to Win7&8 Users
03 Jun 2015 -
Refresh/Recimg.exe Gone Missing in Win10
01 Jun 2015 -
Another DISM tip for compacting Windows installations
26 May 2015 -
Driver Cleanup Slims Down Win10 RecoveryImage
25 May 2015 -
Reflections on Win10 Build 10122
22 May 2015 -
Flaky Synaptics Touchpad Driver Occasions Interesting Encounters
20 May 2015 -
Interesting Theory about Win10 Defender & Update Stacking
18 May 2015 -
Win10: A Half-Month of Streaming Updates
15 May 2015 -
Beware the Ides of May: Beaucoups Updates!!
13 May 2015 -
The Importance of DriverStore Cleanup
11 May 2015 -
With SP4 a'comin', please give us a clamshell keyboard dock
08 May 2015 -
With Windows 10, MS will offer an "Update for Business" service
06 May 2015 -
New Build, New Name, Lots of Win10 Action
01 May 2015 -
Venue 11 Pro Upgrade to 10061 Succeeds without ISOs
29 Apr 2015 -
Win10: Not a "Free Upgrade" But a "Marketing and Promotional Activity"
27 Apr 2015 -
Batting .500 with Win10 Build 10061
24 Apr 2015 -
Internet Access Issues Aren't Always What They Seem
22 Apr 2015 -
What a Late-July Win10 GA Might Mean
20 Apr 2015 -
Win10 to Incorporate Biometrics Boost thru Windows Hello
17 Apr 2015 -
System Refresh Leaves Interesting Items Undone
13 Apr 2015 -
Problematic SP3 Drivers Identified
10 Apr 2015 -
Interesting Benefits of Click-to-Run Office Installation
08 Apr 2015 -
Fixing 2 Win10 Build 10049 Gotchas
06 Apr 2015 -
USB 3.1 Type-C Comes Closer to Your Desktop
03 Apr 2015 -
XP Holding Steady While Win8.* Versions Close In
01 Apr 2015 -
Restoring Surface Pro 3 Poses Interesting Challenges
30 Mar 2015 -
Latest Surface Pro 3 Firmware Update Leads to Learning
27 Mar 2015 -
Getting to Win10 Build 10041, Slowly but Surely
25 Mar 2015 -
Is It Me, or Is It IE?
23 Mar 2015 -
All Pirates Forgiven in Upcoming Free Windows 10 Upgrade
18 Mar 2015 -
New OS Compression in Windows 10
17 Mar 2015
Wow! It's been a whacky week in advance of Turkeyday, with Version 1511 (Build 10586) gone over the weekend, then back again late yesterday. MS even furnished an explanation, which I reproduce from ...
There's been a whole lotta hoopla over the past few days about the sudden disappearance of Version 1511 (Build 10586) from the Media Creation Tool late Friday, 11/21. Of the many stories published ...
On 11/18, later in the day, my Win10 systems picked up a new cumulative update: KB3118754. What made this update interesting was that it led to an increment in the Windows 10 Version number suffix, ...
The more I dig into the DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) command, the more "good stuff" I keep finding. Today's gem comes courtesy of Sergey Tkachenko, whose excellent WinAero.com ...
Early yesterday morning (11/12), some of my Build 10240 Windows 10 PCs began offering access to the 10586/1511 Build. Throughout the course of the day, I was slowly but surely able to get most of ...
Looking at my update history on my Windows 10 production PC this morning, I see a whole slew of updates hit the wire yesterday for that OS, but so far there's no sign of a Threshold 2 release ...
If you take a look at the Winver information from the latest Fast Ring build for Windows Insiders, aka Build 10586, you'll see some additional information in the second line of text therein, just ...
In my continuing efforts to maintain the health and well-being of my Windows 10 installations, I've continued messing about with the built-in deployment image servicing and management tool ...
Goody, Goody: one of the things I liked least about Build 10565 in the Windows 10 lead-up to the Threshold 2 Build scheduled for later this month (November 2015) has apparently been fixed in Build ...
Between a couple of interesting stories reported at NeoWin.net and WinBeta.org recently, the rapid rise of Windows 10 installs appears to be slowing down from its initial explosive rate. Although ...
Among my various desktops, laptops, and tablets, I've got an 16-month-old Surface Pro 3 purchased in August 2014. In working with the boot/sys drive recently I noticed I still had a windows.old ...
If there are some distinctions to which Window10 testers should not aspire to attain, I'd have to say falling prey to the boot/system failures now widely associated with the recent KB3105208 ...
There has been plenty of heated discussion about the way MS has handled updates in Windows 10. Much of that discussion has centered around Windows 10's update push behavior, which forces updates on ...
I've got a Samsung ML-2850 monochrome laser printer on my network, and I've been chasing around various ways to interact with it lately. It seems that unless you've got access to a print server, ...
I've been messing around with the MS Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool since it made its debut along with Windows 8, when it replaced the ImageX tool built into previous Windows ...
Since the latest Patch/Update Tuesday earlier this week on 10/13, the computer trade press has been rife with stories about Microsoft's accidental enablement of the Upgrade to Windows 10 option on ...
I've been steering clear of writing about Windows 10 Preview builds since the 10240 Build became publicly available starting on July 29, mostly in the interests of addressing the Windows 10 version ...
In response to a question from an old friend and colleague, I started researching what might cause a NAS connection to vanish following an upgrade to Windows 10. It turns out that certain network ...
I've been following Microsoft's progress in laying out and elaborating its Surface vision since the first version (and the RT model) emerged in 2012 or thereabouts. I went so far as to buy into the ...
Occasionally, Windows Update will flake out on test or end-user machines that grab updates online. Typical symptoms include error codes like those documented in the KB938205 article "Windows Update ...
Reading one of Sergey Tkachenko's recent Winaero blogs yesterday, I learned that Windows 10 will compress the OS files on a system/boot drive. See his "Reduce the size of your Windows 10 ...
After months of wondering and speculation on this subject, Microsoft has finally published a web page entitled "Activation in Windows 10." It explains how activation works, and is particularly ...
In working with the latest Win10 Insider Preview, I've been forcibly struck by how clean and compact it is. Whereas earlier Windows 10 installations (that is, C:\Windows and its many constituents) ...
I've been working with Windows 10 releases since last Fall (about a year now) and have probably installed more than a dozen different preview releases during that interval. Nearly all of them have ...
Over the past 10 days, I've been chasing down a strange problem with one of my network printers: the excellent Dell 2155cn has been a real workhorse for me for the past three years remained visible ...
OK, I'll admit it: I don't know if Windows Update, DriverUpdate, DriverAgent, or something else is involved, but I'm seeing the number of outdated and/or unneeded (duplicated) drivers mount up in ...
This morning, I read Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' ZDnet story entitled "Windows 10 installer could be on your PC whether you want it or not" with some amusement. Then I asked myself the question "I ...
For years and years, I've subscribed to the notion that a clean Windows install -- as opposed to an upgrade -- can be a desirable thing. In cruising the Web, I see that my belief is still shared by ...
I'd been wondering for some time how one could perform a clean install on an upgraded Windows 10 machine without providing a key. Thanks to the nice folks at the Windows Ten Forums, I found a ...
For months during the Technical and Insider Preview stages of the Win10 version track, I noticed that some of my PCs would switch from Private to Public network status following sleep (tablets, ...
There was a long period in my checkered career as someone who works with and writes about Windows, where I simply couldn't get by without a high-end screen capture tool. For most of that period, in ...
On August 26, 2015, MS made it known that the Windows 10 installed count had surpassed 75 million. A quick look at the calendar shows me that 8/26 is exactly four weeks after 7/29 (the day Windows ...
Every now and then, I like to drop in on the market share stats at NetMarketShare.com to see what's up in the desktop world as monitored via that company's observations of the Internet. When I ...
In my recent efforts to upgrade and/or clean install Windows 10 on a whole passel of PCs lately -- a topic to which all 6 of my previous blog posts here have been devoted, starting on 8/10 -- I've ...
Whew! I'm pleased and relieved to report that my big upgrade push is over now, with all 8 PCs successfully upgraded to Windows 10 in at least one boot-up partition (a couple of my test machines ...
Yesterday afternoon, I sat down in front of my wife's PC -- a mini-ITX box with a mobile Haswell i7, 16 GB RAM, ... -- and fired off my next-to-final Windows 10 upgrade. But first, I performed a ...
OK, I think I've got it figured out. If your PC started on Windows 7 and was then upgraded to Windows 8 (and 8.1 and the Update), it will probably be beneficial to take a step back (or forward) ...
If you did a headcount of PCs here at Chez Tittel, you'd find only 8 of them. "So how is it that Ed has made 10 attempts?" you might be tempted to ask. The old saying: "If at first you don't ...
The question that entitles today's blog post turns out to be more than fuel for idle speculation. I recently spent 9-plus hours trying to upgrade my Lenovo X220 Tablet from Windows 8.1 to Windows ...
In complete and stark contrast to my experience with the Surface Pro 3, the upgrade from Windows 8.1 to 10 on my son's Dell XPS27 went without a single hitch or hiccup. I turned the upgrade via ...
Drat! I wrote too soon, or too optimistically, in yesterday's blog post about the contortions necessary to bring my Surface Pro 3 into "Windows 10 land." After getting more or less everything ...
In case you've been wondering, I've been on vacation since my last post went up on July 27. Though I had a great trip to Germany with my family, I ended up skipping blithely past the Windows 10 RTM ...
Hmmmmm. Looks like I wasn't the only Win10 cowboy stuck out in the pasture with no lasso for a badly-behaved Windows driver updates. Numerous reports surfaced this weekend about an Nvidia graphics ...
Starting on July 22, Windows Update on Win10 Build 10241 started offering me a Synaptics driver update for the touchpad on my Dell Venue 11 Pro 7139. And man, did my system get caught in a crack, ...
DENVER -- Considering all the attention desktop as a service has gotten in the IT world over the last year, the technology has been a big failure. That’s what Brian Madden said in his welcome ...
For the last three builds of Windows 10 (10159, 10162, and 10166) the OS was remarkably well-behaved in installing drivers for my newest PC (a less-than-one-year-old Dell Venue 11 Pro 7139 with an ...
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you already know I'm a big proponent of Secunia products, most notably Secunia's Personal Software Inspector (PSI, but they also have a ...
In his attempt to woo his future wife in the 1985 sci-fi hit Back to the Future, George McFly flubs his pickup line, saying "I'm your density" instead of "I'm your destiny." That classic movie ...
Thanks to Paul Thurrott, I am now hip to Gabe Aul's additions to the Windows Insider updates to the 10166 Build Announcement post, which read as follows: Update 7/13: We’re only a couple of weeks ...
For a while now, I've been speculating about what goes on with device drivers each time a new Win10 Build goes onto one of my test machines. In visiting Reliability Monitor (RelMon) this morning, I ...
Having been distracted by other projects for most of this week, I was pleased to have missed the latest Fast Ring release of Build 10166 by only one day. I got it fired up and running almost ...
As reported on lots of Windows watching sites -- WinBeta and betanews, for example -- a first Windows 10 build numbered 10176, labeled as a release candidate, has made its debut. Most of these ...
Confounding all expectations, MS followed up the wham, bam sequence of two Windows 10 builds on June 30 (10158) and July 1 (10159) with a third build yesterday (July 2: Build 10162). I'm hopeful ...
No sooner did I get Build 10158 installed than did Windows Update inform me that a new fast ring build (10159) was available. That's the smallest build ID increment I've seen so far, and the ...
Upon my return to the office after a week off this morning, I discovered the latest (and probably last) build before the upcoming 7/29 RTM for Windows 10 was available. The first install went ...
Over the years, I've always struggled with some Windows drivers that prove more tricky or difficult to install than others. This goes double for those devices whose vendors provide installable ...
Over the weekend, I saw an interesting news item on the Windows 10 Forums. Entitled "Ask Toolbar gets the banhammer on Windows," it observes that "the Ask Toolbar is a bad thing that nobody wants ...
What with running two Win10 test machines -- a desktop and tablet/convertible -- I've been banging up against the limits of this new software from time to time, and have had to refurbish some ...
When the Win10 flag showed up on my Windows 8.1 machines, perforce I signed up for the upgrade, knowing that I must track the latest and greatest of Windows OSes no matter what. I've read various ...
Two days ago a strange little Windows flag icon appeared in the notification bar on my Windows 8.1 PCs. A quick mouse-over on the icon produced the text "Get Windows 10." An equally quick click ...
If you've been reading this blog lately, you've seen my recent discovery that duplicate or outmoded drivers in the Windows 10 DriverStore can unnecessarily bulk up the size of the RecoveryImage ...
While perusing the postings over at the Windows 10 Forums earlier, I caught an item there entitled "Trimming down Win10TP" that taught me a new way to use the Deployment Image Servicing and ...
When I wrote a blog post on May 11 entitled "The Importance of DriverStore Cleanup," little did I know the post would turn out to be both useful and prophetic. But after investigating the disk ...
The last couple of days have been exciting in my part of the world, mostly as a consequence of downloading, installing, and absorbing the latest Windows 10 build, 10122, which made its debut two ...
I'm using a Dell Venue 11 Pro 7139 as one of my two primary Windows 10 test machines at the moment, and it has become a recent focus for some interesting driver issues. Late last week, MS unleashed ...
In my last post here, I observed the number and frequency of updates for Windows 10 arriving via an unthrottled and untrammeled Windows Update. By far, the biggest number of items in the 15-day ...
In the brave new world of Windows 10, updates are no longer batched, but pop up when and as they appear. I decided to take a look at what that means by examining the Update Histories for my two ...
Realizing that yesterday was "Update Tuesday," I opened up my update history on a production Windows 8.1 PC this morning, and found 40 (!) updates of varying shapes and sizes had been installed ...
I've blogged repeatedly here about a great little free software tool called DriverStore Explorer (RAPR.EXE). In Windows environments all the way up to and including Windows 10, any drivers that ...
In the wake of recent MS conferences like Build 2015 and Ignite, the pundits and prognosticators seem surprisingly unanimous with two short-term predictions. First, Windows 10 seems bound for ...
One of the most interesting tidbits to emerge from the Ignite conference so far has been Microsoft's announcement of its "Windows Update for Business" service. Terry Myerson himself, Microsoft's ...
Whoa! Has it really only been two days since the last time I posted? It seems like a lot more time has gone by than that, but perhaps that's because I've been pounding away at Win10 issues over ...
Just for grins, I decided to re-try the Windows Update download for Windows 10 Build 10061 on my Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 yesterday afternoon. The last two times I'd tried, I'd not sat in front of ...
Although Microsoft has itself described its upcoming plans to provide a no-cost copy of Windows 10 to Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices to those who move up in the first year ...
If something happens once, it's impossible to tell if it's an anomaly or an expected behavior. Let it happen even one more time though, and a suspicion of pattern or predictability can't help but ...
Last week, my wife told me the Internet was running slowly, so of course I checked the Ookla Speed Test page to see what was what. When speeds in the usual range manifested, I assumed the problem ...
Lots of sources on the Web are reporting on a comment that Lisa Siu, CEO of AMD, let slip during the Q&A portion of a recent earnings call last Friday, which I reproduce here in its entirety: ...
Back in mid-March, Joe Belfiore (VP of the OS Group at MS) posted about a new biometric authentication technology to Blogging Windows. It's called "Windows Hello" and although it has yet to make ...
In experimenting with a full system recovery recently on my Microsoft Surface Pro 3, I've been trying various methods to get from a current bad system state to a current good one. But while a ...
Over the past two weeks, I've been engaged in a part-time exercise to rebuild my Surface Pro 3 from a clean re-install of Windows 8.1 Update 1. This has proved to be an interesting exercise for ...
I've just recently rebuilt my Surface Pro 3 installation, and am still recovering from that aftermath. Upon discovering a link to "Click-to-Run" installation for MS Office Professional 2013 on my ...
I've got two test machines upon which I'm running the latest Win10 build, namely 10049. In getting those machines up and running, I've found myself subject to 2 inadvertent gotchas along the way. ...
"Why," you may be thinking as you read the title of this blog post, "would I care about a high-speed interface on my desktop when it's most likely to show up first and foremost on notebooks and ...
Gadzooks! Has it really been 32 months since Windows 8 was unleashed on the world? Indeed it has, and supplanted even, with Windows 8.1 in February of 2014. But only now are Windows 8 versions ...
In the wake of last week's firmware updates for the Surface Pro 3, released outside the usual "Update/Patch Tuesday" timeframe, I decided to upgrade the drivers on that machine as well. I shouldn't ...
When I saw through the various news outlets that Microsoft had released an out-of-band Firmware update for the Surface Pro 3, I knew it was probably worth jumping onto sooner rather than later. ...
Last week, build 10041 for Windows 10 hit the fast ring for early adopters. Yesterday, it hit the slow ring for all adopters. I was able to upgrade my Windows 10 desktop without any issues during ...
In reading about a new version of and model for web browsing in Windows 10, I often find myself nodding along and thinking "'Bout time!" Over the past two years, I've been making a steady move away ...
A Reuters story from the WinHEC conference in China has got the Windows press and blog environment abuzz enough that it's being widely re-reported in most such outlets. In the story, Terry ...
Over at Thurrott.com this morning, I found a simply fascinating story about a new version of "OS compression" that's making its debut in Windows 10. The ultimate source for this info is a March 16 ...