Today, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Windows 95 and take a quick look back at some of its most notable features as well as their impact on Windows 10 today.   Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995 and was a significant milestone for Microsoft in both its past as well as its …

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Just three weeks after the public release of Windows 10, Brandwatch has taken the pulse of social media reactions to Microsoft’s latest operating system. While the verdict is overwhelmingly positive, there are some notable negative reactions to the latest Windows release. The social technology company reports that, after “analyzing 7,000 authors online and on social media, we’ve …

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Now that Windows 10 has shipped and is reportedly running on 50 million devices, attention will no doubt turn to the successor to Windows 10, dubbed Redstone; but before that, Threshold Wave 2 is expected to arrive by October. We know that Windows 10 Mobile and Windows Server 2016 has already moved to the Threshold 2 (TH2) branch, and the next …

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With the launch of Windows 10, Cortana has arrived on the desktop. While the assistant can do many things, one of the key features is being able to act upon voice commands. But if you find Cortana not responding correctly or having trouble picking up your voice, you may want to ‘retrain’ her – and here’s …

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Last week Microsoft pushed the big red button that released Windows 10 to the world and while the company initially announced 14 million installs after 24 hours, sources are telling us that the mark has surpassed 25 million and may be as high as 27 million. While the peak of 1500 installs per second has slowed, seeing that more …

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Microsoft is announcing a new program called Cortana Analytics, which handles big data and transforms it into actionable information. Cortana Analytics is Microsoft’s way of giving easy access to machine learning algorithms; earlier today we reported on the company’s plans to make machine learning more accessible to everyone. Cortana Analytics is part of that strategy. The …

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Later this week, Microsoft will release Windows 10 and one of the new features that ships with the OS is Cortana. The company has high hopes for the digital personal assistant and to make her feel a bit more human and a little bit less robotic, she has a new game that you can play with her. …

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Microsoft is going all-out with the launch of Windows 10 this month, holding special events in honor of Windows Insiders in 13 different cities and a blitz of marketing; including a plethora of TV and digital ads aimed at consumers. They have not, however, forgotten the less fortunate in their celebrations. Coinciding with the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft …

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