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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Never a dull moment with Microsoft, where the routine is now impossible thx to all the recent improvements

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Just SMH - Microsoft Office 2013 made file-sharing in the real-world work office horrifically clumsy & complex if not impossible

Get started with Office 2016's streamlined sharing options

Where Office 2013 made file-sharing complex, Office 2016 makes it easy as pie.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2987445/software-productivity/get-started-with-office-2016s-streamlined-sharing-options.html

Ian Paul | @ianpaul Contributor, PCWorld

Sep 30, 2015 7:00 AM

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2013 it included a sharing screen that let you share a document in all kinds of ways. You could share a link over email, get a sharing link, or post the document directly to a social network or blog.

It offered a lot of functionality, but it was a little on the complex side, especially since there were effectively two options to share via email. Plus, you always had to jump back and forth between your document and the Sharing page in Office’s backstage view—the screen you see when you click File. Ugh.

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

In the end, the Windows 10 upgrade failed. No surprise here.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Update: One Win 10 upgrade fail. One success. Fail probably due to a drive failure... On a different computer, the success is working great.

Update 2 August 5, 2015: Two successes. One Win 10 upgrade fail. One success. Fail probably due to a drive failure... On a different computers, the successes are working great.

A friend suggested, “Get an Apple.” I have an Apple and I was a pathetic Apple immigrant. Threw my hands up the air and went back to PC. But Caroline gets along with the Apple just great. Me, not so much. In the end, I gotta get my work finished... My editors do not care what I use to write stories - they just care that I get them written.

In the end, the Windows 10 upgrade failed. No surprise here.

It very well may not be a Windows 10 upgrade failure... I suspect that I am dealing with a drive failure... I'm now trying to upgrade one of my back-up systems... We shall see. The desktop was an upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10. The backup system is going t go from Win 8.1 to 10... Hoping for a different result.

One Win 10 upgrade fail. One success. Fail probably due to a drive failure... On a different computer, the success is working great.

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My Windows 10 download is taking forever. I'm pretty discouraged

One Win 10 upgrade fail. One success. Fail probably due to a drive failure... On a different computer, the success is working great.

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Thursday, April 09, 2015

Et tu, Microsoft? Company's default setting will now let third parties take your data.

Et tu, Microsoft? Company's default setting will now let third parties take your data.:

By Dave Smith

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2015/04/03/et_tu_microsoft_company_s_default_setting_will_now_let_third_parties_take.html?wpsrc=slatest_newsletter&sid=5388f43add52b8e41100cd7e

This post originally appeared on Business Insider.

Microsoft on Friday updated its approach to “Do Not Track” for all future versions of its Web browsers, saying it “will no longer enable it as the default state.”

“Do Not Track” is all about protecting your online privacy. It’s a simple mechanism on most Web browsers that lets you opt out of tracking from third parties, including websites you don’t visit.

As the standards around “Do Not Track” keep evolving, so do the public policies. TheWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) just offered up a new draft that sheds light on the new standard (Microsoft bolded the final line for added emphasis):

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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Windows 10 preview download is available now | PCWorld

Windows 10 preview download is available now | PCWorld: "Mark Hachman
@markhachman Jan 23, 2015"

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2874800/microsofts-windows-10-build-9926-with-cortana-is-live-now.html#tk.nl_pcwbest

A new build of Windows 10 preview is available for download, Microsoft announced Friday morning. Now the world (those who've signed up for the preview, that is) can sample what analysts and journalists previewed on Wednesday.

The build will download automatically for Windows Insiders overnight, or you can get it now by going to PC Settings > Update and recovery > Preview builds and clicking the Check Now button. If you need to start from the very beginning—in other words, you’ve never installed Windows 10 at all—check out our tutorial on how to install Windows 10 from scratch. You can also obtain the ISO for a clean install or virtual machine download here.

In his blog post, Microsoft’s Gabriel Aul warned that not everything Microsoft talked about earlier this week would be available.

“Some of the new features that Joe demoed on Wednesday will be available for our Windows Insiders starting today with our newest build – 9926,” Aul wrote. “However, not everything you saw on Wednesday is included in this new build. Much is still in-progress and we’re getting it out to you as fast as we can – so you can try it out and give us feedback. Over the course of the next few builds, you will see us refine Windows 10 and continue to improve the experiences as well as quality and stability.”

What Microsoft showed off in Redmond was Build 9924, which we played with as part of our preview. In a nutshell, here’s what you should expect in the new 9926 build: read more here - http://www.pcworld.com/article/2874800/microsofts-windows-10-build-9926-with-cortana-is-live-now.html#tk.nl_pcwbest

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Monday, April 28, 2014

The Windows 8.1 Start menu could show up this summer | PCWorld

The Windows 8.1 Start menu could show up this summer | PCWorld:

Ian Paul@ianpaul

Apr 24, 2014

"The score is 2-1 in favor of the Start menu landing on Windows 8.1 while the weather's still warm. Following reports claiming the Start menu would appear this fall, two well known Microsoft watchers say the highly anticipated update could be here before the summer is out.

Both the Verge's Tom Warren and ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley report that Microsoft hopes to deliver the Start menu to Windows 8.1 users by August." Read more; http://www.pcworld.com/article/2147013/start-menu-coming-to-windows-8-1-this-fall-not-so-fast-windows-watchers-say.html#tk.nl_today

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Friday, April 04, 2014

Rejoice! The Start menu is coming back to Windows | PCWorld

Rejoice! The Start menu is coming back to Windows | PCWorld: "
Brad Chacos @BradChacos Apr 2, 2014" You heard right, devout desktop lovers: The Start menu is coming back to Windows, Microsoft operating system head Terry Myerson announced at Build on Wednesday.

The details are hazy, aside from the fact that it's going to be pushed to all Windows 8.1 users as an update at some point in the future. But it's a-coming—though it's not quite the Start menu you're familiar with. Beyond the traditional mouse-friendly features, the Windows 8.1 Start menu will be crammed with Live Tiles, along with the ability to find and install Microsoft's universal Windows apps, also announced Wednesday.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2138443/rejoice-the-start-menu-is-coming-back-to-windows.html#tk.nl_pcwbest

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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Windows 8.1 update due in spring with concessions to mouse and keyboard users | PCWorld

Windows 8.1 update due in spring with concessions to mouse and keyboard users | PCWorld: Melissa Riofrio @MRiofrioPCW Feb 23, 2014"

BARCELONA—At a Sunday press event prior to Mobile World Congress, Microsoft vice president Joe Belfiore led with bright news about Windows 8: Microsoft has sold 200 million licenses (more than all of OS X’s user base, he noted); users have downloaded 4 million apps from the Windows Store; and 40 percent of Windows 8 machines are touch-enabled.

But for the 60 percent of Windows 8 machines still not touch-enabled, Belfiore conceded, users’ “satisfaction level is lower.” So when the Microsoft executive confirmed rumors of a Windows 8.1 update this spring, he also detailed three major improvements that would come with it. First and foremost will be features to give mouse-and-keyboard diehards a break.

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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

How To Fix The "You need permission to perform this action." Error On Windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3jHe3IYXQ

The "You need permission to perform this action" error message in the Microsoft Windows 7 and 8 operating systems is a horrible-horrible problem.

One wonders why Microsoft does not fix it? Folders and files of which I had routine and easy access in the past are often and unexpectedly unavailable to me now that I am using Windows 7. It is totally nuts...

This video was quite helpful... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3jHe3IYXQ
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

How to disable Office 2013 start screen by Rick Broida at PC World

How to disable Office 2013's start screen | PCWorld:

Rick Broida @justrick Mar 20, 2013

There's a lot to like about the new Office 2013. Heck, some might argue that Outlook alone is worth the price of admission.

One thing that bothers me, however, is the startup screen that appears when you launch Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. It's a nice addition, and a quick way to access recent documents or create a new one using a template, but it's not how I like to work.

Fortunately, it's fairly easy to configure Office to bypass that screen for the aforementioned three programs. Here's how, using Word as an example: … Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2031432/how-to-disable-office-2013s-start-screen.html

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Friday, October 18, 2013

Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post: Windows 8.1 launches, with some familiar touches

Windows 8.1 launches, with some familiar touches

By Hayley Tsukayama, Thursday, October 17, 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/windows-81-launches-with-some-familiar-touches/2013/10/17/5801ae38-373a-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

Microsoft’s latest operating system update, Windows 8.1 is now available. The new update brings back at least one of the familiar touches that users missed after the company launched its major system overhaul, Windows 8, last year: the start button.

The button has become a sort of rallying point for Windows 8 critics who were not big fans of the decision to change the look of the operating system to a grid-like pattern meant to work on touchscreens in addition to a keyboard and mouse. Consequently, it was one of the main rollbacks of the Windows 8.1 update, along with the ability to boot the computer straight to the desktop rather than to the Microsoft 8 start screen.

The return of the start button, however, doesn’t mean the return of the start button menu — instead … Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/windows-81-launches-with-some-familiar-touches/2013/10/17/5801ae38-373a-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Windows 8 adoption slows; boost sought with update | PCWorld

Windows 8 adoption slows; boost sought with update | PCWorld: "By Computerworld staff, Computerworld

Aug 3, 2013

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045884/windows-8-adoption-slows-boost-sought-with-update.html#tk.nl_today

Windows 8's user share growth slowed significantly in July, hinting at further trouble for the struggling operating system, new statistics from an analytics company show.

The operating system's user share grew by the smallest month-over-month amount since its launch in October 2012, said Web measurement vendor Net Applications. At the end of July, Windows 8 accounted for 5.9 percent of all systems running Windows, an increase of three-tenths of a percentage point compared to June.

From November 2012 through July 2013, Windows 8's user share grew by an average of six-tenths of a point each month, with lows in February and April of five-tenths and a high in June of nine-tenths of a percentage point.

July's increase was about a third of June's." ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045884/windows-8-adoption-slows-boost-sought-with-update.html#tk.nl_today

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Sunday, August 04, 2013

Week in Review -- Microsoft's Unhappy Family & Samsung's Steroid Specs - Eric Johnson - General - AllThingsD

Week in Review -- Microsoft's Unhappy Family & Samsung's Steroid Specs - Eric Johnson - General - AllThingsD:

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Friday, June 28, 2013

PCWorld: Hands On with Windows 8.1: Microsoft's 'do-over' OS is loaded with features

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		Hands On with Windows 8.1: Microsoft's 'do-over' OS is loaded with features 06.26.2013 9:00 AM Windows 8.1 isn't just an update—it's an apology. But if you didn't like Windows 8, don't expect the new release to change your mind.

		Windows 8.1 apps: New additions and crucial updates 06.27.2013 3:26 AM Windows 8.1 Preview shows much-improved internal apps, and the Windows Store is much friendlier and more filled-out than it used to be.

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		Microsoft misses the mark as its Build 2013 keynote muddles the Windows 8.1 message 06.26.2013 12:39 PM Developers, developers, developers shouldn't be your audience when you're announcing a product that's crucial for your company's future.

		Microsoft unwilling to kill one of its Internet Explorer twins 06.27.2013 6:48 AM Why are there two versions of Internet Explorer within Windows 8.1? Because users want them, IE11 chief says. Plus: a slimmer SkyDrive.

		New Windows 8 PCs use touchscreens, hybrid designs and Haswell to capture attention 06.24.2013 3:01 AM Vendors are trying to innovate their way out of the PC doldrums. Let's look at the curiosities they've created.

		Review: Three widescreen HD monitors that pivot from portrait to landscape 06.26.2013 3:30 AM We go eyes-on with new models from HP, NEC, and Samsung, whose expansive screens and pivoting hinges give you more options for viewing content or images.

		Kinect for Windows developer's kit slated for November, adds 'green screen' technology 06.26.2013 9:30 AM Microsoft's Kinect for Windows will be released in final form by next year, and include "green screen" technology to strip out backgrounds from behind users.

		Is Nvidia's Shield worth $300? We debate the math 06.21.2013 3:03 AM This new gaming handheld plays Android apps and streams PC games, but it costs $300. Is it worth the money? Two PCWorld writers argue each side.

		The 10 biggest PC game disappointments 06.21.2013 3:30 AM Some games garner so much fan attention that they can't possibly live up to hype they've generated. Here are ten games from recent history that created high hopes but ended up being big letdowns.

		Razer's new Surround software turns your stereo headset into a 7.1 home theater 06.25.2013 8:00 AM This virtual 7.1 surround-sound software does a decent job of simulating a much more expensive pair of surround-sound headphones.

		Five essential security measures to protect your business—no matter its size 06.20.2013 3:30 AM Take these basic steps to safeguard your business's invaluable information assets.

		Cybercrooks target SMBs with new types of attacks 06.24.2013 8:18 AM As money and corporate information have morphed from hard currency and blueprints to digital files, small and midsized businesses have become the new banks to rob. In fact, bank robberies across the U.S. have plummeted from 9,400 in 1991 to just 3,870 last year. As Doug Johnson of the American Bankers Association puts it: "As more and more transactions become electronic, more bank crimes become electronic."

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Migrating to Windows 8 by Kevin E. Dayhoff June 12, 2013 www.TheTentacle.com

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5828

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2013/06/migrating-to-windows-8-by-kevin-e.html

Labels: Dayhoff Media The Tentacle, Technology, Technology Computers, Technology Microsoft, Technology Microsoft Windows 8

My latest experience with Microsoft has left me with the technological equivalent of post-traumatic stress disorder. In the last six-months I have migrated light years from the Microsoft Windows XP operating system to Windows 8. It was not easy.

I’m told the twitching and the nightmares will stop with the passage of time and copious amounts of coffee. When I finally pulled the plug on my old laptop for the last time, I had this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach as if I had just taken a loved-one off of life support.

That feeling was quickly replaced by the sheer terror of dealing with an improved computer system in which I could no longer easily perform so many of the functions I had executed effortlessly in the previous, now obsolete, system.

The Microsoft Windows operating systems have been a major force in the modern-era of technology and personal computing. The roots of the software system date back to 1981, although the first version, Windows 1.0 was not available for consumer use until late in 1985.

One of the most popular and widely used systems in history has been the Windows XP system, which was introduced in August 2001, and dominated the market until Windows 7 (released in 2009,) overtook it in August 2012. Windows 8 was released in October 2012.

According to multiple media accounts … read more: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5828

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Sunday, June 09, 2013

How to restore Google Chrome's missing buttons in Windows 8

By Rick Broida @justrick Apr 12, 2013 http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033800/how-to-restore-google-chromes-missing-buttons-in-windows-8.html

Now that I'm running Windows 8 for at least part of my workday (much to my chagrin), I'm doing my best to make it hospitable. And for me, the first step is installing Google Chrome, my preferred Web browser.

So I dropped into Desktop, fired up Internet Explorer, downloaded and installed Chrome, and set it as my default browser.

Then I ran it, signed into my Google account, and smiled as my synced bookmarks appeared like magic. This is how the world should work.

But, wait, what's this? Something's missing. Three somethings, in fact. When I went to minimize Chrome, I discovered that the Minimize button was gone. And so were the Maximize and Close buttons. That whole area in the upper-right corner of the browser? Empty!

What. In. The. World.

I'm going to forgo my usual heavy sighing, eye rolling, and Windows 8 griping and just tell you how to fix this: … http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033800/how-to-restore-google-chromes-missing-buttons-in-windows-8.html

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Contributing Editor Rick Broida writes about business and consumer technology. Ask for help with your PC hassles at hasslefree@pcworld.com, or try the treasure

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