A New Open Source and Integration Mindset at Microsoft
By joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), as announced two weeks ago, Microsoft clearly shows that a new mindset, new approach has taken over. My partner Ed said in one of our recent Teams meetings...
View ArticleWindows 10 Pro ARM64 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+ by Guest Author Toni Fasth
As you might already be aware, some very clever Windows users and tinkerers have managed to run a full Windows 10 ARM64 desktop operating system on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+ with the help of some...
View ArticleWeekly Windows Newsbytes — Week 19/2019
New Insider Builds 18894 and 18895 This week, we saw an unexpected flurry of Insider Preview releases, including Fast Ring + Skipahead Build 18894 on Wednesday, May 8, followed in short order by Build...
View ArticlePowerToys Returning to Windows 10
Last week, Ms unveiled a GitHub repository named PowerToys. Though that repository has no releases just yet, the overview mentions (and links to) the Windows 95 era PowerToys project (Wikipedia), and...
View ArticleToolkit Item: Chocolatey Package Manager
Chocolatey is a third-party package manager for Windows that can automate installation of most such programs through the Command Prompt or PowerShell. Great stuff!
View ArticleCheck Out PowerShell V7.0.0-preview.1
Earlier this year — April 7, 2019 to be specific — MS announced PowerShell 7. Earlier editions of this development fork had been called “PowerShell Core” to distinguish it from the built-in version...
View ArticleMS Readies Defender Name Change
A name change from Windows Defender to Microsoft Defender and at least one MacOS Defender offering (Advanced Threat Protection, or ATP) strongly suggest that Defender has cross-platform tendencies if...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Linux – from cancer to revenue source
Things at Microsoft have for sure changed since Steve Ballmer‘s, then CEO at Microsoft, infamous “Linux is a cancer” statement in a commercial back in 2001. Whereas Microsoft earlier saw Linux as...
View ArticleGetting Into PowerToys
Learning that there's a new shortcut key item in the PowerToys collection, I quickly realize I need to learn how to drive the UI before I can do anything useful. Sigh.
View ArticlePowerToys Preview v.0.16.0 Gets New Goodies
A new PowerToys Preview is out. V.0.16.0 includes 4 new PowerToys and improvements and bug fixes for old ones. The total collection is up to 8 items now, with 4 new items added this time 'round.
View ArticlePowerToys v0.17.0 Gains Update Check
With the latest version of PowerToys, Microsoft has added a "check for updates" button to its Settings page. This makes it easier than ever to keep the toolset current. I'm a proponent of even further...
View ArticleLinux and Windows – Best friends forever?
Ed Bott, a globally known tech writer and author, described last week on ZDNet how Microsoft helped him to install Ubuntu Linux. Quoting Mr. Bott: Anyone who aspires to understand the modern computing...
View ArticleThoughts on Updating PowerToys (Preview)
If you want to update PowerToys, be warned that some applications may need to let go of files that its installer touches during installation. That means you'll sometimes be asked to close such...
View ArticleWindows 10 Version 2004 Developer VMs Available
Now that Windows 10 Version 2004 is publicly released, Microsoft also offers free, ready-to-run developer evaluation versions of Windows 10 Enterprise in VM form for VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and...
View ArticleVentoy 1.0.15 Adds GPT Support and More
The amazing Ventoy bootable installer tool version 1.0.15 got released to GitHub on July 9, 2020. You’ll want to grab a copy at your earliest convenience. This release can build a GPT formatted...
View ArticlePowerToys v0.19.2 Gets Installer Right
To my astonishment and delight the PowerToys team has fixed ALL of the installer oddities I've reported in its latest release v0.19.2. You can now sit back, relax, and it takes of itself on its own....
View ArticleMicrosoft Open Source Website Makes Debut
Microsoft's increasingly active and supportive presence in the Open Source community gets its own website, too. Check it out at opensource.microsoft.com. Good stuff abounding there!
View ArticleMicrosoft Makes Fuzz Testing Tool Open Source
Fuzzing is a technique that deliberately generates randomized inputs to code under test, and seeks to exercise (and violate) all possible code paths. This makes it a peachy technology for automated...
View ArticlePowerToys Offers Survey, Goes to v0.23.0
Three different PowerToys stories pop at around the same time: a new release, a user input survey on upcoming tools, and a "functional spec" for Video/Image capture. Good stuff!
View ArticleAdmin Toolkit: DriverStore Explorer (RAPR.exe) V0.11.42 Update
The excellent GitHub project Driver Store Explorer gets an update to version V.0.11.42. If you have it installed, get current; if you don't have it installed, it's worth getting to know (and using...
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