By Ryan Dube at MakeUseOf.com…
You’ve got a presentation due in a few days and you really want to impress the boss. You want to show your data in a way that’s easy to understand, but also visual and impressive. The only way to do that is to choose the right chart for your data.
This will come in handy. By Rod Trent at WinSuperSite.com…
…However, for those that want to do image and video capture on-the-cheap, Microsoft includes a screen recording utility in Windows 10’s new Xbox app. As you can imagine, this is generally meant for recording Xbox games streamed to a Windows 10 PC, but what’s especially interesting is that the recording utility also works for regular apps.
Source: How To: Use Windows 10’s Screen Recording Utility | Windows 10 content from SuperSite for Windows
One of the more substantive previews of Office 2016 for Mac. By Gavin Phillips at MakeUseOf.com…
The shrouded veil of secrecy has been lifted from the latest edition of Microsoft Office. Excitement for Office 2016 is still lagging behind the Windows 10 enthusiasm camp, but following the July 29 release of Windows 10, attention will return to the world’s most popular productivity suite.
Source: A Microsoft Office 2016 Preview: Smart & Subtle Changes
By Joe Keeley at MakeUseOf.com…
Windows 10 is coming on July 29, and free upgrades are being offered to a lot of existing Windows users. But what exactly does Windows 10 offer and is it a worthwhile progression?
Addressing one of the shortcomings of the most recent version of Windows 10.
By Christian Cawley at MakeUseOf.com…
Windows 10 is coming, and with it a bunch of new features. But wherever you find new features, you’ll also find holes, where old favorites have been deprecated. With Windows 10, the Windows Media Center will no longer be supported. This means that if you have it installed, WMC will stop working when you upgrade to Windows 10. Not ideal, especially if Windows Media Center was your favored solution after cutting the cord.
Source: 5 Alternatives to Windows Media Center for Windows 10
Microsoft Outlook app for iOS and Android is here, dropping in the final puzzle piece to the company’s “Office everywhere” vision.
via The new Outlook mobile app aims to be your all-in-one mail and calendar suite | Macworld.
As much as I like Windows 10, so far, I’m also pleased to see Microsoft acknowledging the need for differentiating between customers when it comes to rolling out updates and features.
By Peter Bright at ArsTechnica.
Windows 10’s updates and maintenance are following a different, better path to all prior Windows releases: one with more regular updates and quicker access to new features for those who want it, while still offering enterprises a slower pace of delivery. With the first update to the Windows 10 Technical Preview a month ago, Microsoft also enabled a two-speed update track for the million or so members of the Windows Insider program.
via Latest Windows 10 update shows how rapid releases work in practice | Ars Technica.
I’m a big fan of Microsoft and Windows. Their products are usually solid and make a good enterprise computing solution. Windows 8 is their first OS where I have agreed with critics that the UI is just too problematic. Andrew Cunningham at ArsTechnica offers an accurate picture of Windows 10 and its relationship to Windows 8. From ArsTechnica.com…
The desktop environment in Windows 8.1 is pretty good.
This was not the message that Microsoft conveyed at its Windows 10 launch event last week, a presentation that had Microsoft’s historically change-averse but financially important business customers in mind. Whether the company was looking forward to multiple desktops and Continuum or backward to the Start menu and the command prompt, Microsoft’s message was clear: we have finished undoing all that stuff you didn’t like.
via Windows 10 doesn’t fix the desktop—it fixes Windows 8’s reputation | Ars Technica.