device compatibility

Today we are excited to share that Groove Music support for Sonos is now available! This means you can use Groove to listen to your favorite music on your Sonos speakers. Enjoying Groove Music on Sonos is easy. Get started by using your Groove Music Pass (free 30-day trial) or by accessing...

I recently upgraded from Win 7. I had all upgrades for Win 7. When I DL'd Win10, it took about 12 hours and I assume that was normal for my DL speed, 786, I believe. Went well and I had no problems and saw that Win10 did appear to run faster than Win7. When I tried to connect a scanner, Epson...

Back in March, we announced the new Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard – the super portable and ultra-thin lightweight keyboard designed to work with virtually any of your devices. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard is now available at the...

Today, I had the honor of speaking to thousands of our development partners at the Build conference about our plans to make Windows 10 the most attractive development platform ever. It is always thrilling to see so many developers excited about Microsoft – and this year, about Windows 10. If you...

Ready to try Windows 10 on your HP Stream 7 or another compressed OS device? This how-to will walk you through that process. read more Continue reading...

This blog was written by Kevin Dallas, General Manager, Windows IoT Group. Today the Link Removed announced the retail availability of their new board, the Raspberry Pi 2. We’re excited to join the Foundation in also announcing that Windows 10 will support Raspberry Pi 2, which will be free for...

What I want to do is send music/videos through my pc to my iphone through wifi. I had done it few times. But now i am not being able to do it for some reasons. So, i install apps like VLC and other music and video player in my iphone and turn on the wifi sharing. Then they will give me a certain...

I took some videos on my iPhone 4S which I wanted to transfer to my Windows 8.1 laptop. I did it in the usual way where I connect it to USB, go into the device on My PC and drag/copy the videos over to another folder. The videos won't play, however. Whenever I try to play them (default through...

Hello all, Just bought an Ipod Touch (5th Gen) from a friend and I want to get all his music from the Ipod on to my PC's hard drive. I plugged it in via USB but it's only showing the pictures. Is there a way to tame this Apple product?

A common solution to various problems is to update the drivers. There are many third party programs that claim to do that. Virtually every one I have evaluated discovers that almost every driver on my computer is out of date. Often, the ones they find as replacements are either older or the...

Have recently upgraded a pc to WIN 8.1 Pro 64 bit from WIN 7 64 bit. Before the upgrade I had a DxTreme 380 media box located in the lounge room and networked via Cat6 cable to the pc in the bedroom. All devices on the network - Samsung tv, DxTreme box + 4 PC's have static IP addresses...

Not sure if it happened to anybody else, but my Nokia N8 bluetooth, which was working fine in Windows 8.1, has now stopped working. It keeps saying that it cannot connect. I have removed and added it on again. It can pair it up OK, but when I try to connect, it doesn't want to do it. It was...

I have three children and they are all getting an android tablet for Christmas this year. We often take long road trips and I usually just charge up our laptop and bring DVD's along for them to watch. With that being said, the tablets they are getting can take a micro sd card. I know you can...

Hello again. thank you for the help last time. I decided to buy the samsung ativ smart pc, because the surfice pro is not available in my country and I don't have a credit card. and the guy at the store said that i can install windows 8 pro on the device, but my question is this: if I...

I want to be able to access the files on my external drive from my Android tablet. I have shared the external drive, and it does show up on my tablet, but when I open it on the tablet only one folder appears (and there are many folders and files on it), and when I open that one folder, only one...

Hi, I assembled a new PC for our Movie and Video Editing Team. The configuration is : Motherboard ASUS P9X79 Pro Model Processor Intel Core i7 3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz RAM Corsair Vengeance 8x4 GB kit , 32GB total RAM Boot Drive Crucial m4 256GB SSD Video Storage WD Caviar...

Hi, I brought a Hitachi USB 3.0 Touro Desk Pro external HDD a few months ago. It's never been smooth sailing with it, and I've finally given up and am asking for help. The drive I have is here: Touro Desk Pro | HGST, a Western Digital company The issue is that, when I connect it up, the...

Hi guys, Recently I found out that something is not like it was before with my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Before, when I was transferring mp4 videos from my laptop to my phone, Windows 7 was asking me if I want to convert them. That was a really good option, because they were running on my phone...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot connect a computer to an IEEE 802.1X-authenticated network through another 802.1x enabled device (such as a VOIP phone) after you resume this computer from hibernation or from sleep. This issue occurs in all Windows... More...

Hi everyone. I have a big problem with a MP3 Player which I use it as a storage device. It has only 512 MB and I decided to use it as a stick. A long time ago i had encountered the problem shown in the "TITLE". So when i connect the device in ANY usb port it connects and disconnects every 3...