If you just unboxed a Surface Pro and want a practical, step‑by‑step plan to get started — from setup and gestures to the Type Cover, Surface Pen, screenshots, and sensible troubleshooting — this guide walks you through everything a beginner needs to know to use a Surface Pro confidently and...
Microsoft’s Snipping Tool appears poised to flip the traditional screenshot workflow by letting you draw and highlight on the live screen before you capture it — a change that promises faster annotation, tighter AI integrations, and a more pen‑friendly experience across Windows devices...
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Microsoft’s Snipping Tool is being readied to let you draw directly on the live screen before you capture it — a change that would flip the traditional screenshot workflow and bring the app closer to dedicated third‑party capture utilities and inking-first workflows already familiar to tablet...
Microsoft 365 has quietly moved one of OneNote’s most praised inking features — the Fountain pen and Brush pen — into the core productivity apps, bringing a richer, more natural inking experience to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows devices.
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Microsoft introduced the Fountain pen...
A flurry of recently unearthed images and hardware prototypes has pulled back the curtain on one of Microsoft’s most ambitious—and ultimately canceled—hardware dreams: the Windows-powered Surface Duo, codenamed Andromeda. Originally designed as a spiritual successor to the ill-fated Windows...
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Microsoft Windows 11 is once again demonstrating that even the classics can be reinvented. In a refreshing update for its built-in apps, Microsoft is revamping Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad—core applications that every Windows user has come to rely on. With these updates currently available...
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Microsoft has recently released Windows 11 Build 26100.4188 (KB5058499) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel, marking a significant update in the Windows 11, version 24H2 (Build 26100) series. This build introduces a suite of new features and improvements aimed at enhancing user...
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In a world obsessed with major overhauls and shiny new features, it’s the incremental steps—the subtle but strategic tweaks—that often reveal a company’s real direction. Microsoft’s rollout of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5570 to the Dev Channel stands as a definitive example. This...
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Here's a detailed breakdown of the official release notes for Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5570 (Dev Channel), based on the Windows Insider Blog for this build:
New Features Gradually Being Rolled Out (Toggle On*)
1. Profanity Filter Setting in Voice Typing
There is now a new setting...
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Simply put, Windows 11 and Surface help you achieve more. See how our latest Surface devices bring out the best of Windows 11.
(1) Mode detection
With Windows 11, Surface automatically transitions to different modes when you change how you hold or use your device. Write in laptop mode, present...
Windows has always been a platform for the world’s innovation – a place for anyone to create, connect, learn and achieve. As Windows reshaped computing experiences, new hardware products have helped more and more people interact with them. From the first mouse that unlocked point and click...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students and educators have had to navigate a wide range of learning scenarios, from remote, to hybrid, and in some parts of the world, a return to face-to-face learning. In many of these cases, schools and districts had to adopt new technologies to maintain...
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The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is available now, and we’re also releasing new innovations in Office 365, To-Do and Outlook.com. These updates were designed to help you make the most of your time across work, home and everywhere in between.
Offering tools for your whole life has never been...
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Today we shared our vision for a new era of personal productivity; unveiled Surface Pro 6, Surface Laptop 2, Surface Studio 2 and Surface Headphones, and announced availability of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update and new Office 365 experiences.
As we work to deliver on our company mission of...
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