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The Windows 10 Mail app allows you to turn on and customize notifications per configured email account. read more Continue reading...

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The countdown to our Windows 10 launch continues. Today, we’re talking about multi-doing on Windows 10. Our lives are busier than ever requiring us to juggle more tasks, both big and small. Wouldn’t it be great if our devices could help make accomplishing our tasks simpler? With features like...

Is there anyway to add GMail to the System Tray for quick access and phone calls? I want that to remain open at all times even when Chrome is closed.

This started with 10159, but I normally watch Task Manager so I can see the download speeds. With 10159 and now on 3 machines with 10162, when the download first starts, the download progress stays at 0%. At that same time, there is a download happening at 50 Mbps and lasts for several...

Just the last couple of days I get this box appear on start-up - any idea what it is and how I can get rid of it? Doesn't seem to affect my laptop functioning normally:

Hi everyone, we’re hard at work on the next builds that we’ll send out to you for PC and Mobile. I don’t have an update on timing for that quite yet, but I do have some important changes to tell you about that are coming with the next PC build as we Link Removed. Microsoft Account notifications...

Honest, this is the last Microsoft Band post... (for a bit at least)(unless I find something really really cool anyway... ;) Just for reference, here are the other recent C4F posts; Microsoft Band SDK Release and Band Studio Introduction, Developing for the Microsoft Band Link Round-up...

Microsoft have started pushing Windows 10 registrations to you. Microsoft has started promoting Windows 10 to users of Windows 7 and 8. A notification box now popping up for Windows users all around the world and offering to let them register for a copy of the free new OS. Link Removed...

About a month ago we highlighted the Microsoft Band in a link round-up post, Developing for the Microsoft Band Link Round-up. Since then the Microsoft Band SDK, Link Removed, was fully released... Link Removed Today, we’re announcing the full release of the Microsoft Band SDK. Visit Link...

I have turned off my notifications and still get a reminder that my computer would restart at such and such a time to install updates. It seems they appear every couple of hours. How do I stop that. The computer never restarts unless I do it manually. Either way I keep getting these annoying...

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Hi Here's something that's been bugging me for a while. Every time I boot my computer I get the message, "Your computer needs to be rebooted to install updates", but if I do reboot I just get the same message again. Second, it always give me messages that say "Click Here", to do this or that...

When the Microsoft Band was first released (and sold out and is still not available online...) every dev who got one, wanted an SDK too. It took a little bit, but now, now we finally have the first preview Microsoft Bank SDK! Link Removed The Microsoft Band SDK Preview gives developers access...

Hi. When I first bootup the start button and notification buttons are non responseive. I need to reboot the pc before it will work. Any clues as to whats going on? Also is cortana working for thenuk region yet?

Link RemovedEliot Stein from SmartThings shares with us their app they created for Windows. Listen in and learn how you can turn your home into a smart home with the help of SmartThings and your Windows device. Link Removed SmartThings is the easiest way to turn your home into a smart home...

Hi When My computer boots the Notification Windows opens and it always shows several messages in the saying that you have new applications that can open this kind of file. I have no idea what files it's talking about since my computer is just booting up and only opening the normal software...

Microsoft cloud and mobile technologies deliver a simple, efficient service for getting a taxi ride in crowded Bogota, Colombia. Sometimes great ideas spring from mundane events. For Juan Salcedo, it started with the hassle of trying to get home on a rainy Friday afternoon. It was pouring that...

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce that our first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones is available now for Windows Insiders! The team here has been working hard to get this out to you and we know that you’ve been waiting patiently since we announced that it was coming. This is a...