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Microsoft has been in the news business for more than 23 years. When we launched MSN in 1995, the news industry was just beginning to provide content online. The period that followed was one of dramatic change and reinvention, forcing news organizations to re-think their programming and business...

Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum but, here goes ... Does Microsoft have an area or, a page to get more Screensavers than the five standard ones that come with the OS? If it makes a difference, I am using Win10 Pro.

Windows 10 is all about letting you express yourself and create. Today, we’re going to show you some of the ways you can personalize your PC– whether it’s Link Removed, flowers or skylines, turning your taskbar pink, or enabling Windows Spotlight so beautiful photography will show up...

Dell keeps my computer running, but always has trouble reinstalling Lock Screen Pictures when they disappear from my computer

I wanted to set up another account in my Windows 7 PC for my daughter so she could have her own desktop , bookmarks and everything. I somehow ended up with all my stuff going under her user name. All my settings are now associated with her and I am on a new account! I don't know how to go...

Link Removed The Link Removed is a 3D creation app on Windows 10 that makes it easy to create anything in 3D, whether you draw from scratch or pull from our online 3D community, Remix 3D. Since the release of Paint 3D as part of the Windows 10 Creators Update earlier this year, we’ve been...

win 10 no changes done to pc all of a sudden tm pictures screen savor will not start it has been working ok till now there has been no changes to my ps. I go to settings peroneal settings themes and see the px in the prevue and the time to start is 8 min but it wont start.

Hello! I’m Dave Alles, Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Maps team. Our team delivers the Windows Maps app and the underlying map platform available to developers on all Windows 10 devices. We continuously work to release app updates with new functionality and improve the map control...

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.” – Sir Francis Bacon In the last two posts in this series, we covered the Speech APIs and the Language Understanding APIs. In the current post, we’ll go over the Knowledge APIs. There is a natural progression to this since from speech, we derive meaning, and with...

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Generic (self built) PC I tend to reinstall Windows twice yearly for various reasons & always run into this issue so figured it time to see if there's a simpler solution than the one I'm using. Basically I love the slideshow option & have 3 or 4 folders with up to...

Using Personalization to set desktop backgrounds always defaults to CENTER for positioning. I want to use the FIT positioning but every time the background changes (mine does daily) or when some apps run, the system resets the background to Center which fails to fill the screen with the images...

When I get on our computer with Win 10 before I touch the keyboard there is now a nice photo there usually of some famous natural attraction . What is this ? I don't recall anything like it before . I tried to find out in windows program lists in "all programs" but no success . can I shut it...

Today’s Windows 10 tip is all enabling beautiful photography to show up automatically on your lock screen with Windows Spotlight images. Windows Spotlight updates daily with images that highlight beautiful scenery from around the globe. Images are also selected to depict a spirit of action...

Caesars Entertainment Corporation, a leader in the hospitality industry and one of the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment providers, is always looking for new ways to enhance the guest experience. Today’s customers have high expectations when it comes to personalized services and...

I have been having this issue for a couple weeks and it's really frustrating. I have an Acer 591G laptop that came with Windows 10 already installed, i.e. I didn't upgrade from a previous version. I can tell you that this issue only started happening a couple weeks ago, after I bought and...

At Build 2016, we demoed a Magic Mirror project powered by a Hosted Web App on Windows 10 IoT Core. This project enhances the basic concept of a “smart” magic mirror concept by personalizing the experience with relevant information and facial recognition powered by Microsoft’s Cognitive Services...

Earlier this year, NPR released a Windows 8 version of Link Removed, and recently, a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version. They were eager to share their challenges and developer experiences in bringing the app to UWP. Link Removed provides talk radio personalized for each listener. NPR’s...

Today we are excited to share that Link Removed! You can download it for free from the Windows Store to your Windows 10 PCs and Tablets. Link Removed Now Playing screen in the TuneIn Radio app for Windows 10 TuneIn Radio’s app lets you enjoy more than 100,000 stations worldwide – featuring...

I need to restrict the action to not admin users in the tablet model: venue 10 pro. I updated win 8.1 to win 10 pro. I install the Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 10 downloaded from the link below. Link Removed Most of restrictions I was able to activate but: windows settings...

Hi, I've read other threads about this, and seen some video on Youtube on how to address this problem. But nothing has worked for me. So to summarise, often when I start my computer up (but not every time) the icons on Windows 10 have re arranged themselves. My first port of call was obviously...