Tag: Windows 10

BP opens “UK’s largest electric car charging hub” in Birmingham

BP has opened what it claims to be the largest charging hub in the UK. The new location is at the Birmingham NEC and is called a ‘Gigahub’ with capacity for up to 180 vehicles in total, with 30 being superfast 300kW DC chargers and a further 150 with 7kW AC chargers. This is now the third large location that BP has opened recently, one at Gatwick airport and another […]

Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 downloads later this month

Microsoft has revealed that it will start some initial plans to wind down the support for Windows 10 Home and Pro. Later this month, on 31st January Microsoft will stop all sales of any download copies of Windows 10, with official support planned to be retired in October 2025, just slightly over ten years since the operating system was initially released. 31st January 2023 will be the final fay that […]

Windows 10 now works on Apple’s latest M1 Macs

Since Apple launched its new Mac models with its own Apple Silicon chips inside, running any kind of Windows has been basically impossible, as Boot Camp itself isn’t supported on M1 Macs. For a long time, virtualisation software has been available on macOS, the most famous of which being Parallels and they have come to the rescue to get Windows 10 working on Arm based Macs. Parallels has released an […]

Some future updates to Windows 10 have been seen in a promo video

Last week, Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 is now installed on over one billion devices and as part of the celebration, Panos Panay who is the chief product officer at Microsoft, shared a video on Instagram and as the video shows of sections of the Windows 10 UI, it becomes clear certain elements change to reveal what could be a redesigned interface for Windows 10, or rather a refresh. Video […]

Windows 10 is now installed on over one billion devices, world wide

Windows 10 was introduced nearly five years ago, the five year anniversary will be this July and Microsoft has now achieved what it set out to do originally. Get Windows 10 installed on a lot of devices. Windows 10 is now installed on over one billion devices, world wide. Windows 10 is on everything from games consoles, laptops, tablets to desktop PCs in homes, businesses and schools. Microsoft has also hinted […]

An emergency patch for Windows 10 has been released

Today, Microsoft has had to issue an unexpected and unscheduled patch for Windows 10, in a rare emergency situation. A security bug found in Windows 10 was leaked a few days ago and due to this and the fact that the bug was marked as ‘critical’ – Microsoft has had to issue an emergency software update. The new KB4551762 update is out now and it is highly recommended to update. […]

New Chromium version of Microsoft Edge now runs on ARM PCs

Microsoft has been working on a new version of the Edge browser for a while now, it was launched for standard Windows 10 in early January and the new version is based on Chromium, the same browser engine that powers Google Chrome, hence the name. The Chromium version of Edge actually works on Mac too. The news now is that the new version of Edge now works on the Surface […]

It wasn’t just you, Windows 10 search was down for some of today

It wasn’t just you earlier today, the built in search in Windows 10 was not working for some of the day, due to an outage on some Microsoft services. Microsoft said that earlier there was an issue “with multiple Microsoft 365 services.” with one of them being Bing. It seems odd that the entire search system depends on the functionality of Bing, even for local searches and that if the […]

New Windows 10 update delayed, due to blue screen issue

Last week, Microsoft did have a new major update for Windows 10 ready and waiting to be pushed out, with April 10th as the day marked for the release. However some last minute issues with the release, resulted in an entirely new build to testers instead of a patch being issued out. What was the issue? The main bug was spotted in a release (17133) which wasn’t made available to […]

Microsoft Office 2019 will require Windows 10 to operate

Microsoft will be releasing the next big update to Office later this year and this week, Microsoft has provided some more information on what is required to run it when it is released. Windows 10 only First and foremast, Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10, unless you are using Office 365. Basically if you want to buy Office 2019 outright, then by the sounds of it, it will […]