If you’re not sure how to get your data over from your XP machine to Windows 7, I recommend taking Microsoft up on its offer. The program will also work with Windows 8.1, but if this is your main PC running XP, and you haven’t learned the nuances of the Modern Interface, you should definitely go with Windows 7. It will be much easier to grasp and not a jarring experience....
“.NET MAUI provides one platform for building on multiple devices and OSes,” said Beth Massi, Director of Product Marketing for .NET. “It was all about Web and Windows before, but now it’s Web and native.” Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot tool, which provides AI-assisted pair-coding functionality, will be generally available “this summer.” GitHub, powered by OpenAI Codex, is a Visual Studio Code extension.
Meet The World’s Cheapest 3D Smartphones John Paul DeJoria is a well-known multi-millionaire who became the co-founder of the famous hair products line Paul Mitchell and The Patron Spirits Company. Now his interest in the world of smartphones became latent in 2014, of course, the year in which he launched his phone with its music streaming system. A payment of $50 per month in a service owner of a phone “weird” did not seem the best idea, but 5 years later, DeJoria returns to the world with a new bet, this time for the low range and 3D....
The genre of multi-modality, as these neural networks are called, is seeing a flurry of activity in which different data, such as image, text, and speech audio, are passed through the same algorithm to produce a score on different tests such as image recognition, natural language understanding, or speech detection. And these ambidextrous networks are racking up scores on benchmark tests of AI. The latest achievement is what’s called “data2vec,” developed by researchers at the AI division of Meta (parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp)....
A senior Microsoft spokesman dismissed the iPad Pro as nothing more than a companion device, contrasting it with the Microsoft Surface when speaking to TrustedReviews. Laycock also said that “at one point in time, Apple declared that if there’s a stylus, that’s failure” – a reference to a quote by Steve Jobs when referring to early smartphones. Apple, of course, argues that the Apple Pencil as an optional accessory for some tasks is very different to a device which cannot easily be used without a stylus....
An all-new original team of Marvel Super Heroes has been revealed as part of the Thailand Gaming Show, dubbed Marvel’s Warriors of the Sky and consisting of four new, original heroes representing four distinct nations of Southeast Asia. The four heroes–War Tiger, Blue Dragon, Sun Bird, and Shadow Shell–join fictional K-Pop star Luna Snow and Crescent & Io as the latest Marvel original characters created for MARVEL Future Fight. The team’s collective insignias had been previously teased during New York Comic Con, but their full identities, homelands, and backstories have now been released....
That being said, apparently, Microsoft has worked on the hinge and the Surface Pro can now handle the extreme tilt angles in a much better manner. Needless to say, the Surface Pro comes with updated innards including the Intel 7th Gen Kaby Lake processors and the enhanced battery life of 13.5 hours. The battery life seems to be one of the positive effects of employing the Kabylake processors which are touted to score better when it comes to frugality....
The new Surface Book 2 comes with a Nvidia GeForce GPU update and a battery of increased capacity. The Surface Book 2 is rated to offer 17 hours of battery life with the 15-inch variant and the processing is taken care by choice of 8th Gen Intel dual and quad-core processors. — Microsoft Surface (@surface) October 17, 2017 The Surface Book 2 looks pretty much identical to its predecessor but Microsoft claims that they have improvised a great deal on the backlit keyboard and the singular flexible hinge....
. The Verge has what it says are previews of Microsoft Office for the two platforms that own 90 percent of the smartphone and tablet markets. The report notes “Very basic editing” will be enabled on the apps, but it doesn’t sound anywhere near the functionality of iWork apps or even Google’s Docs in their current forms. Folks should expect iOS apps in late February and Android versions a month or so later, and you’ll need to pay for an Office 365 plan....
Features No Longer Available or Under Active Development in Windows 10 1709 With each feature update, Microsoft is reviewing features it thinks are no longer needed or have been superseded by modern alternatives. In version 1703, features removed or deprecated were mostly under the hood and were more likely to affect enterprise customers than end users. The trend continues with version 1709, but there are more user facing features and technologies that are on the chopping block....
The server farms, anticipated that would open in late 2016, will be worked by a backup of German information transfers supplier Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems, in light of a “trustee” framework, Microsoft said as referred to by The Financial Times. in a move that expects to avoid client worries about access to their information by U.S. observation. The declaration is the most recent move in a progressing fight between US tech organizations and the American government over access to remote held information....
Chrome has been known to collect tons of data on you — even when it’s not supposed to. For more privacy, others choose Mozilla Firefox or options like DuckDuckGo. One of the less popular alternatives is Microsoft Edge. This browser is used less frequently than Chrome, but it offers quite a few features that make it stand out. In fact, a new Edge feature was just rolled out — and it may make you ditch your Chrome habit for good....
If you work in an office doing menial number crunching on huge amounts of data, the biggest secret to success is becoming adept at Excel and not telling anyone. It’s what I do. Someone comes to my desk and says: “Hey, sorry to do this to you, but could you go through 2,000 rows of poorly formatted data and tell me which ones have been requisitioned but not shipped? I know it’s short notice, but could you have it done by Friday?...
The entire rollout this time has been a mess, but everything should be fixed at this point. The company is slowly rolling out Build 17763.107 to the rest of the public starting today. However, Microsoft is urging people to wait for the update to become available naturally via Windows Update automatically and not rush to manually install it. In a blog post today, Microsoft exec John Cable writes: And to be honest, while there are some interesting new features in 1809, there isn’t anything that is “vital” to your computing needs....
Want to flash the Stock ROM file on Meitu T9? Then you are in the right place. On this page, we will share the official Meitu T9 flash files with their firmware installation guide. To install the firmware flash file, we need a software to flash tool which can be helpful to flash the stock ROM on your device. The method is simple and easy. We have also added video and step by step tutorial to make things easier to flash the official flash file....
Meridio is now offering 50% off all of its Italian leather Watch bands and even deeper deals on a selection of its other accessories. Described as “where the strong character of Italian tradition meets cutting-edge technology,” Meridio bands are handmade in Italy by an ancient tannery in the Marche and span across a wide range of textured leather treatments, moody colorways, and more. Head below for a closer look at some of Meridio’s most interesting options and deep 50% price drops....
Actor Michael B. Jordan will produce a new monster movie from Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the director of Kong: Skull Island. Recently, Jordan has been busy debunking Superman rumors. In 2013, Vogt-Roberts released his debut feature The Kings of Summer, an indie coming-of-age drama. By 2017, Vogt-Roberts made a gigantic career leap with his second film Kong: Skull Island, a monster reboot starring Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson. Produced for $185 million, Kong: Skull Island made over $566 million at the box office, thus making Vogt-Roberts a viable candidate to direct another creature feature blockbuster....
One of these announcements is in the field of AI, where, using Microsoft AI, the company has integrated a new feature in Outlook (for iOS), called ‘Play My Emails’. Essentially, the feature utilizes Cortana (Microsoft’s assistant) to offer users with what’s new in their inbox by playing it out loud. The idea behind the feature stems from the fact that a lot of users spend a huge chunk of their time looking at emails, messages, social media, etc....
Again, I asked Microsoft if they’d say this publicly. No word back so far. Update (August 1): Microsoft updated its blog post on the Release Preview test build of Windows 10 22H2 with the following information: “This build is focused on validating the servicing technology. Windows 10, version 22H2 has a scoped set of features and Microsoft will share more details on this update later this year.” Microsoft officials have not said when to expect Windows 10 22H2 (or Windows 11 22H2, for that matter) to start rolling out to the mainstream....
Although we have not had many demonstrations in this area recently, with the last cumulative update of Windows 10, an application was installed on certain devices, in a non-consented or authorized way, which aroused displeased user opinions. The application is called “Photo Add-Ons” and has been installed on some devices, automatically and without user authorization, along with the last cumulative update of Windows 10, which is released on October 10....
