Windows 10 installations in a lot of places are showing up with an error message – ‘Something happened’. While it is quite clear that something indeed happened, it doesn’t tell you what happened. Moreover, making things worse, the second line of the message telling you what happened also says, ‘something happened’. We have so far been lucky enough with our …

Two days after launching Windows 10, Microsoft has stated via Windows Blog that it now has more than 14 million devices running the new operating system. The blog post by the Corporate VP of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices group, Yusuf Mehdi, also states that Microsoft still has “many more upgrades to go before we catch up to each of you …

Terry Myerson is going to read this story. He reads everything that’s written about Windows, the crown jewel of the vast empire of software and gadgets that he now oversees as part of a newly expanded role at Microsoft. In fact, Myerson is hungry for feedback on Windows 10, his team’s years-in-the-making operating system that launches on Wednesday. But Myerson …

Like previous Windows versions before it, Microsoft has committed to a ten-year support lifecycle for Windows 10. The company confirmed the news just days before the OS is scheduled to arrive on July 29. According to the Windows Lifecycle Fact Sheet, the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 will come on October 14, 2020. Extended support, meanwhile, will come …

Last week, a Chinese tech blog dedicated to Windows Phone that has often broken credible leaks before, claimed that Microsoft will skip a flagship Lumia generation, and go from the current Lumia 930numbering straight to Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL. “If nobody wants to make Windows phones, we will make them ourselves,” said Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, and they are indeed …

Back in May, Microsoft confirmed that it would launch a Windows 10 Mobile flagship smartphonesometime later this year. However, we might see more than just one new flagship from Microsoft, as rumors have it that the company is working on a Lumia 940, a Lumia 940 XL, and even a Lumia 1030 (though the 1030 might have been cancelled). The …

  A fresh report from Digitimes, quoting the usual unnamed industry insider sources, says that Microsoft has notified its upstream supply chain to start shipping components for the upcoming Surface Pro 4 in September. The report then moves on to note that the tablet should hit the market in October. The same report also claims that Microsoft Surface Pro 3 shipment …

Microsoft, besides announcing Cortana for Android and Xbox One, on Tuesday also introduced a new build (10136) for its Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview. The build version this time brings new Cortana features for the handsets and more. Microsoft has this time added the dark theme colours to Cortana’s interface for Windows 10 Mobile, bringing it more in line with …