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Microsoft Working to Sunset Windows Control Panel Microsoft is moving ahead with plans to sunset the Windows Control Panel by moving its functions over to the Settings app, just as the company announced on July 1. Build 20161, which also debuts an updated Start Menu, moves the System applet to …

Microsoft Is Closing Its Retail Stores Permanently Due to COVID-19 Microsoft has announced it will close all of its physical store locations. Officially, this is due to COVID-19. The memo announcing the change is long on PR-speak, short on actual information. We are told, for example, that “As we look …

Microsoft launches a free Search and Social campaign management platform for SMBs Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center. Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center is moving past pilot stage, the company announced Wednesday. The platform is designed to help small and medium-sized businesses manage digital campaigns across multiple networks from one interface. Digital Marketing …

Here’s how to use the new Microsoft Ads Audience Network Planner   In March, I wrote a post about setting up a Microsoft Audience Ads campaign. I want to take this post a step further. You may already know who your target audience is if you are currently running Audience …

At Microsoft’s Build 2017 event today, the company introduced a new feature for the company’s cloud storage service OneDrive that will allow you to access your files without using up device storage. Called “Files On-Demand,” the feature will roll out along with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and will give …

Microsoft used to be king of the classroom, but Google has increasingly muscled in on its turf. Google announced Chrome OS nearly eight years ago, and the first few waves of devices were of little interest to anyone. Then, Chrome OS became more powerful and easier to manage, and schools …

For the past four and a half years, Microsoft’s Surface family has done double-duty as an aspirational product platform and a high-end demonstration of what PCs are truly capable of. At the low-end, devices like the Surface 3 offered a low-cost, highly portable tablet, while high-end products like the Surface Pro …

Sony shared good news last week as part of its quarterly report. The company has shipped a full 60 million PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro ($399 at Amazon) consoles. The company also sold 2.9 million devices in the past three months, up from 2.3 million devices shipped in the same …

Microsoft acquired the popular mobile to do list application Wunderlist back in 2015, and now it’s preparing users for its eventual demise with the release of its new application “To-Do,” announced today. The new app was built by the team behind Wunderlist, and will bring in the favorite elements of …

Microsoft’s biannual transparency report was just released and, like many other major tech companies that have been putting out their reports recently, the company has revealed its first National Security Letter. The FBI uses NSLs to secretly obtain from tech companies investigative information about their customers. The letters do not …