Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Microsoft Lumia 950: It Is Just The Start

We saw some early signs that the company was to be a bit more forward-looking in 2014. The Microsoft Band 2 wristwatch also will be getting this unlocking capability.

Consumers were completely cut off from patches, with no alternatives other than to switch to a newer operating system or continue running an insecure machine. Microsoft hasn't just acknowledged the iPhone's dominance.

Figures from Netmarketshare show 10.9 percent of the desktop OS market is controlled by Windows XP, first released in 2001, making it the third most popular edition of Windows.

Microsoft needs to do the right thing and brush Windows Phone into the trashcan, and reboot its mobile aspirations with a platform that has a chance of standing up to the competition. Windows OS isn't known to offer plenty of apps as the iOS and Android devices offer. Not even the iPhone has that feature today.

The app has learned a few new tricks for Windows 10, though. Upon hitting the spacebar on their PC, their phone receives a notification. Swiping away a notification a notebook dismisses that same notification on an Android phone, for example. The Anniversary update is coming to Windows 10 in this July 2016.

The new features which include Passport authentication, file-level encryption, further enhancements to Continuum and more were all revealed in a new Windows 10 roadmap which has been published by Microsoft this week together with new underdevelopment features. That move, and the subsequent launch of the Surface Book, strongly indicated that Microsoft wanted to capitalize on the strength of the Surface brand and develop a "family" of Surface devices. Arrow redesigns the home screen. And again for the most part they have been. Contacts, notes and reminders are all accessible with a swipe. At least, it hasn't done that yet. Press Y followed by Enter to download the software from the Windows Store and complete the installation.

Enhancements to Microsoft Passport improve its functionality in enterprise environments. Windows 8 security updates have ended, and in January the company also ended support for many older versions of Internet Explorer in a bid to get everyone on board with the latest and greatest. That support includes Gmail and Yahoo. However this feature is only available for the iPads devices. With it, you can lock down devices, granting access only to apps from trusted sources.

What you think about this Picture in Picture concept? The problem is that it's hard to see how Windows Phone can make it until 2017. But, 53% plan to invest in Windows 10 sometime this year. What makes this Apple release important for Microsoft is that they are calling it the ultimate PC replacement. The connections are there.

Turning Windows phone into a laptop substitute, projection device. It's ironic, but true.

Greece tries to clear lucrative port city while migrants remain strandedAn agreement signed between the European Union and Turkey last month to deport people back to Turkey seems to be having an effect. They were rounded up by the Macedonian police and sent back to the border in trucks, freezing cold and dripping wet.


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