For example, ads that are wider, according to Google, had shown that they can perform better than their taller counterparts, because they are easy to read while you have more text without the need to look back to the left and start a new line after a few words, additionally wider ads can display more ads per units. Something that you should try is to test, test, and test the placements of your Google Adsense ads, and after you relocate your ads leave them for about a month and try again a different location and with other ad units if necessary to see if you see any difference, and you will notice that when you find the right spot your revenue will increase substantially....

The next step for the company is to get these apps just right, and to do that, Microsoft is creating a beta testing program, where software enthusiasts can subscribe to download and test the pre-release version of Office for Android. This new version is expected to follow the same touch-friendly design found in the version of Office for iPad. No surprise here either, the suite of applications will release before the next version of Office (Gemini), which is scheduled to arrive some time in 2015....

As you know by now, Google is trying to push one more time and get into the social world, this time, with the new Google+, that most people seems to love and is getting momentum every day. But as there are many people who love the service, there are other users that have tried it and don’t want to continue using Google+ anymore or they just don’t feel comfortable with the service....

The Office sale offer is available in the United States and it’ll continue to be available until June 6th. The promotion is currently reducing the price for a one-year Office 365 Home subscription from $99.99 to $89.99. With this package you can install a wide range of Office apps on up to 5 PCs or Macs, 5 tablets and 5 phones. The bundle includes: Word Excel PowerPoint OneNote Outlook Access Publisher 60 minutes of Skype calls 1TB of OneDrive storage per user, for up to five users...

When your phone is in the “inconspicuous mode”, there will be no sounds, the screen won’t glow as much, and notifications will disappear from the home screen. However, according to Microsoft, users will be able to configure the new “theater mode” to your liking. Perhaps you’ll be able to configure text messages to show up in the home screen or you may only want to dim the screen more than usual....

Ignite 2019 announcements If you couldn’t attend, or you didn’t have time to watch the keynote, here you can check out the most important announcements for Ignite 2019. OneNote As part of Office announcements, during the conference, the company revealed that it’s backtracking the decision to discontinue the desktop version of OneNote. This means that OneNote 2016 will continue to have mainstream support until October 2025, and starting in March 2020, the Office installer will install the 2016 version of OneNote by default....

As reported by Ars Technica, the software giant has two stages for the support lifecycle of its products: Mainstream: The product gets all sorts of updates, security, stability, fixes, and seldom features. Extended: The product only gets security updates and business have to pay for bug fixes. This means that Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003 are in the Extended lifecycle until the end of 2014. Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 on the other hand has just joined the Extended stage and their limited support are set to be terminated in early 2017....

The discount would be offered only for the OS installed on a touchscreen PC, which will help boost the sales of small devices, such as laptop computers and tablets that lately had been slow. This would not be all as is being said by The Wall Street Journal that Microsoft will also add a free copy of Office 2013 to tablets sold with screens less than 10.8 inches. The new Windows 8 license cost that OEMs will be paying with the discount goes around from $20 to $30, and by June it will be reflected on the prices for the final consumers that consequently will be able to buy the devices at a very low price....

This means that you’ll no longer need to use the web browser to sign in to your Office account, download, and install the apps. Now you’ll simply get them with a single click, and moving forward, apps will be updated through the Windows Store. And Microsoft isn’t building new versions of its apps, the company is simply using its own Centennial Desktop Bridge tool to convert the existing apps to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps....

The updates rated as Critical deal with vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (KB3049563), Windows, .NET Framework, Office, Lync, Silverlight, and Windows Journal (KB3057110 and KB3046002) that could allow remote execution, if the user access a specially crafted webpage or document using these products. The updates rated as Important address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Server Software, .NET Framework, Silverlight, and Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege (KB3057191, KB3055642, KB 3058985, KB3057134), feature bypass (KB3050514, KB3050514, KB3057263), remote denial of service (KB3051768), and KB3061518 resolves “the vulnerability could allow information disclosure when Secure Channel (Schannel) allows the use of a weak Diffie-Hellman ephemeral (DFE) key length of 512 bits in an encrypted TLS session....

Moving forward only the latest version of the operating system will support new hardware. However, the company also announced that Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 will still support the latest processors, but only on a select number of devices until July 17, 2018. Today, the company updated its support page announcing the list of over 100 computer models running previous versions of Windows from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and NEC that are compatible with the latest Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake processors....

Although, Microsoft has yet to confirm the features coming to Spartan, the new report says that the new browser will include Cortana. Microsoft is working on bringing its digital assistant to help users on tasks such as hotel booking, flights, package tracking, and other functionality within the address bar. Adding Cortana to Spartan browser is planned to replace all the Bing implementations we see today in Internet Explorer. Spartan will include ink support to let Windows 10 users to add notes to web pages using a digitizer pen and send the notes embedded on a copy of the web page to other people using OneDrive....

The problem The overhaul is happening because, since the original release, the app has not gained much popularity among users and developers. Currently, the Microsoft Store has many issues, including a design that’s hard to navigate, apps are difficult to find, it’s slow, and the overall experience is not good. Also, it does not provide a good experience for developers since the Store only accepts traditional desktop apps (Win32) in MSIX packages (a modern format to deliver Windows apps) that forces the company’s own update mechanism and imposes only one system for monetization....

To-Do is a modern, intuitive, and straightforward app that allows you to create, organize, and keep track of all your tasks. It doesn’t matter the type of task, you can use To-Do to create a list of anything, grocery shopping list, home projects, work related tasks, etc. If you’ve ever used Wunderlist, Microsoft To-Do should look familiar as the same team designed the new app. The app even includes a handy tool to import your tasks from Wunderlist, which eventually will be discontinued in favor of To-Do....

According to a new report from Neowin, Microsoft has finally updated the installation UI to a more simple and modern design. Today, we don’t have an image of the new change, but we do have a mockup of how the interface currently looks like, which the report assures is accurate. As you can see, the new installation UI has a monochrome color scheme. At the top, the screen reads the name of the operating system you’re installing, e....

This workspace also features a great Xbox 360 gaming corner with a big flat screen TV mounted on the wall, and an interesting white cabinet that also serves as a table to showcase the Xbox 360 game console and controllers. The entire room has a minimalist style of white, black, and green colors, wooden floor, very modern, and abundant light, perfect to get work done on those days where the 9-5 schedule just isn’t enough....

After many years Microsoft decided that in Windows 7 some of the native applications, like Wordpad and Paint, needed a face lift. Then the software maker revamped the user interface (UI) for those Windows applications to the Ribbon UI that you now are used to see in Microsoft Office, but what about the good old Notepad? This text editor still looks as it did 15 years, so if you want Notepad to match the other Windows applications with the Ribbon style UI, you should try Notepad 7....

It also represents the first color that the institute of colors has created, and to celebrate the new shade, Microsoft has also created a theme for Windows 11 that includes four wallpapers to decorate your desktop. The images feature the new Windows bloom, but it’s been reimagined using the Pantone Color of the Year 2022, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri, a dynamic blue hue that blends the faithfulness and constancy of blue with the energy and excitement of red....

Starting with the company’s tablet, the new update delivers a couple of System Firmware (UEFI) improvements including: Improvements to audio playback when in Connected Standby Additional capabilities for handling firmware updates during low battery situations. This Tuesday update also brings a total of 7 updates: 5 of them labeled as “Important” and 2 labeled “Critical” that were released to address 12 issues in different Microsoft products including in Windows 8/RT....

The January 2019 firmware update is a minor update with system stability improvements, better support for the Surface Pen, and fixes issues with version 1803. Surface Laptop 2 Here are all the new fixes and improvements in this new Surface Laptop 2 update: Surface Pen Firmware Update – System devices – 3.0.10.1: Ensures reliability of Pen top button click on Surface Pen with no clip-on Windows 10 October 10 2018 Update, version 1809....