Get to know all the changes, improvements, and features coming to Xbox One in March 11th system update. Get help from Bing to do your taxes quicker. And finally, Microsoft is experimenting with new ways to encourage customers to use its products. This time the company is offering 100GB of free cloud storage in OneDrive to all those who sign up for Bing Rewards and complete certain Bing activities. All this and more… Welcome to Pureinfotech: Tech Recap edition....

Also this week Microsoft published a new post detailing why Windows Insiders didn’t get a new build on December, talked about the Windows 10 numbers, and promised the January Technical Preview will be worth the wait. Office Sway became available for everyone without the need of an invitation. Gestures Beta app for Lumia Windows Phones released making a lot easier to interact with phone calls without touching the screen. Microsoft published the Xim app to let users share photos temporarily with friends, but also allowing users to show those images to a Chromecast, Apple TV, and Xbox One....

As we get closer to the release of the next major update of Windows 10, this week, we looked in-depth at all the new features and improvements coming in the Fall Creators Update. Apple WWDC 2017 happened this week, and if you missed it, here are the most interesting annulments the company unveiled during the keynote. In addition, this week, Microsoft accidentally leaked some documents revealing that the company is working on a new version of Windows 10 for advanced PCs....

Microsoft pulls again another U-turn and now says that Kinect will not be a device required to be plugged in all the time to use Xbox One, and Microsoft’s Major Nelson released a new video showing in-depth the new Xbox One controller. All this and much more. Welcome to Pureinfotech: Tech Recap edition. Each weekend I will bring you a compilation of articles of the week, including how-to guides, features, tech news, and more....

This week Microsoft announced that is ending Windows Vista and Office 2007 mainstream support. Check the article to learn what this means to you —Microsoft is ending support for Windows Vista today, still a couple more years for XP. For Windows 8, this week you learned that you can already find Easter Eggs inside of the operating system — How to enable Aero Lite transparency in Windows 8 [Trick]. To prevent network problems when sharing content visit this article — Ensure home network interoperability with Windows 8 and previous version of Windows [Tips]....

In tech news Microsoft has already made available the latest Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (RC), so now with this more stable version of IE9 users can download, and start getting a real feeling of what is coming in the next release of IE. WordPress has also come out with a new updates for 3.0.x and 3.1 version that are worth to check out, and much more. Here is what you might have missed:...

Here is what you might have missed: Desktop fun: Spectacular sailing Windows 7 Theme Have you ever wondered how LCD monitors work? [Video] Speechify enables HTML5 speech-to-text for Google Chrome 11 Firefox 4: 11.5 million downloads in less than 48 hours and counting! Google Chrome 11 hits beta with HTML5 speech input and GPU-accelerated 3D CSS [Updated] A look at the new Google Chrome’s Settings interface Firefox 4 released and near 400,000 downloads already!...

Google this week released to mainstream Gmail translation, which is a feature that will automatically translate all emails that are not in your native language. Plus learn an easy way to save Gmail attachments directly to your Google Drive, and finally if you didn’t have a chance to play with Google Drive don’t miss this week review with all you need to know. Here is all of what you might have missed: Microsoft addressed concerns on Windows 8 dropping DVD playback support Windows 8 will not play DVD discs anymore, unless you pay for the Media Center pack Desktop fun: Southwest Sandstone theme for Windows 7 Microsoft ditching the ‘Windows Live’ brand and the ‘Microsoft account’ will consolidating its cloud services Bing has a new uncluttered search result page Gmail translate emails in your language, but do you need it?...

On Wednesday, Twitter announced in its developer forum that in July will be removing the 140 character limit on direct messages on favor of up to 10,000 character long messages. Of course, public Tweets will continue to be 140 characters long — nothing will change here. The micro-blogging company is revealing the news now to allow other applications and services to modified their software to handle the new longer format on DMs....

While the Microsoft’s Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL are great devices, many customers have been disappointed over the plastic materials. On the other hand, the VAIO Phone Biz has a sleek design and silver-finish aluminum body. As the name suggests, the Japanese computer manufacturer is aiming its new Windows 10 Mobile phone to business professionals, rather than regular consumers, and the device not only delivers on designs, but also on some tech specs....

The wallpapers for your desktop computer backgrounds for this new week are once again free for you to download for Windows and anticipate the lower temperatures in a charming way. If the images rotate too quickly on your desktop, after applying the theme, go to Settings > Personalization > Background, and use the Change picture every drop-down menu to adjust the image rotation frequency. You can find more great themes in my Desktop Fun section....

Also, the company introduced a number of new shopping tools for Microsoft Edge, including support for coupons and discounts codes, proactive price comparison when looking at a product page, and quick access to shopping deals. In addition, Microsoft also announced other productivity features, such as notes for PDFs and inking support for screenshots, new enhanced copy experience, background notification support, and support to use the browser on the new Apple M1 chip....

The Media Creation Tool is a standalone application that lets you download the files to create a USB flash drive media or ISO file to perform a clean install. Also, the same tool will enable you to complete an in-place upgrade without creating a separate bootable media. You can download the Media Creation Tool from this Microsoft support website to download the Windows 10 21H2 files to perform a clean installation, an in-place upgrade, or to create an ISO file as soon as it becomes available in November....

Aul describes the next preview as a “GREAT build”, but the bug on the Edge browser is what’s causing the hold up. — Gabriel Aul (@GabeAul) May 20, 2015 However, the Windows Insider community recommended to release the build immediately to the Fast ring of updates anyway. Microsoft seems to have taken the Insiders request into consideration and now the software maker has confirmed that it will roll out the Windows 10 build 10122....

In build 14328, part of the Anniversary Update arriving later this summer, Microsoft is finally delivers an improved version of the Start menu, Action Center and notifications start getting revamp and new features begin to emerge. The taskbar gets new features as well, such as calendar integration and badge notifications, the Lock screen receives major tweaks, and a lot more. Here are all the new features and changes Microsoft is officially announcing in the latest Insider preview of Windows 10....

Windows 10 Insider Preview build 17083, according to Microsoft, brings the fonts experience from Control Panel to the Settings app. Introduces a new Diagnostic Data Viewer app that allows you to review the data the company collects about your device. You’ll find a lot of new improvements on Timeline, Quiet hours, Windows Hello, Settings app, and much more. What’s new on Windows 10 build 17083 Fonts settings Starting with build 17083, Windows 10 brings the Fonts experience found in Control Panel to the Personalization section in the Settings app....

Windows 10 build 17704, according to the software giant brings a number of visual improvements to Microsoft Edge. In addition, this flight introduces new Diagnostic Data Viewer features to improve your privacy experience and typing insights to help you type more efficiently. You can now install fonts per user account, and there’s a new viewing mode that improves visibility of videos in bright environments. Even further, build 17704 also delivers a new version of Skype and Windows Security app with a new “Block suspicious behaviors” feature....

Windows 10 build 17763, according to the company, fixes problems with Microsoft Edge, Bluetooth audio devices, battery usage, PowerShell, and it resolves issue resulting in display scaling factors not being applied correctly when viewing a full screen remote desktop window. Although this build doesn’t ship with a watermark in the bottom-right corner, it’s still not the final version of the October 2018 Update. In addition, Windows 10 build 17758.1004 is rolling out in the Slow ring as cumulative update KB4462120, which includes all the fixes that previously became available with build 17760 in the Fast ring....

Windows 10 build 18272, according to the software giant, introduces changes to set up Windows Hello using the Settings app. The SwitfKey technology expands to more languages. The Indic Phonetic keyboards are not available for computers, and there are some new Narrator improvements. Windows 10 build 18272 Here are all the changes and improvements expected to arrive with version 1903 in April 2019: Start menu In the Start menu, you won’t find big chances, but now you can right-click on a group name or tile folder, and you’ll now have an option to unpin it....