Microsoft may not be planning to launch its own Google Home/Amazon Echo-style smart speaker. But the company does have big plans for letting you interact with smart home devices using the company’s Cortana voice assistant. The company recently started adding features to Windows 10 for computers that allow you to use your voice to turn off a PC, […]
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Lilbits 308: Is Microsoft spying on you (a lot)?
Windows 10 has gotten a lot of attention for bringing back the Start Menu, adding the Edge web browser and Cortana digital assistant to desktop Windows users, and introducing Continuum technology to automatically transition from desktop to tablet mode and back again on 2-in-1 notebook/tablet convertibles. But the operating system has also come under fire […]
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2, MinnowBoard Max
Microsoft’s light-weight version of Windows 10 for low-power, connected devices is now available. Windows 10 IoT Core isn’t designed to be a desktop operating system that runs Office, Photoshop, or Steam. But it could power robots, home automation systems, and other products that may have a display… or that may not. For now, Microsoft has released […]
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Windows 10 hardware requirements for phones, tablets, notebooks and more
Microsoft is outlining the kind of hardware you’ll need to run Windows 10 on all sorts of devices. We already knew that you’d be able to run the desktop version of Windows 10 on pretty much any PC that can handle Windows XP or later. But now we know what kinds of phone and tablet […]
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 preview for Raspberry Pi, Minnowboard Max
Windows 10 is designed to run across a range of devices including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, desktops, and even holographic computers. It’ll also support extremely low-power devices like the Raspberry Pi 2… and now you can download a preview of Windows 10 for those devices. Just don’t expect to use Windows to turn your Raspberry Pi […]