How to control Windows 11 with your voice
With voice access in Windows 11, you can navigate the screen, issue commands, and dictate text by talking. Here's what you need to know.
With voice access in Windows 11, you can navigate the screen, issue commands, and dictate text by talking. Here's what you need to know.
One of the most persistent questions I hear about Windows 10 involves what happens when the free upgrade offer ends. Is Microsoft going to start charging subscription fees? After a close look at the company's financials, I'm convinced the answer is an emphatic no.
One of the most frequent questions I get these days comes from people who've been running the Windows 7 beta and Release Candidate and are planning to upgrade to the final version when it's available on October 22. "Which edition of Windows 7 do I need?" Most of the feature charts I've seen are dry and dense and overcomplicated. Here's my super-simple version, which also includes OS X.
Over the course of its Windows 7 development effort, Microsoft has been incredibly controlled about releasing details, pursuing an agonizingly deliberate disclosure plan. The release schedule is now public, but Microsoft has politely but persistently refused every one of my requests for a breakdown of the features in each edition. So I did the work myself. I installed copies of each Windows 7 edition from the Windows 7 Release Candidate and tallied up which features were in each edition. Here's what I found out.
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I blogged last week about Windows Defender and complained about PCMag.com's review. I said I'd test Defender against some real spyware, not just 6 commercial keyloggers. The next day I started to install Windows Defender on one of my virtual machines. It was a no go because... my VM is running Windows XP with no service packs and Windows Defender requires Service Pack 2.