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How to make your own font with Microsoft Font Maker

The Microsoft Font Maker app allows you to create your own personalized font, right from your own handwriting. We'll show you how.

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Windows 10: A guide to the updates

Here's what you need to know about each update to Windows 10 as they roll out from Microsoft. Now updated for KB4346783 (OS Build 17134.254), released Aug. 30, 2018.

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Windows 10 October 2018 Update: Key enterprise features

Here are 10 changes in the next major update to Windows 10, version 1809, that business users and IT admins should know about.

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Microsoft tags Windows 10 1809 with the catchy name 'October 2018 Update'

Microsoft announced the official name for the next major Windows 10 release at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin.

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The next Windows 10 has a name and a date: the October 2018 Update, due this fall

We now know when the next Windows 10 update is coming, and if you forget, it's right there in the name. Microsoft’s fall update to Windows 10 will be known as the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.

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10 classic but essential (and free!) utilities for Windows 10

You can get more from Win10 by adding these useful tools.

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The best free software for your PC

These are the best free programs that any PC needs: solid security tools, productivity software, and more.

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Smaller updates remove 'last significant barrier' to commercial Windows 10 adoption, argues expert

Frequent, large updates may have stopped companies with limited bandwidth from upgrading to Windows 10.

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Windows on Chromebooks? Stay tuned.

Could you soon see Windows running on a Chromebook? Clues are pointing that way. But why would Google do it? Here’s my take.

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MicroWorld eScan Total Security Suite review: A suite not big on change

MicroWorld's eScan Total Security Suite offers enough features for most people, but the interface needs some work.

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How Windows 10's new smaller monthly updates work

A "back-then-forward" model will govern patches starting with Windows 10 version 1809.

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Windows 95 is now downloadable as a nostalgic 'app'

Windows 95 has been rewritten as a free, Electron app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Try it for yourself!

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Microsoft to slash size of Windows 10's monthly updates

The smaller updates will make their debut with the release of Windows 10 version 1809, due in September.

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Windows 10 update (and retirement) calendar: Mark these dates

Microsoft is releasing new versions of Windows 10 on a set schedule – and just as regularly retiring older versions from support. Here are all the dates you need to know about through Windows 7's retirement in 2020.

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How to protect your privacy in Windows 10

Worried about privacy issues in Windows 10? Here's what you can do.

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Chrome 68 takes notifications native in Windows 10

The browser, launched July 24, uses the OS's own notification center to post messages; users must be running Windows 10 1607 or later.

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Microsoft may soon add multi-session remote access to Windows 10 Enterprise

Microsoft may be close to offering multi-session remote desktop access to Windows 10 Enterprise, allowing for as many as 10 simultaneous connections.

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IT admins warn Microsoft to slow Windows 10 upgrade pace

More than three-quarters of the admins surveyed want Microsoft to release feature upgrades just once a year – or even once every other year. One admin decried an upgrade pace that 'never ends.'

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