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  Microsoft's latest Surface Pro is modern in many ways, but it also lacks the latest standard in ports: USB-C. So what?
  Earlier this month, Microsoft introduced the latest member of the Surface family: the Surface Laptop. We want to know what you think is the new Surface's stand-out feature, or the "ultimate reason" to buy one.
  Microsoft’s Lumia 950 XL remains one of the best Windows 10 Mobile devices available today. And one of the phone’s best features is without question its 20MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics.
  Microsoft's cool "Actionable Messages" feature in its Outlook mail clients lets users respond or react to to-do items or tasks in email messages without leaving Outlook. Today, the company made the feature available to additional Office users.
  Build is one of Microsoft's biggest shows each year. We're hoping the company makes some big announcements, as well. But we want to hear your thoughts.
  How do you open and view messages that are protected with Microsoft’s Office 365 Message Encryption (OME), on your iPhone or iPad? Microsoft’s got an app for that.
  This is Windows Central, so most of us on the team would recommend a Windows PC over a Mac computer just about every time. But the fact is, in some cases, Macs may be a better fit for certain types of users.
  Today, at its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced a handful of updates to the Teams enterprise collaboration developer platform, which will bring new features to Teams in the future.
  Thanks to an impressive array of quality PC hardware options, and some less-than-inspiring product launches and updates from Apple, now is a great time to make the switch from Mac to Windows.
  Microsoft's next major OS release, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, is expected to officially introduce the company's new design language, called the Fluent Design System.
  Microsoft announced a new version of Windows for power users, enterprises and other organizations, called Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, that supports server-grade hardware and is designed to make high-end PCs more responsive and reliable.
  Yesterday, Microsoft announced an official release date for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: October 17, 2017. It's not the most exciting release ever, but we're still anxiously anticipating the update. What say you?
  Exactly five years ago to the day, Microsoft released it first Surface device aimed at consumers, then known only as "Microsoft Surface," but it eventually became known as the "Surface RT." It started a Windows revolution.
  Windows Central's sister site iMore is on the scene in San Jose, Calif., this week for Apple’s 2017 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
  If Microsoft hopes to gain ground and then keep up in the busy and competitive app space, while inspiring talented software developers to create apps for the Windows Store, it needs to maintain a high-performance platform and software marketplace.
  If there's one common complaint among the majority of Windows users, particularly Window Mobile users, it's the "app gap," or Windows's lack of mobile, "touch-friendly" applications compared to other platforms, such as Android, iOS, and macOS.
  Last week, Microsoft quietly announced that it will release a "Microsoft Edition" of Samsung's much-anticipated Galaxy S8 (GS8) Android smartphone.
  Online scammers are always modifying and evolving their ploys, and one of the latest such scams involves spam email that resembles tech support messages from well-known companies and retailers, designed to get victims to click suspect links or call in for fake support, according to Microsoft.
  Samsung today launched the Galaxy S8 (GS8) in four markets, the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and South Korea.
  More than seven months ago, shortly after the launch of Samsung's Galaxy S8 (GS8), we wrote about a version of the phone that Microsoft planned to sell in its brick-and-mortar retail stores, dubbed the "Galaxy S8 Microsoft Edition." Today, Samsung wants you to know that it was never a thing.
  Microsoft makes it relatively easy to add custom mail signatures, with hyperlinked images or company logos, in Outlook 2016 for Windows.
  Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Windows has a feature that lets you easily flag important email messages and add reminders to make sure you remember to reply or respond accordingly. Here's how to apply custom reminders to Outlook messages.
  If you worked in a corporate environment during the past couple of decades, there's a good chance you used a ThinkPad laptop.
  If your Outlook inbox looks like a stack of digital dynamite recently exploded inside of it, you can use Outlook Categories to organize and sort important messages. Here's how to use and master Outlook Categories.
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