The company has announced qualified college and university students can obtain Windows 7 for $30 in the US and £30 in the UK. The OS is available to students for pre-order now and will be released for download on October 22 in the US. In the UK pre-orders start September 22, while students in other countries will be able to take up the discount from October 22. Microsoft has lost many students to Apple in recent years....

Microsoft has been updating its core apps for Windows 11 with rounded edge windows. The visual refresh applies to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, according to Microsoft. It’s a preview feature for now and can be turned off or on using the Coming Soon feature in the respective apps. Microsoft’s design experts hope the redesign will make collaboration less painful. SEE: Windows 11: Here’s how to get Microsoft’s free operating system update “When it comes to the Microsoft legacy, Windows and Office have been twin heads....

Microsoft has recently kicked off a new campaign that offers iPad users a $200 Microsoft Store gift card to trade-in their Apple tablet. While the gift card is applicable to any item inside of Microsoft’s stores, the company is positioning the offer as push for sales of the Surface tablet. The deal ends on October 27, 2013. This campaign is just one aspect of Microsoft’s attempts at trumping Apple’s iPad. Over the past several months, Microsoft has been running TV ads that position Windows 8 for tablets the Microsoft Surface against the iPad....

Windows 10 20H1 Preview Build 18945 New Cortana experience: The company is changing things up with Cortana on Windows 10 20H1 in Beta form. It features a new chat-based UI that allows you to type or speak your queries naturally. It will also support the following: Cortana now supports both light and dark themes in Windows.We have created a new, less intrusive screen for “Hey Cortana” queries so you can stay in the flow while you work....

Windows 10 20H1 Insider Build 18985 This latest build includes an improved and streamlined Bluetooth pairing experience for supported devices. If a device is nearby you’ll get a notification to start pairing. This is instead of going through all the screens in Bluetooth Settings. Microsoft is improving the optional update experience, too. Head to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > View optional updates where you will see updates for drivers, non-security quality updates, and drivers....

Adobe Flash Player Update KB4010250 This Flash Player vulnerability affects all operating systems and Adobe released updates to resolve the issues last week. Supported browsers like Chrome and Firefox have already been patched using their own auto-updating mechanisms. The problem is that Microsoft Edge was still vulnerable because of the delay as it relies on Microsoft’s regular Patch Tuesday to get updated. Luckily, the company released MS17-005 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player (4010250)....

Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17623 The High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is included with both RS4 and RS5 builds. According to the post, “HEIF is an image container that leverages modern codecs like HEVC to improve quality, compression, and capabilities compared to earlier formats like JPEG, GIF, and PNG. In addition to traditional single images, HEIF supports encoding image sequences, image collections, auxiliary images like alpha or depth maps, live images & video, audio, and HDR for greater contrast....

When it comes to the popular sandbox-type video games, Mojang Studios has done a great job by developing and publishing Minecraft. It was officially published in 2011 and offers a very good gameplay experience for the Windows, macOS, Linux platforms. The game is based on a 3D environment that allows users to build their own world in a customizable or you can say creative way. However, the Minecraft game literally keeps crashing before it starts for most of the PC players....

When it comes to the X-Men, fans know that if you can’t shoot lasers from your eyes like Cyclops, you should be able to swing them like a sword. Now thanks to Marvel’s upcoming “X of Swords” event, it looks like the X-Men’s leader will get to do both. You read that right: Cyclops is getting a lightsaber. During the X-Men panel at C2E2, a first look was revealed of the upcoming fifteen-part crossover event known as the X of Swords (pronounced Ten of Swords)....

With It: Chapter 2 now in theaters, it’s the perfect time to look at the personality types of the beloved Losers’ Club. Although many people will classify Stephen King’s horror story as the unsettling tale of a killer clown on the loose, the real focus of It is The Losers’ Club and their relationships with one another. According to Jessica Chastain (who plays the adult Beverly Marsh), this is more of a coming-of-age story than anything else....

Originally a money changer on the streets of Sinaloa, Teresa Mendoza’s life gets turned on its head after her drug-running boyfriend is killed and she learns that she is the next target. After fleeing to the Texas border, Teresa ends up being coaxed into the employ of Camila Vargas, wife of Don Epifano, the head of the Vargas cartel and presumably the one who ordered the murder of Teresa’s soulmate....

Thor Odinson has been an essential facet of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from the very beginning, appearing in seven films so far, with his eighth outing in the franchise, Thor: Love and Thunder, set to premiere next month, giving fans yet another glimpse in the mind of the god of thunder. Fans have gotten to know Thor pretty well over the years, as the films have truly gotten to the bottom of the Avenger’s psyche in recent installments....

Recently, Xiaomi made the headlines with the recently launched Xiaomi Mi A3. The smartphone has the triple camera setup and also under-display fingerprint scanner for the price of a budget smartphone. However, the latest shakeup from the company is made in the smart TV department. We all know that Xiaomi, not only manufactures smartphones but also have a dedicated consumer electronics market as well. The Xiaomi Mi 4 Pro series of smart TVs will now be getting a firmware update of the latest Android 9 Pie which will be rolled out in September....

Microsoft Buys Nokia Announcement From the Microsoft Press Announcement: Steve Ballmer also sent an email to all Microsoft Employees on the Nokia Deal: “We announced some exciting news today: We have entered into an agreement to purchase Nokia’s Devices & Services business, which includes their smartphone and mobile phone businesses, their award-winning design team, manufacturing and assembly facilities around the world, and teams devoted to operations, sales, marketing and support....

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRV76VbTq-8] Microsoft, like Samsung, has been no stranger to directly going after Apple products in its latest TV commercials and online ads. Today, Microsoft has released yet another Siri-bashing ad comparing it to Windows own Cortana voice assistant feature on the HTC One M8. Earlier this summer during its developer conference, Microsoft released its first ad going after Siri and comparing its functionality to the new Cortana personal assistant feature for Windows mobile devices....

Microsoft’s Windows Phone Summit is happening now in San Francisco with Microsoft Vice President Joe Belfiore giving a demo on eight of the big new features to be included in Windows Phone 8. Some of the notables, as highlighted in the images above, include: a new SIM-based NFC wallet experience that will initially launch on Orange (and it appears to include iOS 6 Passbook-like features for third-party cards, etc.); Nokia Map technology for offline maps and turn-by-turn; and, an updated customizable home screen....

Milo Ventimiglia will play famed daredevil Evel Knievel for an upcoming limited series titled Evel, set to air on USA Network. Ventimiglia, famous for his role as Jack Pearson on This Is Us, has starred in a number of other projects recently. The limited series, will be his latest. Throughout the years, Knievel has been the subject of several films and his death-defying jumps have helped in creating a lasting legacy....

Today, we’re taking a look at some mobile apps designed to allow those who have their vision impaired to use a smartphone just like everyone else, and benefit from all the features that these devices offer. We hope these apps will provide a much needed service for anyone in need. Tools integrated within the mobile OS Most mobile operating systems offer some accessibility tools within the operating system itself for users with disabilities....

In this article, we are going to discuss how to fix the issue where mobile data is regularly disconnecting in Samsung Galaxy S20/S20+ and S20 Ultra. Samsung Galaxy S20 series is the latest premium and flagship smartphone from Samsung. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S20 series i.e., Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra as its latest flagship family at the Galaxy Unpacked 2020 event in San Francisco, California. The Galaxy S20 series ships with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 865 chipset, which features more powerful image processing, a new fifth-generation AI Engine, better power efficiency, basically everything you could ask for in a mobile processor....

According to a new report from French publication Nowhereelse.fe and Chinese forum iColorOS, more sixth-generation iPhone parts have surfaced from China. As you can see above, we now have a look at the alleged glass front, home button, sensors, volume control buttons, and the protection element placed on the back of the phone screen that may appear in the next iPhone. The leak also adds a bit more validity to a report earlier this week that showed a new nano-SIM card and smaller home buttons for the device....