The Windows Insider Program is thrilled to send ten women to the Grace Hopper Celebration, the largest gathering of women technologists in the world. Ten extraordinary women were named winners of our Women in Computing Award and will also travel to Microsoft’s headquarters for mentoring. We asked them to share their goals and a few words of wisdom for women….
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Elena Degtyareva is a Skype Master Teacher from Verkhoturye, Russia, a small town with many young students eager to learn about the world. Elena has pioneered the use of Skype in her education community, taking students on virtual trips to distant, exciting places. A teacher of English, Elena saw that her students wanted more opportunities to use their language skills….
How can today’s tech work to better support police officers in the field and improve public safety? That question led Eric Wood, Technology Manager for the Chula Vista Police Department, to play a pivotal role in enabling the entire state of California’s police departments to take the leap to the cloud. Three years ago, Eric was a Microsoft employee developing….
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Thanks to a Windows Insider, 10 grain elevators across rural Illinois are doing even more than storing bushels of grain. Rising 200 feet into the sky, the elevators will be helping a grain coop link its satellite offices with Internet connectivity. (How? With fixed directional wireless technology.) In rural areas across the U.S., insufficient internet connectivity means that businesses can….
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Hamilton Cline has spent years drawing his fellow Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) passengers on his morning commute. Hamilton, a computer programming teacher at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, has been drawing from a very young age. He started off copying drawings in comic books as a kid, and by the time he was 16, he was working….
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We’re excited to announce that Dark Theme support for File Explorer is ready for the next major release of Windows. With Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17733, Windows Insiders will be able to see the latest UI design for Dark Theme in File Explorer by going to Settings > Personalization > Colors and select the “Dark” option under the “Choose….
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Greetings from Adam Wilson, Lilian Wang and the rest of the Windows Search team. Anyone hanging around a Windows forum for too long eventually sees the same thing. Something is going wrong on a Windows PC and the accepted recommendation to fix it is by disabling the Windows Search service, also called the indexer or search indexer. For us on….
When Basilio Kalpakian spots an old PC on the side of the road, he knows he’s struck gold. A self-described tinkerer, Basilio is an eye surgeon by day and a computer surgeon by night. His hobby and passion is bringing old PCs back to life and loading them up with Windows 10. Each discarded unit is an opportunity to battle….
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How can Windows empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more? Our ongoing mission is behind a feature that Windows Insiders voted as one of their top 10 favorites: Eye Control. While Eye Control was first released in-box during the Fall Creators Update, it’s seen some great improvements with the April 2018 Update. We sat down….
Switching between multiple apps during the day? Wishing you could easily access that cool website you saw earlier last week on your phone–but on your PC? You can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that with Timeline, your “stuff” will be easily accessible by chronological view. Just press the Task View button. Before the release of the Windows April 2018….
