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I recently got a Dell XPS 15 9500 for work and have come to really enjoy it. I have been a MacBook Pro guy for years but I needed a windows machine and felt that this was the right fit for me. I have read a lot of great reviews on this laptop and I am happy with the purchase let me explain why.   Design   I love the design coming from a MacBook Pro user every day to a Dell XPS 15 I can see how people can make the transition the touchpad is just like the MacBook Pro with the same gestures and  large style of the MacBook Pro. The keyboard is designed as well  to be similar to a MacBook Pro with the short reach allowing you to type faster I love using it. The keyboard sports the power button and fingerprint combo sensor.   Screen   I love the 15 .6 inches 4K display with very minimal bezels I think the screen looks amazing  with clear color and contrast. The touch screen part I am still getting used to I do not really use it that much but I am sure I will get used to it or find a reaso

The news:  Amazon on Tuesday unveiled Alexa Show Mode, which turns select Lenovo Windows 10 PCs into Echo Show -like displays. The feature was first unveiled at CES earlier this year and is activated by saying “Alexa, open Show Mode,” or by clicking on the Show Mode button on the Alexa app. It’s part of Amazon’s push to get its Alexa voice technology everywhere, and an expansion of Alexa for PC . It also further signals the fading consumer relevance of Microsoft’s own voice assistant, Cortana. Amazon in March released an “Alexa for Xbox” app.

Microsoft OneDrive is a popular cloud storage service that boasts deep integration with Windows 10. If you’re a OneDrive user, you probably want to keep tabs on how much storage you’re using. We’ll show you how to check. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

The Microsoft co-founder and his wife say they will continue working together on their charitable foundation, the largest of its kind in the world.

Some of our most painful Microsoft Word memories involve losing hours of work because we forgot to save our documents. You no longer need to worry about that because Word lets you automatically save documents to Microsoft OneDrive. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

If you’re used to the convenient ‘start’ command at the command prompt in Microsoft Windows, you’re likely to be a little disappointed not having the same functionality in Linux. But it need not be! Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›

Microsoft is previewing Azure Web PubSub, an Azure cloud service for building real-time web applications using the WebSocket protocol for two-way communication. Unveiled April 29, Azure Web PubSub enables developers to use WebSockets and a publish-subscribe pattern to build real-time web applications such as live monitoring dashboards, real-time location on maps, and cross-platform live chats. [ Also on InfoWorld: Why Microsoft Azure wins with enterprise customers ] Microsoft said Azure Web PubSub is meant to spare developers from significant infrastructure investment, setup, and maintenance tasks, allowing them to focus on user experiences. Implementing a WebSocket-based real-time experience would otherwise require a developer to set up infrastructure to handle client connections, establish mechanisms for on-demand scaling, and ensure business SLA requirements are met. To read this article in full, please click here

Microsoft Planner is a useful work manager, but out of the box, it’s very plain and impersonal. Give your plans a little more life and color by adding a background from Microsoft’s selection of Designer-chosen images. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Microsoft has big plans for the next major release of its signature Visual Studio IDE . Among the promised improvements, Visual Studio 2022 promises to be 64-bit, faster, more lightweight, and more approachable. Due in a first public preview this summer, Visual Studio 2022 will be built for a range of users spanning from learners to experienced developers building industrial-scale solutions. Visual Studio 2022 will be a 64-bit application, no longer limited to about 4GB of memory in the main devenv.exe process. Moving to 64-bit will reduce component memory usage and optimize Visual Studio’s 32-bit design. To read this article in full, please click here

Microsoft is moving standardization of its object-oriented, type-safe C# language to a public repository of the .NET Foundation, providing a public space for ongoing work on the standard. Everything from language innovation and feature design through implementation and standardization will now take place in the “open,” with conversations public. This will make standardization work easier, Microsoft said. The dotnet/csharpstandard repo on GitHub will be the working space for the ECMA C# standard committee. To read this article in full, please click here

Parallelism is the ability to have parallel execution of tasks on systems that have multiple cores. Support for parallel programming in .NET was introduced in .NET Framework 4. Parallel programming in .NET allows us to use system resources more efficiently and with better programmatic control. This article talks about how we can work with parallelism in .NET Core applications. To work with the code examples provided in this article, you should have Visual Studio 2019 installed in your system. If you don’t already have a copy, you can download Visual Studio 2019 here . [ Also on InfoWorld: Introducing Microsoft .NET 6 ] Create a .NET Core console application project in Visual Studio First off, let’s create a .NET Core console application project in Visual Studio. Assuming Visual Studio 2019 is installed in your system, follow the steps outlined below to create a new .NET Core console application project in Visual Studio. To read this article in full, please click here

Microsoft’s bid to buy Discord is over — for now, at least. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the popular chat startup has ended acquisition talks with the Redmond, Wash. tech giant and others after reports surfaced last month that Discord was in final negotiations about a sale for at least $10 billion. A potential deal “could be rekindled in the future,” WSJ reported. Microsoft last week announced its $19.7 billion deal to buy Nuance Communications and completed a $7.5 billion acquisition of ZeniMax Media this year. It has reportedly shown interest in Pinterest and made a bid for TikTok last fall. Previously: Why Microsoft would want to acquire Discord, which is reportedly exploring a $10B-plus sale

Meeting notes are most useful when they’re written during a meeting and easy to find afterward. Microsoft Teams lets you write notes during a meeting and access them from the meeting appointment at any time in the future. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Making games more accessible is the next technological leap. Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X bring us closer but don’t ignore how Nintendo’s Switch and Microsoft’s Game Pass are changing how we play.