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Kip Kniskern

Kip has been a Microsoft enthusiast since forever, and worked on/ran LiveSide.net, a website dedicated to all things Windows Live, for 9 years. Kip came to (WinBeta.org) onmsft.com in December 2014, and is loving every minute of it. Twitter email

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Windows 10 1903, Windows Server 1903 to drop password expiration requirements in proposed security guidelines

Today on the Microsoft Security Guidance blog, the company has published an explanation of its draft release of its security…

Kip Kniskern · April 24, 2019 · 2 min read

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Microsoft to expand Azure Western Region, build two new data centers in Goodyear, Arizona

Microsoft is continuing to build out its already massive array of Azure datacenters, and the latest plans include building two…

Kip Kniskern · April 23, 2019 · 2 min read

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The future of Microsoft Sets remains unclear after a day of back and forth

Last Friday, a Microsoft Senior Program Manager working on Windows Console tweeted out what appeared to be confirmation that Microsoft…

Kip Kniskern · April 22, 2019 · 3 min read

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Microsoft is still working on a tabbed experience for Windows, even though Microsoft Sets is “no more”

Microsoft first introduced a way to bring tabs to File Explorer and other parts of the Windows with Sets, a…

Kip Kniskern · April 22, 2019 · 2 min read

New Edge Insider browser can change user agent strings based on what website you’re visiting

One of Microsoft’s biggest reasons for making the switch from EdgeHTML as a rendering engine to Chromium has been that…

Kip Kniskern · April 19, 2019 · 2 min read

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Edge Insider Dev and Canary builds get updates, add support for Windows Mixed Reality headsets

Microsoft’s move to rebuild its Edge web browser using Chromium hits another landmark today with the first Edge Insider Dev…

Kip Kniskern · April 18, 2019 · 2 min read

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Microsoft gets sloppy shutting down Windows 8 Live Tile service, gets pwned (updated)

Back in the day, when Microsoft was full of promise and high hopes for Windows 8 and its forced implementation…

Kip Kniskern · April 17, 2019 · 2 min read

Windows 10 version 1809 features many gaming improvements inspired by user feedback

Microsoft is big these days on collecting user feedback, and that includes Xbox and Gaming on Windows 10. Yesterday the…

Kip Kniskern · April 12, 2019 · 1 min read

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Windows Insider Fast and Skip Ahead Rings merge today for 20H1 testing

As was expected, Microsoft today merged the Windows Insider Fast Ring, which has been testing version 19H1, with the Skip…

Kip Kniskern · April 10, 2019 · 2 min read

Microsoft makes Edge Chromium Insider preview available for download, get Dev or Canary channel builds now!

It’s here! Or rather, they’re here. Thanks to a tweet from WalkingCat, we can tell you that the much anticipated…

Kip Kniskern · April 8, 2019 · 1 min read