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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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Microsoft releases Windows 10 Insider build 18343 to 19H1 Fast Ring, unblocks Intel processors

Microsoft dropped a couple of Insider builds on us this Friday morning, including a Fast Ring build (18343) that mainly…

Kip Kniskern · February 22, 2019 · 2 min read

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Santorini, Centaurus, Pegasus – codenames provide clues to Microsoft’s plans for the future of Windows and beyond

Microsoft has been working for years on the modularization of its flagship operating system. Over many years, various fixes and…

Kip Kniskern · February 22, 2019 · 3 min read

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Make your onmsft.com comments stand out with Disqus formatting, now available

We’ve used Disqus, the online commenting system, for years. With built in spam protection, a nice interface, and storage of…

Kip Kniskern · February 18, 2019 · 2 min read

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Windows Insider sad face – no new Fast Ring builds for 19H1 until at least next Tuesday onmsft.com

Although Microsoft was hoping to get a new build out to Fast Ring insiders testing Windows 10 1903/19H1 today (Friday),…

Kip Kniskern · February 15, 2019 · 2 min read

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Changes are coming to the Windows Insider Program, but what’s changing? onmsft.com

Yesterday Microsoft released another Windows Insider build, and as builds go there wasn’t much to it, just a list of…

Kip Kniskern · February 15, 2019 · 3 min read

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Here’s the list of changes and improvements for the first 20H1 Windows Insider Skip Ahead build 18836

Microsoft just released the latest Windows Insider build, this one with a bit of a twist. The new build, 18836,…

Kip Kniskern · February 14, 2019 · 3 min read

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As the Bing-Yahoo! Search Alliance deal closes in on the halfway point, Marissa Mayer looks for changes onmsft.com

This is second quarter earnings week for a number of technology companies. We told you earlier about Monday’s Microsoft earnings,…

Kip Kniskern · February 12, 2019 · 2 min read

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onmsft.com featured in the latest installment of The Azure Podcast

Over the New Year’s holiday, as you may know, onmsft.com moved to a Virtual Machine (Ubuntu 18.04, Nginx, MySQL, WordPress)…

Kip Kniskern · February 2, 2019 · 1 min read

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Windows 10 Insider build 18323 is out, get it now (updated: SNAFU)

Microsoft today released the latest 19H1 build, version 18323, to Fast Ring Insiders, a day and a few hours later…

Kip Kniskern · January 24, 2019 · 1 min read

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Access to Bing in China being restored, at least for some

Chinese internet users experienced a widespread loss of access to Microsoft’s special Chinese version of Bing at cn.Bing.com, and there…

Kip Kniskern · January 24, 2019 · 1 min read