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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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Articles by Kip Kniskern

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Bing is down in China, did it get blocked by the Great Firewall?

Bing is apparently suffering widespread outages in China, starting late Wednesday local time. A VentureBeat report says that Microsoft is…

Kip Kniskern · January 23, 2019 · 2 min read

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First build for Windows 10 “19H2” Fall 2019 release spotted via leaked build numbers

If you’ve been following along at home, there’s been quite the saga surrounding leaked Windows 10 build numbers lately. Recently,…

Kip Kniskern · January 23, 2019 · 2 min read

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Microsoft Surface gets more airtime in NFL playoff game, Panos says “it’s fine”

Yesterday was the NFL’s League Championship weekend, where the two top teams in each conference played each other for the…

Kip Kniskern · January 21, 2019 · 2 min read

Bing Ads to become exclusive search advertising platform for Verizon, including Yahoo, with new deal

Back in 2007, Microsoft famously attempted to acquire Yahoo!, but settled for the Bing-Yahoo Search Alliance, which placed Bing Search…

Kip Kniskern · January 17, 2019 · 1 min read

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After publishing a flurry of unreleased Windows 10 build info, BuildFeed checks out and shuts down (updated)

Over the weekend, there was an unusual amount of shall we say interesting activity over at BuildFeed.net, a site dedicated…

Kip Kniskern · January 14, 2019 · 4 min read

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Windows OneCore – WCoS mentions, more begin showing up on BuildFeed, what does it mean?

BuildFeed is a popular 3rd party Twitter account and website that does one thing, scours the internet (we think, or…

Kip Kniskern · January 14, 2019 · 2 min read

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Windows 7 begins its last year of free-support life as time marches on

Windows 7 was introduced to the world in January of 2009, the successor to a fairly disastrous Windows Vista release,…

Kip Kniskern · January 14, 2019 · 2 min read

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WallpaperHub.app developer creates “Bliss at Night,” the classic Windows XP wallpaper for dark themes

Our friend Michael Gillett, who created WallpaperHub.app, a repository for Microsoft-centric wallpapers in a variety of themes and sizes, has…

Kip Kniskern · January 7, 2019 · 1 min read

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Could Microsoft win the Pentagon’s one-winner JEDI contract over Amazon? Maybe, says Seeking Alpha

This April, the US Department of Defense is set to award a multi-year contract to a single cloud provider in…

Kip Kniskern · January 7, 2019 · 2 min read

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CES 2019: HP’s leather PC is now available in burgundy, a 65″ gaming display, and more

The new year has officially started as news from the first big tech trade show of the year, CES, has…

Kip Kniskern · January 7, 2019 · 1 min read