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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 Insider build 18309: Cortana gets shut down by default during setup, and other fixes and known issues

Microsoft just released build 18309 to the Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring, and as usual there’s a long list of…

Kip Kniskern · January 3, 2019 · 5 min read

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OnMSFT on Azure – first impressions on our move to Microsoft’s cloud

To be fair, this site has been “in the cloud” for years, running on a VM at Rackspace, but when…

Kip Kniskern · January 3, 2019 · 6 min read

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Is 2019 the Year of Azure for Microsoft? It is for onmsft.com!

Happy New Year everyone! Hope all of you are enjoying all that the new year brings. For us here at…

Kip Kniskern · January 1, 2019 · 3 min read

Use this Windows 10 troubleshooting package to hide problem updates | On MSFT

Use this Windows 10 troubleshooting package to hide problem updates Kip Kniskern Jul 27th, 2015 in Latest news Microsoft’s plan…

Kip Kniskern · December 29, 2018 · 2 min read

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Want to learn more about containers? Check out the latest in the Windows Insider Internals series

For some of us, “computing” means reading Twitter, checking email, and playing games. On the other end of the spectrum…

Kip Kniskern · December 18, 2018 · 2 min read

More Edge/Chromium info comes to light – will support Chrome extensions, more on PWAs

We’re still digesting the implications of Microsoft’s momentous decision to move Edge from its proprietary browser engine, EdgeHTML, to the…

Kip Kniskern · December 7, 2018 · 3 min read

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Edge bombshell recap: what we’ve learned (and still don’t know) about Microsoft’s Chromium based web browser

Some days are more interesting than others, and late yesterday, things got real interesting in the Microsoft-watching world as Windows…

Kip Kniskern · December 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Congratulations Michael West, soon to be Microsoft intern

Over the years we’ve come to know a number of Windows enthusiasts, either frequent commenters or frequent contributors on Twitter,…

Kip Kniskern · November 28, 2018 · 1 min read

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No new Windows 10 Insider builds this holiday week, says Insider team from Vancouver, BC

Windows Insider team members Brandon LeBlanc and Jason Howard are in Vancouver BC today, just kicking off another Windows Insider…

Kip Kniskern · November 20, 2018 · 1 min read

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Built in OneDrive filesharing comes to latest Skype Insider builds

On the heels of releasing Skype calling for Alexa earlier today, a post on the Microsoft Answers forum also reveals…

Kip Kniskern · November 19, 2018 · 1 min read