July 2015

When Firefox 40 comes out, it will look different on Windows 10 systems as Mozilla plans to ship it with theme optimizations for the upcoming Microsoft operating system.

Next week, millions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems will be upgraded to Windows 10 thanks to Microsoft's free upgrade offer and promotion via the operating system's Windows Update service.

The operating system becomes available in stores and pre-installed on computers around the same time.

There has been one major change in past years in regards to how the Firefox web browser is developed and shipped to its users. Mozilla changed to a rapid release cycle in 2011 and has been using the model ever since.

While the organization does not plan to change the six week cycle just yet, its Go Faster initiative changes how Firefox for the desktop is shipped.

Facebook is one of the largest video hosting websites on today's Internet and while YouTube is without doubt the uncrowned king of recorded videos today, it is catching up fast and benefiting from bad marketing decisions by YouTube's management.

One reason why Facebook has not surpassed YouTube yet is that its monetization offerings for content creators are sub-par when compared to YouTube.

A new version of the popular AOMEI Backupper backup software for Windows was released yesterday introducing new features such as support for backup schemes and improved command line support.

The program, available as a limited free and Pro version, is listed on our best free drive backup programs listing for Windows, and updated frequently with new features, for instance File Sync in Backupper 2.8.

Windows Update is configured to search for, download and install driver updates for devices installed on the machine Windows runs on.

That's comfortable at times as you may not have to install a single driver manually after installation of the operating system, but it can be problematic as well for instance if you want to install specific driver versions or if Windows mixes up things and tries to install the wrong drivers on the system.

Version 41 of the Firefox web browser ships with a change that affects how icon fonts are handled by the browser if fonts are blocked in the preferences by the user.

Firefox users can block websites from selecting their own fonts. If they enable that option, no extra fonts get downloaded to the local system.

One consequence of blocking fonts downloads in Firefox is that so-called icon fonts are not displayed as well.

Microsoft pushed out an emergency patch yesterday via automatic updates to all supported versions of its Windows operating system that patches a critical issue that could allow remote code execution when exploited successfully.

Specifically, the vulnerability exploits an issue in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library when specially crafted documents with OpenType fonts are loaded on the system.

Microsoft updated the Windows lifecycle fact sheet in July 2015 to highlight the two support phases for its upcoming operating system Windows 10.

Windows 10, which will be officially unveiled and released on July 29, 2015 is provided as a free upgrade by the company to eligible users.

The announcement caused confusion among some users in January when it was first made as rumors came up that Microsoft would introduce a subscription-based service shortly after the one-year free period.

Millions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines will be upgraded to Windows 10 at the end of July 2015 thanks to Microsoft pushing upgrade offers as Windows updates to machines running those previous versions of Windows.

While the upgrade may retain some functionality and customization from the previous version, it is likely that at least some things need to be configured again.

This guide looks at a couple of improvements for Windows 10 that you may find useful. All improvements start with a general explanation first before the actual tweak or modification is listed.