March 2018

Microsoft will release the next feature update for the Windows 10 operating system, called the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, in April 2018.

The company releases feature updates twice a year; these updates introduce new features and bigger changes to the operating system opposed to cumulative updates which tend to focus on security updates and bug fixes.

Feature updates take longer to install as it is closer to installing Windows from scratch than installing a smaller update.

Windows 10 users who use Google Chrome as the default web browser on a device that supports touch controls may have noticed that Chrome's support for touch controls is not the best.

It is easy enough to find out that the browser's support for touch-based events is lacking if you compare it to touch support in Microsoft Edge. Whereas using a touchpad to zoom or scroll in Microsoft Edge is butter-smooth, touch events feel sluggish in Google Chrome.

Facebook Container is a new browser extension for Firefox by Mozilla that isolates Facebook from the rest of your browsing history to prevent tracking.

Internet and computer users are exposed to different kinds of tracking when they use their devices or browse sites on the Internet.

One of the many tedious tasks when setting up a new system, or if you've just installed new software to replace something you used previously, is to change the default software used when opening up different types of files.

For example, I may have GIMP open when I click on a .png file, but Gwenview open for .jpg files, if I find myself editing .png files often but hardly doing more with .jpg's than viewing them. Or perhaps you want to set all python files to automatically open in Atom when you double click them?

Nvidia released the GeForce Game Ready 391.35 WHQL driver to the public featuring improvements for select games, security patches, and quite a large number of issues.

First, the basics: Nvidia users and system admins who don't use GeForce Experience for driver updates can download the latest driver from the company's official download site.

A product announcement on the official Adobe Muse website reveals that Adobe will end support for the website building software for Mac and PC.

The company released a final feature update yesterday (March 26, 2018) and plans to release compatibility updates and bug fix updates for Windows and Mac systems until May 20, 2019.

Waterfox 56.1.0 was released on March 26, 2018. The new version of the web browser comes with security updates, reintroduced support for Mac OS 10.7, a Google Play Store presence for the browser's Android version, and a redesigned website.

Waterfox users can run a manual update check with a tap on the Alt-key, and the selection of Help > About Waterfox. The browser should pick up the new version and install it automatically.

Android device users who run Google apps on devices that are not certified by Google receive "Device is not certified by Google" messages when they attempt to open Google applications such as Google Maps or Gmail on their devices.

Google Apps refers to a set of applications that most Android devices come with automatically; affected users can't access any of these apps, Google Play store for instance.

While it is still possible to install Google applications on blocked Android devices, it appears that they refuse to work properly on affected devices.

Mozilla released Firefox 59.0.2 to the stable release channel on March 26, 2018 for all supported operating systems.

The new version of the web browser includes security fixes and patches for several issues affecting users of the application.

Firefox 59.0.2 is available via the web browser's integrated updating system and as a standalone download from Mozilla.

When Microsoft released a technical preview of the upcoming Windows 10 operating system back in 2014, word got out pretty quickly that the operating system shipped with keylogging functionality that was turned on by default.