Microsoft has announced the official Windows 11 release date. It will be October 5th, 2021 The announcement was delivered via the Windows Blog today, stating that this is when the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs. It’s not going to be an instant thing, however, as Microsoft’s phased rollout means that it is only expecting “all eligible devices to be offered the free upgrade to Windows 11 by mid-2022.” This October 5 date is also when new PCs will start being sold which come pre-loaded with Microsoft’s brand new OS. Calling this “the first version of ..read more

Microsoft has announced plans to soon release Windows 11. Windows 11 will be free for all Windows 10 users, and includes a whole bunch of new features and improvements over the current version of Windows. To get news and updates about Microsoft’s new Operating System, please head to our new site www.Windows11news.com This is exciting stuff! The post www.Windows11news.com is live! appeared first on The Redmond Cloud ..read more

A whole new virtual world. Parallels has announced the availability of version 16.5 of its virtualization software Parallels Desktop for Mac. It brings with it native support for Apple silicon. In other words, the new Apple M1 chipset. This also means that Windows 10 ARM is now compatible with these custom processors. And those of you who want to run Microsoft’s operating system on their M1 powered Apple computers can now do so effortlessly. The benefits of native support are plenty evident, as virtualization programs tend to use a significant amount of hardware resources. Having native and fu ..read more

Right on schedule, Microsoft has released a new preview build. Windows 10 build 21359 has landed in the Dev channel, and it comes with a couple of peculiar changes. You might recall that last week, the firm switched over to the co_release branch. So, unsurprisingly there is not much in the way of new features in this build. Save for a few minor changes that you may or may not appreciate. Details on them below, but do note that there are a lot of fixes and improvements in this one. Find out what these are if you are installing this version by giving the announcement post a scan. Anyway, in term ..read more

Microsoft has released another bunch of updates for its OS and software platforms, with the April 2021 Patch Tuesday updates release coming in hot with a range of fixes. The second Tuesday of the month usually has the company releasing new patches for all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 — as long as you are a business that is paying for extended security updates. There are two types of updates for the two older mainline operating systems and their server counterparts, a monthly rollup that is installed automatically and a security only update tha ..read more

Microsoft promised, and Microsoft delivered! The company teased an important Age of Empires IV event for April 10, a fan preview that would shed more light on what’s coming to the RTS game. And true to its word, the company revealed a lot of new information about the next installment in the eternal Age of Empires series. The streamed event was high on videos, and there are a ton of new clips that show the strategy game in action. From gameplay and graphics, to the included civilizations, and the campaigns that players will be able to entertain themselves with. The show even ended with a stinge ..read more

After an unexpected pause last week, Microsoft is here with a new preview build on Wednesday, as usual. The release this time is Windows 10 build 21354, which brings about a number of changes. Including having Paint and Snipping Tool now being updated through the Microsoft Store — just like the good old Notepad. Other than that, there are a few News and Interest improvements that have now become a regular occurrence. But as the release notes reveal, nothing major in terms of new features. What’s probably more interesting is that this build is from the co_release branch, rather than the usual p ..read more

What took them so long? Microsoft has confirmed that it is planning a series of mini events at the upcoming BUILD 2021 developer conference that the company calls “What’s Next”. These are designed to basically highlight the path forward for its products and services. BUILD will take place from May 25 to 27 this year, as the biggest Microsoft annual show. It will be an online only event, because of obvious reasons. And while the full agenda of the event is yet to be revealed, we have some hints at what is being planned. Mary Jo Foley is here with the details, confirming that these mini events w ..read more

Time for an explanation! Microsoft experienced a massive outage last week. On April 1, most of the company’s services went down due to what was a DNS issue with Azure. The company has now released a detailed status update explaining what went wrong. Apparently, there was an unusual surge in Azure DNS queries from all over the world, which the cloud platform is designed to mitigate through layers of caches and traffic shaping. However, a specific series of events exposed an error in the code for the DNS service that basically made it less efficient. How, you ask? The software titan has systems ..read more

Good things happen when imagination runs wild. Someone has created an improved design of the Windows 10 Mail app. It is a lot less cluttered, bringing along a more minimalistic look. The OS comes with a built-in application to handle emails. In theory, this should be the ideal client for most users. But in practice, the default Windows 10 Mail app leaves a lot to be desired — not only in terms of looks and features but also when it comes to performance, stability, and overall reliability. Not only is the Mail app painfully slow to load, it also sometimes fails to retrieve new email, even if yo ..read more