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Microsoft is planning to build ad blocking directly into its Edge browser on Windows 10, and that integration will be coming soon. This fact was revealed at the company’s Build conference in a session concerning what’s coming next for Edge, where a slide was shown detailing incoming

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used for its Edge browser, according to a blog post. Like many other vendors, Microsoft built its own

  Welcome to today’s ComputerworldUK Daily Digest. We explore devops and ask, what is it?! Also, why your business should upgrade to Windows 10 and what 2016 has instore for Dell. Plus: what publishers should do about adblocking. What is devops? The ultimate definition We explore what

Slack may be the darling of the group communication market right now, but there’s one thing it’s missing: voice and video calling. Microsoft is aiming to patch that up with a new integration between Skype and the popular messaging service. The imaginatively-named Skype integration for Slack creates

Windows 10 Build 10158 was delivered on Monday to the inner circle of the Windows Insider Program, giving them the opportunity to download and install the latest reasonably stable version of the operating system. The new build contains a number of bug fix updates, including a change

Slack is a company seemingly on a roll. The service, for those who haven’t used it, is heralded by many as the way to fix email in all its broken, reply-to-all glory. Listening to the shouts of the Silicon Valley cognoscenti, one would be excused from suspecting

It seems that Microsoft is getting ready to push out a Project Centennial version of theOffice 2016 suite on the Windows Store – or at least, a test version is now available, which certainly points to the possibility of this happening before long. Project Centennial focuses on

Is Microsoft getting rid of numbers and identifiers in the Windows branding? That seems to be the case according to a confidential internal document. On the Microsoft Mobile front, the company is phasing out the Nokia branding, leaving devices to be known only as “Lumia.” The Lumia

Microsoft last week said that the support rules for the Windows Server software would not change, even though the Redmond, Wash. company has said it will curtail support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 after mid-2017. Review: 8 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and

In a Windows 10 preview update issued this week, Microsoft mandated that the feedback functionality built into the beta be switched on, a change from earlier when testers could block questions from the company about what users thought of specific features. LastPass, 1Password, and Dashlane edge KeePass