The Windows 10 FAQ: Everything You Need to Know

Did You Know? The official dresscode of the Walt Disney parks forbids guests over the age of eight (nine is the cut-off boundary) from wearing costumes; little princesses and Peter Pans are fine but the only adults allowed to dress up are official cast members. Geek Trivia The Khasi People Of Northern India Craft What Out Of Living Trees? Ladders → Suspension Bridges → Livestock Pens → Homes → Advertisement Download 2015 Cloud Technology Kit (a $19.99 value) FREE for a limited time! Kit includes "Hybrid Cloud for Dummies" plus 3 other resources to help you find the right combination of public, private, and data center resources to empower your business. Click here to download Thoughts from the Geek New Windows Microsoft advertising SDK with support for video interstitials [Windows Blog] Today we are releasing the capability to display video interstitials through the Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK. Video ads are a highly popular way of monetizing apps and games, and can offer higher eCPM than banner ads. Video Ads are supported in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 through the Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK released today. Soon apps in the Windows Store (the new Universal apps, that is) will have video ads (one assumes auto-playing) that take over the window and force you to watch a video before playing a game or using an app. If this sounds like something you don’t want your Windows PC to do, you’ll probably notice that they call it a “highly popular way of monetizing apps and games”. Popular with who? Advertisers. Game developers. Not popular with you, the user. The whole point of supporting these types of ads in Windows Universal Apps is to try and attract more programmers to write games and other apps for the platform, since even well after launch the quality of the app ecosystem in the Windows Store is well below sub-par levels, which is actually a step up from all the scams and fake apps they had in the Windows 8 days. They are so desperate to get decent apps in the store they made it so Android and iOS apps can be simply recompiled and run on Windows without a lot of work for the developer — in fact, the Candy Crush game in the Windows Store used Microsoft’s toolkit to port the iOS game to Windows. So it makes sense for them to focus efforts on helping developers make money from their games. Forgotten in this whole initiative are the users. Who don’t like or want auto-playing video interstitial ads, ever. 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[Fusion] Stephen Hawking's speech program is now open source and available to anyone [Daily Dot] How Runic games was reborn after Torchlight: The story behind Hob [Polygon] How RED Cameras Changed The Game [New York Film Academy ] IBM's 'Rodent Brain' Chip Could Make Our Phones Hyper-Smart [Wired] How to Create Read-Only Documents You Can Open without a Password in Word There are various reasons why you may want to protect a document. Whatever the case, you may want to make a document read-only without requiring a password to open it. We'll show you a few different methods of doing this. Read This Article → How to Configure and Customize the Taskbar in Windows 10 If you’re already well on your way to becoming a Windows 10 convert, you might have noticed there have been a few tweaks to the way the taskbar is configured and customized for the average user. And although there haven’t been a huge amount of changes since the days of 8.1, Microsoft has still stuck to same ethos it has with much of the rest of its new flagship operating system: even if it ain’t broke, there’s probably a better way to fix it. Read This Article → The Windows 10 FAQ: Everything You Need to Know Now that Windows 10 is available for public download and installation people have more questions than ever about the new version of Windows. We’ve rounded up the questions we get most frequently here at How-To Geek and compiled them to help you get up to speed about Windows 10. Read This Article → How to Disable OneDrive and Remove It From File Explorer on Windows 10 Windows 10 includes OneDrive, and Microsoft’s official party line is that you can’t disable it. That’s not true — there are several ways to disable OneDrive and remove it from File Explorer on Windows 10. Read This Article → How to Personalize Windows 10’s Appearance Windows 10 includes bunch of new personalization settings that let you change your desktop background, windows colors, lock screen background, and more. Here is what you need to know to get your computer looking exactly how you want it. Read This Article → How to Add an Open Password to a Word Document If you're creating a Word document containing sensitive information only to be viewed by certain people, you can add a password to the document so it can't be opened by anyone who doesn't know the password. We'll show you two ways do this. Read This Article → How to Make Notes on Web Pages with Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge, the new replacement for Internet Explorer, lets you take notes, write, doodle, and highlight directly on web pages as a note. Afterwards, you can save or share the web note. In this article we’ll show you how to take notes in Microsoft Edge. Read This Article → 5 Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device Android phones and tablets can fill up quickly as you download apps, fill them with media files, and cache data for use offline. Lower-end devices may only include a few gigabytes of storage. Read This Article → How to Make Windows Photo Viewer Your Default Image Viewer on Windows 10 Windows 10 uses the new Photos app as your default image viewer, but it still includes Windows Photo Viewer — kind of. Microsoft has hidden Windows Photo Viewer on new Windows 10 systems. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies This eBook details what you need to know to select a best of breed network performance management solution and outlines the critical capabilities required for deep application visibility across virtualized, hybrid and cloud networks no matter where a user is located. Click here to download