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Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise will soon receive a new feature quite useful for companies and power users. This is Windows Sandbox, a new lightweight desktop environment created especially to run applications in isolation. The main purpose of this, as explained by Microsoft, is to offer greater security in certain situations, such as when we download an .exe file and we are afraid to execute it, or when we need a clean installation of Windows but we do not want to create and configure a machine virtual. Windows Sandbox offers the solution for both cases, it works as an isolated environment in which you can run software that you do not trust without having any impact on your Windows installation. Everything you download or install in the sandbox stays in the sandbox and does not affect anything else. Windows Sandbox is an isolated environment within Windows 10 that self-destroys everything you download or install in it once closed It is basically a lightweight Windows disposable with...

It is December 19 and the year can still be very long to Facebook. Beyond how their actions have evolved in the stock market during the year, it is impossible to remember a worse course for the company, not so much for what they have done in it (as well) but for collecting the harvest of the bad practices carried out during so many years . After scandals like Cambridge Analytica, multiple security breaches or public knowledge and means of bad practices as a result of the publication of internal documents, comes the final culmination. Hand in hand with The New York Times (NYT), which recently published an extensive report on the company where the worst stop was Sheryl Sandberg, comes the publication of an investigation based on hundreds of pages of internal documents and interviews with more than 50 employees showing how Facebook would have reached agreements to allow access to data to 150 companies among which are large technology companies such as Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, Apple...

Finally, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update seems to have come out of almost all its problems and now, more than two months after its initial release, it is available to any Windows 10 user who seeks to update from Windows Update. The famous version that was deleting files of some users was withdrawn just a few days after being released and relaunched officially five weeks later, but not without being stopped from following the problems, so Microsoft had blocked the update on some computers with software or hardware not compatible. This version will probably be remembered as one of the worst updates of Windows 10 in its relatively short life, but not because of the lack of news or features, but because of the accident of its launch and all the failures that were presented, before, during and after of its launch. The infamous Windows 10 October 2018 Update is officially available to all users near the end of December While the critical bug of file loss was solved, others such as inc...

Microsoft has been testing some changes in its search interface for a while, a year ago the Insiders could see a panel similar to the Spotlight in macOS that worked separate from the start menu, but with the October 2018 Update the results with preview of documents and webs were implemented, the interface was not changed. Now, some Insiders who are testing the 18298 build of Windows 10 have witnessed another experiment in which the Search has completely separated from Cortana, in fact, with a different icon for each one in the taskbar. Cortana and the search in Windows 10 have been practically synonymous since Microsoft began to integrate its personal assistant into the system, if you want to look for something there it is always listening even if you never want to talk to it. In this new interface Cortana has its own separate view that they have called "Conversation Canvas" and will be used only to manage Cortana's notes, reminders and connected devices that support ...

One of the most problematic cases of the year in software has been the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, with the star of the show being the erasure of files produced in some computers that installed it in the first hours. Before the avalanche of critics, Microsoft stopped the propagation of the update, and did not resume it until the fifth week, just a month ago. At the time of relaunching the 1809 update, the company stated that they had taken steps to improve the updates from that moment and that they were more than ever committed to the quality of the software. To achieve this, they said they would slow down the update installations. Devices that could present future compatibility problems would not update, even when compulsively pressing "Check for updates" in Windows Update. The exact words were that even for avid search engines for updates, the Windows Update button's roll-out feature would be limited and slower. However, according to a statement from Microsoft d...

If there is a tool that today is equivalent to corporate communication, although it is also widely used by communities, that is Slack. Since its founding, the startup has perfectly understood the needs of companies, offering a multitude of integration options and converting the old IRC into something that caters to the most modern uses. His leadership, especially by image, seemed impregnable.   However, according to a survey of 901 people by SpiceWorks in the world of the company, Microsoft Teams has surpassed the numbers of Slack, and its growth is spectacular. In the same 2016 study, Teams had only 3% adoption, and now that figure is 15%. In the same period of time, Slack has only grown from 13% to 15% of use in companies, something to keep in mind, considering that the company wants to go public. According to the figures of SpiceWorks, the clear leader of the sector is Skype for Business with 44% (growing from 36% in 2016), but it must be taken into account that its us...