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Windows Phone – Windows Phone Recovery Tool

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Following the announcement of the Windows Phone 10 Technical Preview for a subset of devices (see my previous post http://t.co/ClVYPLlvXu, Microsoft has also published a recovery tool to let you roll back to Windows Phone 8.1 if you are not happy or experience blocking issue with this preview. You can download the tool from http://download-fds.webapps.microsoft.com/supportFiles/phones/files/recovery/WindowsPhoneRecoveryToolInstaller.exe

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Windows Phone – Windows Phone 10 Preview is now available… but not for all

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For those who want to start playing with the next version of Windows Phone; Windows Phone 10, a preview is now available. To get your phone updated with this preview, you need to have the Phone Preview app – which by the way has been updated to be called Windows Insider. By the way, for

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Office – Office 2016 Technical Preview now available

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You can now enroll and start playing with the new release of Microsoft Office – called Office 2016. To do so, just reach the Connect directory page and enroll for the  Microsoft Office Consumer Technical Preview. https://connect.microsoft.com/directory/non-feedback  

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Windows 10 – Windows Store stuck in loading

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After updating my Windows 10 Technical Preview to the latest build published earlier (build 9926), all App Store (the current one and the new one in beta) were not working to get any new application and where stuck in loading as shown in the screenshot below   The solution was to run the following commands

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Windows 10 – January Technical Preview First Review

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As Microsoft has just released the January Technical Preview for Windows 10, here is a first review just after the installation. The installation went smoothly without any issue. The issue on the previous build with application which start automatically when Windows starts did not start (like Lync, antivirux, Skype…) has been solved. Tablet Mode My

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Windows 10 – Failed to check for new preview build. Please try again. 0x800700EA SOLVED

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If you are running the preview version of Windows 10, you may be aware that an updated version is available and should be installed through the Update and Recovery section from the PC Settings in the Charm bar. Ok, but if you have enabled Media Center this operation will failed with the error code 0x800700EA.

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Windows 10 – Multiple desktops / Task Views

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With Windows 10 Technical Preview, Microsoft has introduce a new feature called Task View which is in fact a way to use multiple different desktop running different applications – both Windows App or Desktop App.   This feature has been there for a long time on Linux or OSx, and has been there too long

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Windows 10 – Upgrade Surface Pro 3 from Windows 8.1

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A quick post to say the upgrade process from Windows 8.1 on Surface Pro 3 (core i7 / 8 G RAM) went very smoothly and was very quick. After about 15 min, Windows has been upgraded to Windows 10 with no issue. Everything from the application (both Windows App or Desktop App), content (cached from

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Beta – New version of Windows, SQL and Azure

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As you may already know, if not this is it , Microsoft has made some major announcements last week about the future version of Windows Server (Windows Server 2012 R2), SQL server (SQL Server 2014), System Center (System Center 2012 R2) and Windows Azure. So, if you want to start evaluating these new coming version

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Office – The new Office is now officially RTM

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Today, Office Product team (Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync) has put the new version of their products to RTM. Starting now, Office 2013, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013 are now RTM !!! Coming soon, the general availability of these products.

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