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Sep22017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Microsoft Just Confirmed The Next Big Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update Release Date

Technology

Windows 10 has met the interest of users and is currently the fastest growing Operating System. Away from the fame of other versions, it still manages to be a system that appeals to most users. After several versions have been released, all with improvements and many new features now it is the time to release Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update. The tech giant Microsoft confirmed today that the date is October 17th. This date had already been advanced in several rumors that pointed it up as certain for the release of Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update. The tech giant Microsoft never confirmed, refusing to comment. For today, Terry Myerson, the vice president of Microsoft Windows and devices, finally confirmed the date. It will be on October 17th when the Fall Creators Update of W...

Aug292017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

The Most Expressive Skype Is Now Available on Linux

Technology

The tech giant Microsoft, since the purchase of Skype in 2011, has tried to make this one of the most used communication services by users. Hence, to do so, the tech giant Microsoft has launched the most expressive Skype ever made for Linux. Meet The Most Expressive Skype Ever Made For Linux. Not being an easy task, it has brought new functionality, design-level redesign and news to its primary communication service along with Outlook. Having made available over the last few months a new version of Skype for iOS, Android, Windows and MacOS, this renewed version now comes to Linux. This new application for Linux, the Skype Preview, is replacing the previous Beta application of Skype, has undergone many changes and improvements compared to the previous version. It now has a more modern d...

Apr102017 by Team - The Digital Indian1 Comment

Critical Word 0-day is only 1 out of 3 Microsoft bugs under attack

Technology

A zero-day code-execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office is one of three critical flaws under active attack in the wild, Microsoft warned Tuesday as it rolled out a batch of updates that plug the security holes. Further Reading Microsoft Word 0-day used to push dangerous Dridex malware on millions As reported earlier, attackers are exploiting the flaw to infect unsuspecting Word users with bank-fraud malware known as Dridex. Blog posts published Tuesday morning by security firms Netskope and FireEye reported that attackers are exploiting the same bug to install malware with the names Godzilla and Latenbot. Ryan Hanson, a researcher at security firm Optiv and the person Microsoft credited with reporting the critical bug, said exploits can execute malicious code even w...

Jan262017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Satya Nadella appointed as Starbucks board member

Economy

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been appointed to join the board of Starbucks. Nadella has been nominated along with President and CEO of Sam’s Club Rosalind Brewer and Executive Chairman of the LEGO Brand Group J rgen Vig Knudstorp, thereby increasing the count of people in the Board of Directors to 14. Nadella was born in Hyderabad, India and became CEO at Microsoft in February 2014. He said he was honoured to be appointed as one of the Board members. He also said that he has always admired Starbucks’ focus and deep passion for its customers and the communities it does business in and that he hopes his years of experience in the technology industry will be of value to the company. Starbucks, on their part, praised Nadella and said he was put forward for his invaluable insight...

Jan102017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Russia Demands Apple & Google To Remove LinkedIn From App Stores

Technology

Recently, the Russian Government decided to ban LinkedIn and to do so Russia asked Apple and Google to simply remove the LinkedIn app from their app stores. The problems of LinkedIn and Microsoft in Russia have been rising in recent months. Failure to comply with the rules imposed led to the social network being banned. Now Russia wants to do much more to block access by asking Google and Apple to simply remove the LinkedIn app from their app stores. The decision to ban LinkedIn Russia was taken in October 2016 in response to the decision of a court case. Failure to comply with the decision to maintain local users’ data on Russian territory has thus ended. Immediately, LinkedIn was blocked, becoming inaccessible in the country, either by the browser or the applications. Of cour...

Mar32014 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Learn Windows User Accounts, Groups, Permissions & Their Role in Sharing

Technology

This article is intended for people who have their own home network with at least one Windows PC or device. The end objective is to give you the knowledge you need in order to set up sharing in Windows and be able to share files, folders, and devices with other PCs or devices in your home network, regardless of the operating system. In this first lesson you will learn what a user account is and what the most important characteristics of a user account are. Then, we will go into detail about the types of user accounts that are available in Windows and what’s different from this perspective in Windows 8 versus Windows 7. As you will see, the newest versions of Windows have added new user types that are very different than what you have been accustomed to in the past. Next, we will explain ...

Dec62011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Fix Error – “Word Cannot Start the Converter MSWRD632.WPC”

Technology

Recently, I had a user in my office get the following error when trying to open a Word document: Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc. Whenever the user clicked the OK button, it would simply pop back up. What was really weird is that if she clicked on the red X button, the document would open just fine! Strange! The user was running Office 2007 and getting this error. After doing some research, we came across a few possible solutions. In this post, I’ll list them out here. Method 1 – Unregister Text Converter Basically, in Windows XP SP2 and above and Windows Server 2003 SP1 and above, if you have a plain text file or another kind of file that is not a Microsoft Word file, but has a .doc extension, you will get this error. This can also happen if you are opening a really...