modern apps

My line of work requires me to test lots of applications regularly. That often makes my computer vulnerable to malware and adware. So I like to install them in a sandboxed environment instead. Both Windows Sandbox and Sandboxie are tailor-

Microsoft is on an update spree. With the Anniversary Update in July and the follow up updates of September, Windows is getting improvement & fixes more rapidly than Note 7s catching fire. Microsoft is now experimenting (rather updating) wit

In this mobile-centric world, we still spend a good part of the day working on PCs and Laptops. And sometimes, we don’t get enough time to grab our smartphone and scroll through the latest news and favorite websites.

In Windows 8/8.1 Microsoft didn’t offer enough control over Modern apps. You couldn’t move your modern apps from one partition to another. But, now in Windows 10 you can. In fact, you can install and run Windows 10 modern apps from an external dri

Microsoft has created two different worlds for Windows user. One is the good ol’ desktop interface which we are all familiar with along with the Modern Apps that were introduced with Windows 8. The modern interface was launched targeting the t

After the increasing demand of Android and iOS on tablets, Microsoft introduced Windows 8 as a combo of desktop, laptop and tablet operating systems.

Windows 8 brought modern apps and the new Start screen. You didn’t care. Windows 8.1 brought you a way to boot directly to the desktop and keep away from Modern/Metro apps as much as possible, you jumped on that train. My story was similar. But with

Microsoft was late to the personal assistant game. Siri and Google Now have been here for more than a year now. Microsoft took its sweet sweet time to unveil Cortana. Turns out that time was not wasted at all. Microsoft clearly kept tabs on both Siri

Update: SoundFlake has been pulled down from the App Store indefinitely. Read about the developer’s ordeal with SoundCloud here. I have a confession to make – I’m not really a SoundCloud fan. Until last month, my “Stream” was empty, my acco

As a Windows 8 user, do you care where are all the Modern apps you download from the store installed on your computer? Well, I never did until today. I was already running out of space on my Windows directory and after I installed a couple of apps fr

If you are using Modern Internet Explorer on Windows 8 , you might have noticed that sometimes flash videos don’t load on quite a few websites. It’s not that the Modern Internet Explorer does not support flash videos, it only plays them for some

To ease the searching needs of Windows 8 RT tablet users, Microsoft provides an in-house Bing Search Modern UI app. As expected, to make the search experience even better Google recently launched their own Modern UI search app for Windows 8. And it t

Most of the users who were using the beta and release preview versions of Windows 8 and have recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro might have noticed that none of the Modern UI Style apps that they installed on the previous versions were transferred.