Technology Ramblings

Since the announcement of Windows 10 Tech Preview for phones I've been looking forward to seeing how MS was going to move forward with this OS and installed build 9941.12498 on a Nokia Lumia 635 running Cyan Firmware. MS made the install pretty painless.  You download the Windows Insider app from the Store - request a preview build and login with your Microsoft Account - once completed - you go into settings and use the Update Phone settings app to get the build.   It's about a 45 minute process.   You also need to have Preview for Developers app installed as without it many of the Store Apps will not update. But the install easily grabbed all my current settings and when completed my accounts were all there - mail, contacts, calendar were all sync'd up and apps like OneDrive were all working correctly.    I do have to say that MS has improved the overall user experience of synchronizing content and settings based on your MS account.  Even Music &...

So as a part of its Windows 10 strategy MS announced the concept of Universal Apps and this last week released preview editions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to Windows 10 Tech Preview folks along with an update to build 9935. I've been running the tech preview as a secondary OS on my desktop and as primary on my Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet.  On the Desktop I'm only running the new Universal Office apps - on my tablet I have both Office 2013 and the universal apps. So the good news is at least they can coexist on the same device.   As many of you are aware getting multiple versions of Office to live on the same device was often an exercise in futility. I've really seen not much new with 9935 versus 9926.  The only area I had any challenges with is getting the latest Intel HD graphics drivers to install on my Venue Pro.  They fail with a compatibility error which means there are probably some Dell mods that have been made the impact the generic Intel driver....