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News: Windows 10 has stopped driver updates via Device Manager

  Windows 10 has removed one method of updating device drivers for those running the most recent May 2020 Update, namely via Device Manager. This move came quietly in the recent cumulative May 2020 windows update (build 19041.423), which arrived with some bug fixes. Before this update arrived one could update drivers by pending the Device Manager, select any particular driver you'd like to update and select the search for update option to automatically connect to windows servers and download the drivers. Instead of being able to update, Device manager would notify if there's any new update and redirect you to Windows Update or the manufacturers site. In other words, those who wish to update directly under Windows 10 will now have to head to Windows Update in Settings, which in all likelihood is where you head for updates anyway (or alternatively, visit the downloads page or appropriate section of the manufacturer’s site). Windows is doing this to reduce just how many possible w...

Google Chrome OS New Features Could Be A Threat To Microsoft Windows OS

Sample of Chrome OS   Google Chrome OS vice president John Solomon in his blog post titled ‘The future of computing showed up early’ has revealed that native Windows apps - including Microsoft Office - will soon run on Chromebooks. This development is a really massive one has it gives users the opportunity to use Googles fast and reliable OS without having to worry about missing some features Windows OS provided has all windows features and software would be running on Chrome OS. Chromebooks showing the RAS running Windows sotwares Google hopes to achieve this by partnering with Parallels, a visualization software business. Parallels had already developed a Remote Application Server (RAS) which could virtualize Windows apps and even a full Windows desktop on Chrome OS, but users can't use this feature while offline and the performance could lag due to bad network connections. Google is working to fix these issues and probably find a way to make this feature work offline (I don...