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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14971 for PC Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14971 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. What’s new in Build 14971 Read EPUB books in Microsoft Edge: The reading experience will get even better with the Windows 10 Creators Update! In addition to providing a great reading experience for PDF files – you can now read any unprotected e-book in the EPUB file format with Microsoft Edge. When you open an unprotected e-book in Microsoft Edge, you will be taken into a customizable reading experience where you can change the font and text size and choose between 3 themes: light, sepia, and dark. As you read, you can leave bookmarks. To navigate through an e-book, you can use the table of contents [ more… ]

Cortana Skill Update: Helping you keep track of your to-do list The Holiday season is coming, which means it’s list making season and Cortana has a new list skill* to help you out. With the new list skill, Cortana can now easily and conveniently help you manage your lists and keep track of the things you need to do so you don’t have to. Whether it’s planning a holiday meal, buying gifts, getting things done before you head out for vacation, or keeping track of who’s naughty or nice, you can use your voice or type to quickly create a new list, add to an existing list when inspiration strikes, and pull up your lists just when you need them on any device. Cortana will automatically start a Grocery, To Do and Shopping list for you so it’s easy to [ more… ]

Why Skimm’r and fashion tech CEO Amanda Curtis loves Surface “Surface — like fashion — is a blend of art and business,”  according to Skimm’r (frequent reader of theSkimm), fashion tech entrepreneur and Surface fan Amanda Curtis. Skimm’r and CEO Amanda Curtis working on Surface Pro 4. As Ferris Bueller says, “life moves pretty fast,” so Amanda relies on her Surface and theSkimm to get the most out of her day. Amanda got her Surface Pro 4 as a gift from her mother-in-law and quickly fell in love because “it lets me use my left brain and right brain in ways that just aren’t possible on a Mac, plus it’s light enough to take anywhere.” While you may know Amanda as the Forbes ranked CEO of fashion tech start up Nineteenth Amendment, you may not realize that she actually used [ more… ]