The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources. The Microsoft team took to the pages of Reddit on Wednesday in an Yes... and no, Microsoft’s team replied. “We love VBA, and we plan to keep it around for the foreseeable future,” “Dan,” one of the members of the team, responded. “As we add new features to Windows Desktop and Mac versions of Excel (where VBA is supported), we’ll continue to add [an]
Attackers are creating rogue versions of popular Android applications that compromise the security of devices and are extremely hard to remove. Researchers from mobile security firm Lookout have found more than 20,000 samples of such trojanized apps. They're typically fully functional copies of top Android applications like Candy Crush, Facebook, Google Now, NYTimes, Okta, SnapChat, Twitter or WhatsApp, but with malicious code added to them. The goal of these rogue apps is to aggressively display advertisements on devices. A scary development though is that, unlike traditional adware, they root the devices where they get installed in order to prevent users from removing them.
HBO and Jon Stewart are teaming up, but not for just another TV show. Instead, the former star of The four-year deal also gives HBO first crack at any TV or film projects that Stewart might pursue; but again, HBO hasn’t announced any specifics on that front. The focus for now is on the shorter material. “Appearing on television 22 minutes a night clearly broke me,” Stewart said in HBO’s press release. “I’m pretty sure I can produce a few minutes of content every now and again.”
Windows 10 hit a milestone in the PC gaming world last month: The operating system is now installed on more than a quarter of all computers running Steam. Valve’s monthly With these results, Windows 10 is putting more distance between itself and Windows 8/8.1, which combined account for 20.52 percent of Steam installations. Windows 7 remained the clear favorite, with a 44.42 percent share. As a whole, Windows still accounted for 95.39 percent of Steam installations, though it declined last month by 0.32 percent, almost entirely at the expense of Mac OS X.
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Microsoft is almost ready to begin testing Cortana for the iPhone, with a limited public beta launching in the coming weeks. Users who want to try the iOS beta version of Microsoft’s virtual assistant can fill out
VBulletin Solutions has reset the passwords for over 300,000 accounts on its website following a security breach, and also released emergency security patches. The company's Internet forum software is used on tens of thousands of websites. It's not clear if the patches were prompted by VBulletin Solutions did not immediately respond to an inquiry seeking more details about the patches and their relationship to the breach.
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I spend an unhealthy amount of time thinking about how my lock screen and background images can look better. That’s why I was happy to hear about the Windows Spotlight feature for Windows 10 a few months ago. Spotlight is a feature specific to Windows 10 Home that displays Bing's gorgeous daily images as a slideshow on your lock screen (pictured above) and within some Windows apps. You can enable it by heading to Unfortunately, Windows Pro users are left out of the loop. But there is a DIY way to at least get Bing images as a rotating slideshow on your lock screen. It takes a little bit of clicking and one desktop program. But if you’re a fan of Bing images, like I am, the few minutes of effort will be worth it.
It's the toughest dilemma Android fans have faced in ages, but we can help you choose one of Google's great new Nexus phones.
Airbnb and the so-called "sharing economy" got a shot in the arm as early results on Tuesday suggested that the voters in San Francisco had voted down a measure that would place tight restrictions on the operation of short-term vacation rental businesses. In the wake of accusations that operations like Airbnb were helping push up rents in San Francisco, Proposition F aimed to limit short-term rentals of a housing unit to 75 days per year, among other measures. More than 55 percent of the about 133,000 ballots cast
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Users of Microsoft's OneDrive online storage service on Tuesday railed against the company's decision to ditch its unlimited allowance, calling it a betrayal and asking why all are being penalized for the excesses of a few. "Why punish everyday subscribers for those that are abusing your system with possibly illegal content?" asked someone identified only as John in the comment that kicked off more than 600 messages appended to "I do video renderings for work. I take max 3TB online. This is extremely bad for me," added Jarno Burger about the new maximum allotment of 1TB.