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Windows 10 Installed on 200 Million Devices Globally

Windows 10, Microsoft’s flagship OS is now active on more than 200,000,000 devices monthly. This is big news for the Redmond based company that only launched the new version of Windows back in August.

According to the official Windows Experience blog, Windows 10 is now on the fastest ever growth trajectory of any previous version of Windows. That makes it growth 400% faster than Windows 8, and outpaces the adoption of Windows 7 by just under 140%.

The new figures mean that Microsoft are starting 2016 with some really positive news. Microsoft’s stats are impressive, and this also means that the tech company are well on their way to their long term goal of seeing Windows 10 being active on 1 billion devices. 40% of the latest Windows 10 activations came after Black Friday.

The high adoption rate of Windows 10 is seen as being largely due to the positive and enthusiastic response from both consumers and critics.

“We continue to be excited – and humbled – by the incredible response to Windows 10,” said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for the Windows and Devices Group. “Overall, we are seeing significantly higher customer satisfaction with Windows 10 than any prior version of Windows.”

Mehdi also revealed in his blog that people spent “11 billion hours on Windows 10 in December alone.” But it’s not just the high adoption rate of Windows 10 that has given Microsoft reason to be excited about the future.

Mehdi also pointed to other figures that seem to show that Microsoft is riding a wave of resurgence generally:

• People spent more than 44.5 billion minutes in the Microsoft Edge browser across Windows 10 devices last month. It wasn’t revealed how many searches were made for ‘Google,’ however.

• In December, Windows 10 generated more than a 4.5x increase in revenue per device, as compared to Windows 8

• Cortana, Microsoft’s personal assistant has been asked more than 2.5 billion questions since launch. It was however unclear how many bad jokes she had told in that time.
• There have also been around 30% more Bing search queries per Windows 10 device compared to prior versions of Windows.

• In December alone, 60% of paying customer were new to the Windows Store.

2015 was also the year that Microsoft released their first Windows 10 smartphones as well. The Lumia 950 series of phones sold out within a month, with demand apparently outstripping supply.

As Mehdi says in the end of his blog post, 2015 was a great year for Microsoft. 2016 looks set to continue this trend.

 

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Geofencing No-Fly Zones For Drones

Drones are pretty cool, when you think about it. Despite their current pop status as a hobbyist tool and source of entertainment, the military has already employed drones in mission critical situations and law enforcement agencies are already working with the possibilities for disarming tense scenarios with less risk to human life.

 

But that doesn’t stop random drone operators from wreaking havoc with their expensive quadcopter toys. The Federal Aviation Administration has had to issue some pretty restrictive regulations regarding these buzzing mini-planes due to some idiotic drone use, such as the drone that dropped drugs inside the fence of a maximum-security penitentiary (causing a violent riot to erupt). A reward is still offered for information on the drone owners who wanted some pretty rad pictures of raging California wildfires and ended up grounding the helicopters that were supposed to be putting out the blaze. There have even been numerous reports of commercial airline flights that were disrupted during takeoff and landing due to the stupid antics of drone users, as well as a current investigation of a teenager who crafted his own homemade drone complete with a real working handgun that fires while flying.

One drone developer, though, has a solution: geofencing software that establishes automatic no-fly zones around key locations. The company, DJI, has enabled software that will disable their product around crucial targets like airports, sports venues, schools, or government facilities. The technology was implemented on a relatively small-scale last spring after a private drone user accidentally crashed his drone on the White House lawn. In the absence of better regulations that identify the operator’s name and location for the authorities following a violation, blocking drone use is the next best thing.

What remains to be seen will be whether private citizens can setup these no-fly zones around their property. In the 2015 case of a Kentucky property owner who shot down a drone that repeatedly flew too close to his house while his daughter was playing outside, the armed citizen claims the drone had already flown beneath the canopy of a neighbor’s house and spied in the windows before coming to his house and flying very low. Witnesses at the shooter’s trial stated that the drone was below the treeline surrounding the property, although the drone’s owner claims it was at least 200 feet in the air. A judge sided with the defendant by dismissing all criminal charges against the man, but a civil case brought by the drone operator is still undecided.

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AVG Chrome Extension “Web TuneUp” Put 9 Million users at risk

The free Chrome browser extension, ‘Web TuneUp’ made and installed by Netherlands based AVG Antivirus has been unveiled as potentially security threat. The recently discovered vulnerability may have allowed the personal data and browsing history of its users to be exposed to the entire internet. Over 9 million AVG users were exposed to the bug.

 

While the issue has now been fixed, according to this conversation in the Google-Security-Research forum, it took more than one attempt.

The exploit was discovered by Google Security researcher, Tavis Ormandy, who repeatedly then had to take AVG to task when their initial ‘fixes,’ literally seemed to only paper over the cracks of the issue without resolving the problem, which they eventually managed to accomplish.

Ormandy wrote:

“Apologies for my harsh tone, but I’m really not thrilled about this trash being installed for Chrome users…My concern is that your security software is disabling web security for nine million Chrome users, apparently so that you can hijack search settings and the new tab page…I hope the severity of this issue is clear to you, fixing it should be your highest priority.”

Details of how many of the 9 million AVG users who were using the Chrome extension may have had their information stolen are still unclear.

AVG Web TuneUp, is a plugin that is supposed to help protect users from online threats. Finding such a major security flaw highlighted by an outside source, especially by Google itself would have been embarrassing enough in itself; but for a company like AVG it can only have caused major embarrassment.

What has compounded AVG’s error is the fact the extension was force installed by AVG, meaning it overwrote Chrome’s built in security, effectively bypassing Google’s own defences.

AVG has said that the issue was addressed and fixed before Christmas and that any ‘Web TuneUp’ users should have automatically received a fixed updated version.

“We thank the Google Security Research Team for making us aware of the vulnerability with the Web TuneUp optional Chrome extension…The vulnerability has been fixed; the fixed version has been published and automatically updated to users,” AVG said in a statement.

As part of the fall-out resulting from the AVG security issue, AVG will in future be prevented from being allowed to automatically install the extension for users.

 

 

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Difference Between Google Maps, Google Street View and Google Earth

Google has overlapping applications for GPS and navigation services – Google Maps, Google Street View and Google Earth. Of these 3 services, Google Maps is definitely the most popular one. Contrary to popular belief, Google Street View and Google Earth are actually different from Google Maps, though they are related. In this article, we’ll be defining each of these services in detail so that you know their differences.

From the conceptual viewpoint, the objective for all these 3 applications differs – Maps for travelling, StreetView for exploring and Earth for visualizing. Each one of them have different histories and different personalities –

Google Maps

Site – https://maps.google.com
Origin – Acquired from Where 2 Technologies in 2004
Launched – February 8, 2005

Google Maps is Google’s navigation service on both desktops and smart devices. The application is primarily used to set and create routes between destinations all over the world, supplying multiple options for those routes (car, bus, plane, foot, etc.) and allowing users to change them at any time. Google Maps also provides real-time traffic and navigation, giving turn by turn direction to reach destinations. In addition, it supplements itself with the information of the spots or places that find their position in maps.

Google Maps is best known for converting your mobile into a travel guide, giving you turn by turn directions to reach your destination.

Google Street View

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Origin – In 2001, when Google sponsored Stanford University research project called The Stanford CityBlock Project
Launched – 2007 in the US

Street View is a part of both Google Maps and Google Earth, and it allows users to view the panoramic stitched images of streets. This was made possible through Google’s vans that drive all around the areas, allowing a 360-degree view of every stop along the road at most addresses. This is particularly useful to learn about the on-ground situation. However, these images can be outdated by few years, but are silently updated at a given time. Picking up the Pegman and dropping it at any place will open up the Street View in Google Maps.

Street View released as a part of Google Maps in 2007, starting in just a few popular American cities before spreading to rural areas and the rest of the world. Apart from vans, they are also employing boats, camels, snowmobiles and underwater apparatus to capture some of the remotest areas. Street View has evolved over time, too, allowing users to contribute to Street View and Googles via user-made panoramas and what’s kns the “Trekker”, a backpack with a 360-degree camera.

Google Earth

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Origin – In 2001, when Google sponsored Stanford University research project called The Stanford CityBlock Project
Launched – 2007 in the US

Google Earth is a virtual globe of the Earth, and zooming in will allow you to view satellite images of the Earth, which are also viewable on Maps. You can zoom-in till street level which utilizes data from Google Street View. Google Earth is in 3D whereas Google Maps are rendered in 2D and thus Earth offers better visualization, but it also required separate software to run.

With Google Earth, you can discover cities in 3D, fly around the world and view historical imagery of popular places. It also includes visualizations from Mars, Moon, sky, and the ocean.

Interestingly, Google Earth precedes both Maps and Street View. It began as a program made for viewing satellite images of the Earth on a vast 3D modelization of the globe in 2001. Later it got acquired by Google in 2004. But with the introduction of Maps in 2005 and Street View in 2007, it became a part of a much larger entity from Google, with the intent on mapping and showing the world around the user.

All these 3 services are joined together for the complete experience but it does not mean they are one. They are different entities, playing their role in Google’s grand scheme of things.

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