Improvements to Cortana are featured in the latest Windows 10 preview build. Cortana now understands Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil) and French (Canada), and it’s now easier to set reminders without a specific date or time.
Build 14279 also includes fixes for a few stability issues, including problems experienced by some users when installing driver updates.
The latest solid state hard drive from Samsung isn’t just the biggest SSD drive, it’s currently the biggest drive of any type available. While the drive is apparently shipping, there’s no published price as yet. You can expect it to be in the range of $8,000 to $10,000.
There are fixes for at least twenty-six security issues in the latest version of Chrome, 49.0.2623.75.
The release announcement lists the most important security fixes, while making it clear that the full details may not be made available until the majority of users have had a chance to update.
The full change log for Chrome 49 seems to go on forever. I tried to find the end of it, but gave up after a few pages. At least it doesn’t try to load in one page, since that would probably crash most browsers. Presumably if Google had made any really interesting changes in Chrome 49, they would have been mentioned in the announcement.
A few minor bug fixes and performance improvements found their way into version 35.0.2066.92, the latest release of Opera ‘Stable’.
None of the changes are related to security, so there’s no rush to update, although if you’ve been experiencing problems with Opera on Windows 10, the new version should help.
The full change log doesn’t provide any additional information this time.
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