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Mozilla will introduce subscriptions to one or more as-yet-unknown services this fall, but will not charge people to use its Firefox browser, the company said. “A high-performing, free and private-by-default Firefox browser will continue to be central to our core service offerings,” David Camp, Mozilla’s top executive for the browser, …

Office 365 subscribers always have the latest version of Microsoft Office — currently Office 2016. They also get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office 2016 without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches and bug fixes. But it can be …

Chrome gets fat while every other browser starves. Now with more than two-thirds of the world’s browser user share – a measure of browser activity calculated monthly by metric vendor Net Applications – Google’s Chrome has no peer in popularity. Its rivals are barely worth the name, with Microsoft’s Edge …

Cookies are usually delectable delights, but web cookies can sometimes be less than delightful. These little files hide in your computer so that your browser and websites can track your browsing sessions and save certain useful information, such as account names and passwords, for later retrieval. Although cookies may seem …

Log on to a computer in an office, public library, or college campus; you’ll often find Microsoft Excel on the list of installed programs. When you first open it, you might be confused, or even underwhelmed, as it just looks like a simple spreadsheet program on the surface. However, Excel …

Microsoft said Monday that it’s adding intelligence to its Microsoft Flow application as well as PowerApps, giving those apps to see the world—quite literally, in some cases. While end users are quite familiar with the standard Office apps—Excel, PowerPoint, and Word—Microsoft is trying to encourage end users to adopt PowerApps …

Great writing rarely comes naturally. Deadlines force us to cut corners, so we produce work that — while good — falls short of perfection. And that’s what makes ProWritingAid Premium such an indispensable tool, especially considering you can get a two-year subscription at half price. ProWritingAid Premium is a desktop …

Migrating your important data, movies, and music from your phone to your computer is a slow, tedious process, and it’s even more inconvenient when you’re trying to transfer them to a brand new phone, especially if your iCloud account is out of storage. If you’re looking for a tool that …

Sharing recordings of your gameplay is all the rage these days, but believe it or not, watching someone play a video game is about as old as the pastime itself. When Q-bert and Ms. Pac-Man roamed the earth, it wasn’t unusual to see a group of kids clustered around an …

The web browser is by far the most important piece of software on your PC—at least for most users. Unless you’re at a workstation crunching numbers or editing the next Star Wars you probably spend the majority of your computer time staring at a web app or a website. That’s …

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Google’s Chrome OS platform sure has come a long way. From the early days, when Chrome OS was little more than an experimental “browser in a box,” to today — with the platform powering first-class hardware and supporting a diverse range of productivity applications — Google’s once-crazy-seeming project has turned …