Windows Advisor Issue 1

W elcome to the first issue of Windows Advisor, the magazine dedicated to all things Windows. our aim is to provide you with everything you need to know about Microsoft’s operating system, including the latest news, laptop and PC reviews, features, plus tutorials. This month, we take at look at both Microsoft’s Surface Laptop and Surface Pro tablet. We’ve also tips and tricks to help you become a Windows 10 master, plus we reveal how to build a classic games emulator. We hope you enjoy the issue.…

Two things will immediately strike you about the new Surface Laptop: it’s amazingly light and sturdy, and it borrows a lot of its look and feel from the Surface Pro 4. Think of the Surface Laptop as Microsoft’s answer to the MacBook Air: pricey, thin and with battery life that goes on and on and on. It’s not a Chromebook competitor, but a far more premium experience. It does, however, run the new Windows 10 S: essentially Windows 10, but limited to apps from the Windows Store. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop is available to buy from fave.co/2tagfhF. Prices are as follows: £949: 128GB SSD, Intel Core i5, 4GB RAM £1,249: 256GB SSD, Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM £1,549: 256GB SSD, Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM £2,149: 512GB SSD, Intel Core i7,…

M icrosoft’s Surface Pro line-up has remained largely unchanged for the past two generations. Now you can make that three: the new Surface Pro (2017) – no, not the Surface Pro 5 – features substantial internal improvements, but otherwise refuses to mess with a good thing. Ranging in price from just £799 to a whopping £2,699, the Surface Pro is slightly more expensive than its Surface Pro 4 predecessor, which has been discounted from £749 to £636 at fave.co/2rkruqb. The new Surface Pros are available to purchase from fave.co/2swwDMH now. Perhaps the biggest change is semantic: Microsoft has decided to call the Surface Pro a ‘laptop’ rather than a 2-in-1. The firm isn’t abandoning the idea of a ‘tablet that can replace your laptop’, but it believes that users now…

M icrosoft wants you to use Windows 10’s inking talents in your everyday work life, and that’s why it’s offering two new features: a custom collection of pens that will roam with you from device to device, and coming later, the Whiteboard collaborative app. Both build upon new inking capabilities Microsoft has incrementally added to its hardware and its Windows oS, as well as office. one of the features of the new Surface Pro (2017), for example, is a more sensitive Surface Pen with tilt capabilities and an almost unnoticeable pen latency, to make digital ink feel smooth and seamless. Beginning in June, Microsoft will allow office 365 subscribers to ‘save’ a gallery of pen inks that will roam across devices as well as the Microsoft excel, PowerPoint and Word…

M icrosoft may be using Windows 10 Insider Build 16199 to flesh out its My People experience for Windows 10, but chances are you’ll find a few of the new Settings to be the more useful features. Like other Settings, the new additions – the updated System Health listings, new tips videos, and a more comprehensive Storage Sense – won’t be called out, and you’ll have to know where to look for them. Another improvement, a notification that will pop up on your screen when your Android phone receives a call, is part of the new cross-device connectivity built into the upcoming Fall Creators Update. Some useful new Windows 10 Settings one of the issues with any product, really, is a lack of good documentation. (There’s a reason that we…

T he Asus ZenBook Flip UX560 is a strange laptop, one that wants to be both a trendy slim hybrid (both a laptop and a tablet) but powerful enough to be the main computer for most families. It’s the sort of laptop you might buy if you’re torn between buying a computer you can use on the sofa and an all-in-one PC. The more you think about it in its real-life context, the more the Asus ZenBook Flip UX560 makes sense. It can handle a bit of everything. There are a few issues that stop us from recommending it unconditionally, though. The screen is very reflective due to its dated touchscreen construction, it may not be as powerful as you may expect and build quality in certain areas could be…