Microsoft Articles
- Downgrading a Microsoft Surface Device to Windows 10 You can reinstall Windows on a Surface tablet or laptop using a hardware-specific recovery image and a USB drive. Microsoft will want you to log in and provide the serial number of the device you want to reinstall.
- How to disconnect OneDrive on macOS from an extra account that doesn’t exist anymore. Hidden inside the resource folder of the OneDrive app package, there’s a command to reset OneDrive.
- Minecraft Bedrock Beta vs. the Microsoft Store There’s got to be a better way to do this. Actually, I know there’s a better way to do this, because Minecraft already does it in Java Edition.
- Outlook Mangling HTML <pre> Tags It’s 2026, and Outlook is still mangling email. It’s collapsing whitespace and line breaks in HTML preformatted text, so you need to fake around it with non-breaking spaces and <br> tags.
- Unhide the Windows 10 ESU Offer Windows Update is a bit flaky about making the offer to enroll a Windows 10 system in an extra year of security updates. If it’s not showing the offer, this can make it re-check whether your system qualifies: cmd /c ClipESUConsumer.exe -evaluateEligibility
- WGA False Positive Experience The time Windows mistakenly told me I was running a pirated copy…because Norton Internet Security had blocked its validation attempt.
- What do GNOME Online Accounts Do? It’s not obvious which services GNOME will use from each provider. Here’s where to find it.