System Updates

Microsoft pushes out new updates for Surface RT, Surface Pro

News

By Daniel Rubino, Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:29 pm

It’s “Patch Tuesday”, the traditional day where Microsoft tends to push out some major OS fixes and updates and while it used to be a big Windows day, it’s increasingly more important for Surface owners. That’s because the Surface, a work in progress, is constantly getting tweaked for performance and usability. Today is no different.

Both the Surface RT and Surface Pro have numerous updates queued up for installing, including a few for Office 2013. The bigger deal though is the included firmware, which once again will hopefully fix a few lingering issues some of you may still be having.

Nokia updates Extras + Info, removes charging chime but adds things too

Apps

By Daniel Rubino, Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:01 pm

Last night, Nokia began rolling out the ‘extras + info’ Settings update for their Windows Phone 8 Lumia line.

This app allows Nokia to control and modify certain aspects of the phone without having to do a complete OS or firmware upgrade and indeed there are some minor changes with version 1.7.0.173.

Nokia pushes out another Extras + Info system update for Lumia phones

Apps

By Daniel Rubino, Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:49 pm

Nokia is still tinkering with their system apps on their Windows Phone 8 Lumias. The app Extras + Info, which is a meta-app for Accessory agent, Feedback to Nokia, Nokia First Use Experience and Warranty registration, controls a lot of behind the scene features for the Lumia and as such, are considered to be relatively important.

Like all previous system updates from Nokia, we’re unsure of what the changes are with this rollout. For all we know, they gave language support in Samoa. Or they fixed a major bug.