Get Windows 10 Update from other PC

Downloading Windows update for all your computer units will cost you time and bandwidth.

Since all of your units are downloading same updates, why not download the update on one computer then distribute to other units on the network?

Microsoft have these method embedded on Windows 10 called Windows Update Delivery Optimization.

Windows Update Delivery Optimization lets you get Windows updates and Windows Store apps from sources in addition to Microsoft. This can help you get updates and apps more quickly if you have a limited or unreliable Internet connection. And if you own more than one PC, it can reduce the amount of Internet bandwidth needed to keep all of your PCs up-to-date. Delivery Optimization also sends updates and apps from your PC to other PCs on your local network or PCs on the Internet.

How does Delivery Optimization work?

Delivery Optimization works in two ways.

Download updates and apps from other PCs

In addition to downloading updates and apps from Microsoft, Windows will get updates and apps from other PCs that already have them. You can choose which PCs you get these updates from:

PCs on your local network. When Windows downloads an update or app, it will look for other PCs on your local network that have already downloaded the update or app using Delivery Optimization. Windows then downloads parts of the file from those PCs and parts of the file from Microsoft. Windows doesn’t download the entire file from one place. Instead, the download is broken down into smaller parts. Windows uses the fastest, most reliable download source for each part of the file.

PCs on your local network and PCs on the Internet. Windows uses the same process as when getting updates and apps from PCs on your local network, and also looks for PCs on the Internet that can be used as a source to download parts of updates and apps.

Send updates and apps to other PCs

When Delivery Optimization is turned on, your PC sends parts of apps or updates that you’ve downloaded using Delivery Optimization to other PCs on your local network, or on the Internet, depending on your settings.

Delivery Optimization is turned on by default in Windows 10.

How do I turn Delivery Optimization off?

Here’s how:

1. Go to Start , then Settings > Update & security > Windows Update , and then select Advanced options.
2. On the Advanced options page, select Choose how updates are delivered, and then use the toggle to turn Delivery Optimization off. When turned off, you'll still get updates and apps from Windows Update and from the Windows Store.

If you’d just like to stop downloading updates and apps from PCs on the Internet, select PCs on my local network.

Source: Windows Update Delivery Optimization: FAQ

-Dexter Magalang

Office 2016 - Whats New!

There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus

When Microsoft released MS Office 2007 sometime year 2006, most MS Office users were lost with the huge change in the interface as they switched from using the old menus and toolbars with tabs and the ribbon. After Office 2007, comes Office 2010, then Office 2013 with most users not able to catch-up with the changes.

Just before you are able to get used to working with Office 2013 and know every features of it, Microsoft now comes with MS Office 2016 and it is scheduled to be release today (Sept. 22, 2015).

Those who are using Office365 may get notifications already regarding their upgrade options so lets try to have a peek of whats new and interesting with Office 2016.

Real time co-authoring in Word
When you're collaborating on a document, you can see text changes others are making as well as the location of their cursor within the document. Changes are displayed automatically as people use and update the document. This capability will be available when working in documents stored on OneDrive for Business and Office 365 SharePoint sites.

-This is already available in google docs, a great feature to be included in MS Apps.

Tell Me

Tell Me saves you the time you would normally use to look for a specific function within the Ribbon. You can type what you’re looking for in the Tell Me box at the top right corner of the Ribbon in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, and with “word-wheeling”, which enables results as soon as you start typing, every keystroke refines the results so that you can click on what you’re looking for as soon as you see it. For example, when you want to mark your document as confidential, just type “confidential” or “confidential banner” and Tell Me will bring back the “Insert Watermark” command. When you click in the Tell Me box, you'll also see a list of the last five commands you ran from within Tell Me, saving you time getting to the feature you want to use.

-Looks like a widget to me. Will be one of my meds when in Alzheimer mode.

Excel Power Query integration

Microsoft Power Query for Excel, which was a separate downloadable add-in for Excel 2013 and 2010 is now integrated in Excel. Power Query enhances self-service business intelligence (BI) for Excel with an intuitive and consistent experience for discovering, combining, and refining data across a wide variety of sources including relational, structured and semi-structured, OData, Web, Hadoop, Azure Marketplace, and more.

-Lets integrate more add-ins.

Excel forecasting functions

The time series forecasting sheet functions are used to predict future values based on historical data. For example, a monthly timeline with values on the 1st of every month or yearly timeline. For this type of timeline, it’s very useful to aggregate raw detailed data before you apply the forecast, which produces more accurate forecast results as well.

-A crystal ball.

Math input control

Already available in OneNote and Window, math input control is now available in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You can write math equations with a digital pen, a pointing device, or even your finger, and have the ink converted to a “typed” format.

-This has been a problem ever since. We have tons of add ins to do this, finally its included with MS Office.

New chart types

The following new chart types are available. They are particularly good for visualizing financial or hierarchal information and for revealing statistical properties in your data:

• Financial: Waterfall
• Statistical: Histogram, Pareto, Box and Whisker
• Hierarchical: Treemap and Sunburst

Excel data cards

Data cards display rich tabular data for a specific geolocation on mouse hover or selected visual. Users can drill down and surface hidden data during presentation or storytelling. This hidden data may be aggregated data that cannot be shown as an existing visual. For example, a column chart can't show the description for a set of events that occurred at a specific location: such as a list of health violations spanning across a time period at a particular restaurant.

- I thought this is already available with Office 2013.

Use Clutter in Outlook to sort low priority messages

Clutter moves low priority messages out of your Inbox and into their own folder, saving you time when you scan for important messages. Clutter looks at what you've done in the past to determine the messages you’re most likely to ignore. It then moves those messages to a folder in your Inbox called Clutter items. The Clutter items folder will be available regardless of how you access your account. From Outlook desktop, you can access your Clutter folder, configure your clutter experience, and indicate that an individual mail is not clutter.

-Has been in my mail for more than a month but still don't know how to use it.