Tips & Tricks: Get you device serial number easily

Ever needed to get your device’s serial number quickly?

Here’s how:

• Open a elevated command-prompt
• Type the following command-line:
  wmic bios get SerialNumber
• And there you go!

Powershell – Getting device driver version

Here’s a quick tip to get a list of device driver version installed:

• Open Powershell (as Administrator)
• Execute the following command:
  Get-WmiObject Win32_PnPSignedDriver | select DeviceName, Manufacturer, DriverVersion

After executing the command, you’lll get something like this, where the third column displays the driver version:

Windows 10 - Presenting "Continuum" mode for hybrid tablet-notebook

Joe Belfiore showed this of on a press conference about Windows 10.
The idea of an operating system that automatically adapts to the device where it's running its one of the major goals with Windows 10.
This feature, that for now has been codenamed "Continuum" brings this idea a little further.
With "Continuum" depending of the device "state" the OS automatically adapts to it.

For example, if you're using Microsoft Surface has a tablet (without a cover) the OS will be presented and adapted to give the user a tablet experience. If the cover it's connects, the user will automatically receive an alert asking if it wants to change to a "desktop experience".
All this on-the-fly.

Take a look on this demo here: