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Wouldn’t it be cool if you could send text messages from your PC to

people’s phones? You can set that up if you have an Android phone—see
“AutoPlay”. But that’s not what Messaging is.

Note
If that’s your goal, you need to download a special app from your carrier. Verizon, AT&T, T-
Mobile, and Sprint each make a Windows app just for texting from your PC. (Verizon’s app is
called “Message+,” for example. Its app is a mirror of what you see on your phone.)

Messaging is a very simple app for conducting text chats with other people

who have Skype. (Yes, you can, and probably should, use the Skype app for
that purpose; it’s not entirely clear why Microsoft decided to break

Messaging out into a separate program.)

Microsoft Edge

Here’s Microsoft’s built-in browser. See Chapter 9.

Microsoft Solitaire Collection

To the shock of many, Microsoft killed off Solitaire back in Windows 8.
The one, the only—for many people, the most-used app of all. But don’t

panic. Windows 10 comes with a new, improved version of Solitaire—five
different versions, in fact. (There are also links to download Bingo,
Minesweeper, Sudoku, Mahjong, and four others, all free.)

Note

Well, sort of free. Your game-playing experience is interrupted every now and then by 15- and 30-
second video ads—including one that offers a Premium plan, where you pay $10 a year to get rid
of the ads.

Improved not just because their graphics and gameplay are modernized and
great, but also because they save their data as part of your online Microsoft