How to take control of your Windows notifications

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Most of us are used to managing notifications (or trying to) on our smartphones, but Windows can throw up plenty of pings and alerts of its own as well. Some of those will be useful and necessary, but if you're trying to get stuff done, regular interruptions are likely to throw you off track and get in the way. So it's worth exploring the notification controls that Microsoft's operating system offers -- and there are quite a few of them. Spend a few minut...