The Windows Defender is getting a revamp; Microsoft has been busy at work re-building the Defender with the new UWP framework. Windows 10 has a lot of improvements, but the Windows Defender has so far sported the same old Windows 7 look; this will change with the Creators Update. The …
Read More »Microsoft details the Xbox Insider Program; four rings and how to join
The Xbox team announced some significant changes to the Xbox Preview Program in November last year; today, the announced changes are being implemented. Microsoft today released the first preview of the Creators Update for Xbox Insiders; of course, this requires Microsoft to detail how the Xbox Insider program works. The …
Read More »Microsoft Flow gets new features and four new premium services
Microsoft has been busy adding services to its IFTTT-like Flow service since its launch; today, it’s time to add some new features – and more services too. Microsoft today announced three new features, updates for the Office 365 and Outlook services, and the addition of Stripe, Informix, DB2, and UserVoice …
Read More »White House to add four ‘Skype seats’ for press briefings starting next week
Donald J. Trump is now the 45th President of the United States of America; he’s been in the office for two days, and he’s already making a few changes at the White House. The White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer today announced that the White House will add four ‘Skype seats’ …
Read More »Microsoft might halt its UK datacentre expansion if post-Brexit taxes too high
UK’s decision to quit the European Union came as a surprise to even the Prime Minister. The country remains divided on the decision, with the repercussions still a mystery; businesses and corporations, however, need to be one step ahead to avoid any potential losses. Microsoft is concerned about what Brexit …
Read More »Norway’s municipalities ditch Windows phones citing lack of cheap devices
Windows 10 Mobile is better than Android and iOS at quite a lot of things, one of them being security; more than a hundred Norwegian municipalities depend on Windows-powered phones for their healthcare services, but that’s changing. A report from Digi.no says that these municipalities are now contemplating switching their …
Read More »Microsoft shows a rewriteable paper in its latest patent
Paper is strange. The thin material produced by compressing pulp from wood and grass is used for everything; packaging, cleaning, and of course, writing, being one of the most common uses. The idea of a paperless world is – for now – amusing, to say the least. The big IT …
Read More »Windows 10 gets a power slider in the latest Insider Fast Ring build
This week’s Insider build for those on the Fast Ring has introduced an interesting feature. The feature is not available to everyone and is certainly not ready for prime-time, but it’s only an experiment per Microsoft; it does, however, reassure us that Microsoft is indeed listening to the Feedback. A …
Read More »Microsoft delays the ‘My People’ feature; will arrive in late 2017
At the Surface event in October of last year, Microsoft showcased some key features of the upcoming Creators Update. The Creators Update is, of course, scheduled for a release sometime in April, but it seems it’s not coming with all the features that were promised. In the latest Insider update …
Read More »Microsoft discontinues the Cache app and service
Microsoft Garage is an incredible incubator that lets its employees be creative and build upon new ideas that the company would have usually ignored. Sometimes these ideas are not good enough, or so good that a mainstream Microsoft product absorbs them. The Cache app and service showed up August of …
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