In December last year, the Cortana team at Microsoft revamped the digital assistant on iOS and Android. The revamped interface was elegant and was pushed out to Android as the announcement went live. iOS, however, saw a delay, as Microsoft wasn’t quite ready to release the update just yet. Microsoft …

At Google I/O in 2015, the Android team came up with the idea of ‘streaming’ apps. It’s quite ingenious really; instead of downloading and installing an entire app, Google would ‘stream’ only the parts of an app that are required. Android apps split these sections as ‘Activities,’ where each ‘page’ …

While Microsoft has released over a dozen builds for Fast Ring Windows Insiders on PC, the Slow Ring Windows Insiders haven’t had much to do. The last release for Windows Insiders on the Slow Ring for PC was Build 14986 in December before Microsoft went on its hiatus. Since then, …

In an announcement that could prove to be a big blow for Intel, Microsoft committed itself to using ARM processors by Qualcomm for its cloud services. This announcement is not only a shining example of the paradigm shift but also has the potential to imperil Intel’s dominance in server technology. …

At the CES 2017 in January, SanDisk revealed its fastest-ever USB flash drive. The ‘SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive’ isn’t the world’s catchiest name, but that doesn’t matter once you look at what it can do. Today, at an event in New Delhi, SanDisk launched the …

It’s a great day for developers who build for Microsoft’s platforms or rely on Microsoft’s development environment. The Redmond giant announced in January that Visual Studio 2017 would release on the 7th of March. It’s now 8th of March, and Microsoft delivered a lot more. Visual Studio 2017 Microsoft’s incredible …

The Russian Federation isn’t willing to make an exception for Microsoft’s professional social network. Last year, in November, a Russian court ordered a ban on LinkedIn because the company refused to abide by Russian laws. The problem is quite a simple one: Russia requires Internet companies to store any and …

Mozilla’s Firefox browser today hit version 52, and a lot is changing. This is the last major release of Firefox with support for Windows XP and Vista. Firefox versions published after this will require Windows 7. Since that marks a significant milestone, Mozilla is making Firefox 52 an Extended Support …

The Windows Insider program helped pour the foundation of today’s Microsoft. The program is open, transparent, allowing anyone to participate, and relies on user feedback significantly. It’s a middle ground between the lock-down of macOS and the open-source of Linux distributions. Since its introduction, it has inspired other Insider programs …

This one is rare, but today we witness it. If you are trying to login to your Microsoft account at the moment, you might be told that your account does not exist or that your password is incorrect. That’s not entirely true. Microsoft seems to be going through a severe …