The holidays are here, and it’s time to look back at the year and think of the next; for Microsoft won’t be releasing any more Insider builds until January of 2017. The news comes from Dona Sarkar, who is – as she says – the Chief Mischief Maker of the …

Amazon is making some big moves in the streaming industry right now – the service just launched in about 240 countries around the world, a big jump from the five countries it was available in just two days ago; though, not all is well – there is some sprinkling of …

The Xbox Insiders are a lucky bunch – not only they get to test the latest and greatest of whatever the Xbox team churns in their labs, but they also get some (very) decent performance upgrades, albeit with a few occasional bugs. Today’s update brings many improvements that have been …

The Vivaldi web browser is not one you hear of every day – it’s not even in the top three browsers by usage; what Vivaldi is, though, is an incredibly well-designed browser with an astonishing amount of options that you can customize at your whim. An interesting fact about Vivaldi: …

Adobe’s Flash gave web developers the freedom to add interactive content to their websites when they usually couldn’t do it – the Flash plugin could play music and videos, something the web standards didn’t support. Today, however, modern browsers with full compatibility with HTML5 can do everything Flash could, and …

Skype has released a new app for Android, and it does something Google couldn’t figure out. Skype’s Mingo app is a brand-new Skype app written from scratch, with support for SMS and traditional voice calls. Skype Mingo is an alpha and remains unreleased – in other words, it’s nowhere near …

Microsoft today launched the Cortana Devices SDK, highlighting its ambitious plan to bring Cortana everywhere on everything – but the Cortana ecosystem doesn’t end with the devices, it only begins there. Making Cortana available on every device imaginable is only the first time; Cortana needs to learn skills that it …

While Amazon made the Echo for its Alexa, and Google made Home for its Assistant, Microsoft hasn’t made in efforts to bring Cortana into the physical realm with a device – and it looks like it doesn’t plan to do that either. Microsoft today announced the Cortana Devices SDK – …

Last week, Microsoft ‘soft-launched’ Zo without making a big fuss about it; today, Microsoft is making a fuss about it: Zo has officially launched, and is now available on Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. As we mentioned one week ago, Microsoft’s previous attempt at a chatbot – Tay – didn’t go …

In early November, Microsoft officially announced Microsoft Teams – Microsoft’s attempt at competing with the dominance of Slack. Microsoft Teams was announced at an Office event, but doesn’t share the Office branding; it’s also developed by the Skype team, but doesn’t share Skype’s branding either. Slack didn’t seem too worried …