At the October Surface Event where Microsoft announced the new Surface Book – which by the way, is now available in Australia and New Zealand – and the Surface Studio; the company also revealed some of the things that would be coming with the Windows 10 Creators Update. Microsoft has …
Read More »Skype can now translate landline and mobile calls in real-time
In January of this year, Skype added a feature in its preview build that blew away the minds of almost everyone who used it – the ability to translate live video and audio calls in real-time. The Skype Translator supported eight languages – English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, …
Read More »Dropbox updates its Windows 10 app, now supports Xbox One
The Universal Windows Platform – or UWP, for short – has turned into Microsoft’s go-to app development framework for everything 1st-party; almost every new application from Microsoft is being built in UWP, while the old ones are being ported. There’s even a UWP file explorer in the works; the confidence …
Read More »Lenovo brings its Yoga Book 2-in-1 to India, starts at ₹49,990
Lenovo announced the Yoga Book at IFA earlier in September this year; the Yoga Book is quite unique in what offers – even more unique is how it offers it. The Yoga Book looks like any other 2-in-1 would – until you open it; Lenovo decided to do something new …
Read More »Microsoft to bundle game drivers with games downloaded via Windows Store
Microsoft’s WinHEC event still has a few surprises left for us in the store – especially for the gamers on Windows 10. Microsoft has been working on turning Windows 10 into something a bit more friendly towards gamers – there has been quite a lot of resistance against bringing the …
Read More »Surface Book with Performance Base now available in Australia and New Zealand, more regions coming soon
In the final days of October, at Microsoft’s most-anticipated Surface Event, Panos Panay revealed the Surface Studio – but that wasn’t it; Microsoft unveiled a slight upgrade for the Surface Book as well, albeit with a few problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OsmndtIrY The Surface Book with Performance Base comes with an upgraded NVidia …
Read More »uBlock Origin comes to Microsoft Edge
The lack of extensions on Microsoft Edge have been a sore point ever since its release with the original Windows 10 – but the issue has a bit more nuance than that; it’s not just about the lack of extensions – it’s also about the lack of adblockers. It’s the …
Read More »Microsoft’s Azure cloud helps bring online 100,000 LED streets lights in Jaipur, India
Microsoft’s event in New Delhi today wasn’t very glamourous – the showcase highlighted some of the solutions developed by its partners to help various Indian businesses be more efficient and cause less harmful effects on the environment around them. One of the solutions showcased by Microsoft utilizes the Azure cloud …
Read More »Microsoft showcases how its IoT solutions help the Indian manufacturing businesses
At an event in New Delhi today, Microsoft showcased three different IoT solutions developed using its Azure cloud and other IoT services that are helping Indian manufacturing businesses ‘transform’ into something smarter and more efficient. The era of manufacturing we are in today is often called the fourth industrial revolution …
Read More »Microsoft hikes price for its Office 365 Home subscription in India
Microsoft has started sending emails to the subscribers of Office 365 in India – a price hike is imminent, and it might not be Microsoft’s fault. In the early days of November, the Government of India made a few amendments to how the service tax was to be collected from …
Read More »