Minecraft: Education Edition was launched earlier this month – on the 1st – with some great anticipation; by teaching children about real-world, the game helps children learn by experimenting, rather than rote learning. You get planks from wood; you get charcoal if you burn said wood, you must smelt iron …

The upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update is going to feature a whole range of improvements – one of them, although, does not relate to being creative, but is an overhaul and redesign of Windows Defender with a new app built with UWP. Today, Microsoft released a new app on the …

Microsoft announced its plans to expand the PC VR space during the Surface event last month; in the latest Fast Ring Insider Build 14971, Microsoft included the first version of Windows Holographic First Run App – the platform that will power the VR and AR headsets on Windows 10. While …

Quantum Computing is the new frontier of computational research; Microsoft now wants to bring the technology at a point where it is no longer studying it, but engineering it – perfect the quantum computer, to be scaleable. Microsoft Research – Microsoft’s R&D division – have been researching quantum computers for …

For the lucky few people who managed to pre-order the Surface Studio before it sold out – since it was built in limited quantities for the first batch – Microsoft has started informing the buyers that their $3000 All-in-One will be shipped to them starting from Monday, the 21st. The …

Pix the Cat is an arcade puzzle game developed by Pasta Games – a French indie studio – released in 2014 for the PS4 and PS Vita, and then 2015 for PC and Android, the game has received positive reviews since its release – both from the critics and the …

Gigantic is a MOBA-like free-to-play online-multiplayer-only game developed by Motiga – an indie studio; unfortunately for Motiga – game development is expensive, and Microsoft was willing to fund it for them. The Microsoft dollars don’t come for free, though – in exchange for Microsoft’s funds, the game had to become an …

This one is for developers – if you are not a developer, you most probably won’t be able to understand anything this post mentions below. The Toolkit update includes seven new Helpers, one new control, and several updates to existing features and controls. Microsoft says that the focus of this …

In November 2015, Microsoft announced a roadmap for depreciating the SHA-1 hashing algorithm – specifically, the plan to stop accepting SHA-1 TLS certificates by 2017; Microsoft gave website administrators and their users a two-year head start to be prepared for this. The SHA-1 hashing algorithm was published in 1995 – …

Microsoft started bringing the Office client to the web after facing some grave competition from Google – initially known as Office Web Apps, the offering built a good foundation. Microsoft later renamed it to Office Online, and then earlier this year launched Office Online Server – a server, that businesses …