It can sometimes be a logistical nightmare to introduce someone not very tech-savvy to online services such as Skype; creating an account – while not very difficult – can be a challenge, if you are not there to help them in person. Microsoft announced a new feature for exactly this …

Mojang announced “The Exploration Update” back at MINECON in September this year, and players have been able to see the progress up to this point with the Minecraft snapshot updates. Today, every vanilla Minecraft player will be able to experience the new update – Minecraft version 1.11 is now rolling …

Some of the biggest technology companies around the world have been working hard on making their infrastructure less toxic to the environment – running these massive data centers requires a lot of power, which in turn creates greenhouse emissions. Microsoft has today announced their largest wind energy purchase till date …

Microsoft’s HoloLens have found its place in a lot of places you wouldn’t expect it to be – The Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, is a place you should probably be expecting it – after all, museums tend to be extravagant about their exhibits. That’s not a bad thing at …

The Surface Table is where it all began. The Surface brand wasn’t always meant to be; it was initially, only one product – the Surface. Surface was just a touchscreen set up to be a table – a table that did things no other table could; it was, however, more …

Microsoft has announced a new version of Visual Studio – but this one is for Mac. Microsoft has not had much presence for developers on Mac – ever; recently, Microsoft did release the Visual Studio Code – a lightweight source editor – for many platforms, including Mac. Visual Studio for …

The maker of one of the most popular antiviruses available for Windows – Kaspersky Lab – has accused Microsoft of anticompetitive practices, by bundling Windows Defender with Windows. The founder of Kaspersky Lab and Russian billionaire developer, Eugene Kaspersky, has filed complaints against Microsoft’s anticompetitive practices in the EU and …

Microsoft is expanding the Office ecosystem – this time, in partnership with Google; Microsoft is working on bringing the Office for Android apps to Chrome OS. The partnership comes after Google announced that the Play Store would be coming to Chrome OS devices – and therefore, most, if not all, …

Russia hasn’t been very fond of western technology companies in the recent years – Microsoft has been suffering the blow of America’s foreign policy actions since the past few months. LinkedIn, now owned by Microsoft, is going through the same; a law in Russia requires every technology company to store …

The Microsoft Garage Lab exists to help turn random projects by Microsoft employees into a product; this helps the employees by letting them be creative at their job while giving Microsoft opportunities to build something extraordinary. The latest to come out of Microsoft Garage is Colour Binoculars – an app …