Lumia is dead – long live the Surface. Microsoft is retiring Nokia’s Lumia brand for good, and with it, everything that belongs to it. The rumors began last month – and they were proven right just days later when Microsoft stopped producing Lumia devices. The Lumia products are dead – …

The Office team at Microsoft has been doing things quite differently lately – various apps from the Office suite are now available for free on various mobile platforms and as UWP apps on Windows 10; while they do not share feature parity with their full-blown Office counterparts, they do come …

Earlier this year, iBall launched two laptops in the CompBook series – CompBook Excelance and CompBook Exemplaire at ₹9,999 and ₹13,999. Today, iBall is adding a 2-in-1 to the CompBook series – the Flip-X5. iBall isn’t a brand you hear of outside the Indian subcontinent – it is, after all, …

VLC can play anything, on anything. The VLC player – initially only available on desktop operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Windows – has been moving into the modern age, with clients for mobile devices and other… things. With Windows 10, VLC decided to build a UWP app; by the …

Technically it turned into its own game a long time ago; CD Projekt – the developers of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – announced that Gwent was going to become a standalone game back at E3 at the Microsoft event in June this year. Starting from October 25th, those chosen …

Microsoft is vast; with over 140,000 employees, Microsoft is constantly brewing new ideas. That is good – a stagnated technology company is no longer a technology company, but a giant bloated machine that does nothing – à la Yahoo. This patent was published just a few days ago and describes …

The Brexit vote has been a political nightmare – it seems it’s turning into a financial one as well. Businesses do not like uncertainty; and nothing about Brexit is certain, except that it’s making people nervous. In a blog post, Microsoft has said that it would be amending its prices …

Come November, if you are still on a Windows Phone 8.1 device, you won’t be receiving any further updates for Skype; Microsoft is bailing the sinking ship. Skype is going through a massive transformation at the moment – unfortunately, the folks still on Windows Phone 8.1 won’t be able to …

Microsoft released this app in a public preview back in September; it seems Microsoft is now ready to peel off that sticker and bring the app to the Windows Store as a full release. The announcement comes via Microsoft SharePoint’s Twitter – not much fuss there. SharePoint is an integral part …

Microsoft has been in the fifth gear lately when it comes to security – the company has been trying to gain the trust of local governments around the world, especially since the American government started losing it. The Cybersecurity Engagement Centre is meant to help Microsoft build deeper collaboration efforts …