Microsoft’s passion for their new UWP framework is known – they have been bugging 3rd party developers to switch to it since months. Microsoft also has been working on adding features to the new Settings app that is meant to replace the good ole Control Panel. Windows 10 kept the Windows …
Read More »Microsoft Stores in North America now offering Minecraft VR Demos with Oculus Rift
Virtual Reality is something that has been sought for ever since the birth of science fiction. Today we have it – Oculus Rift and HTC Vive present us with an incredible experience… but only if we can afford it. While VR is here; it is incredibly expensive to own a …
Read More »Windows 10 Fast Ring Insiders get Build 14936 for PC and Mobile
Microsoft has released a new build for the Insiders on the Fast Ring of Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. This update comes only a week after Build 14933, which was released only for Windows 10 on PC due to some known issues with the Windows 10 Mobile build. Build …
Read More »XCOM 2 is now out for the Xbox One
XCOM 2 is a turn-based tactical strategy game by Firaxis – the same folks who built the spectacular Civilization series and are working on a new installment for it. The game takes places twenty years after the events in ‘XCOM: Enemy Unknown’ – to avoid spoilers in case you haven’t …
Read More »Study: Xbox owners spend 12 minutes more than PlayStation owners playing games, PC the most popular gaming platform
A new study by a British market research firm – Global Web Index – concludes that Xbox One owners spend more time playing games on their consoles than PlayStation 4 owners. The study as a whole interviews 200,000 internet users across 34 markets and asks a variety of questions that …
Read More »Xbox One and Xbox Beta app on Windows 10 now support Group Messaging
Microsoft has been very busy adding new features to the Xbox platform. Today Microsoft has added Group Messaging to the Xbox beta app for Windows 10 and Xbox One Preview. Group messaging might sound like an essential feature for a social gaming platform, but the folks at Microsoft considered it …
Read More »Microsoft pushes Windows 10 Build 14393.222 to Release Preview Ring
Microsoft has released yet another update for the Release Preview Insiders to play with. On the PC this brings the Preview build to 14393.222; on Windows 10 Mobile it’s one less at 14393.221. The cumulative update comes as KB3194496 and brings a whole lot of fixes with it. Here’s the …
Read More »Moscow abandons Microsoft services as Russia pushes for home-grown tech
Politics at a global scale can get quite complicated on several occasions. All parties paid a cost for Russia’s annexation of Crimea, but Russia has been trying to distance itself from the dependence of the West since then. Moscow City is ditching Microsoft services, and replacing it with home-grown software …
Read More »Microsoft announced Visio for Windows Phone and Android
Office Visio is probably one of those apps that you forget exists in the Office suite. Mostly used for diagrams and charts, an iPad version of it was announced last month. It seems Microsoft wants to expand its Office suite on the various mobile platforms. The Insider preview program for …
Read More »Instagram for Windows Mobile 10 updated with pinch to zoom and more
Instagram released a new app for Windows Mobile 10 in March this year, and today they have updated it with a few new features. The Instagram app for Windows 10 Mobile is essentially a port; the app disregards all design guidelines from Microsoft. However, since it Is a port – …
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