Japanese site Windows Forest reports that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update has begun rolling out for VAIO Phone Biz and NuAns Neo. VAIO previously delayed the update due to issues with the new Continuum feature in Windows 10. For those of us outside of Japan, VAIO is simply a laptop …
Read More »Microsoft offers 150$ gift card with select Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 models
Microsoft is giving buyers a 150$ gift card as their latest promotion – the caveat: it only applies to certain models of Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, from the Microsoft Store. The Microsoft Store is giving a 150$ gift card to those who purchase a certain model of Surface Book …
Read More »Xbox Scorpio will come with native 4K support: Microsoft
The Xbox team at Microsoft isn’t shy about pointing out how the Xbox Scorpio is going to be better than the PS4 Pro. This time around it’s the General Manager at Microsoft Studios Publishing, Shannon Loftis In an interview with USA Today, Loftis says “any games we’re making that we’re launching in …
Read More »WhatsApp Beta for Windows Phone now lets you mass-share photos and videos
WhatsApp builds apps for various platforms – from Android to Nokia’s Symbian. The one thing they might do better than others though is actually supporting these apps. The WhatsApp Beta on Windows Phone has received an update that might be very useful for those who segregate their friends into various …
Read More »400 employees left in limbo as Skype shuts London office
Skype is one of the biggest software products that came out of Europe – a software so successful; its name became a synonym for ‘video calling.’ The London office was one of the original offices of Skype – despite the headquarters being in Luxemburg. It opened in 2003 – but …
Read More »Microsoft accounts for the highest number of contributors at GitHub
Microsoft has been pushing for change within itself ever since Satya Nadella took the helm of the company. The new CEO has been working hard to make the company more agile. While Microsoft is still a large behemoth not to be reckoned with, it has learned to make its peace …
Read More »Huawei ‘joins the party’ with MateBook as it pokes fun at iPad Pro
Microsoft and Apple are two giants in the tech industry who don’t mind having a quip about each other’s products. It’s quite a healthy marketing campaign, to be fair much better than throwing insults at each other. It looks like Huawei wants to ‘join the party’ now as well – …
Read More »Outlook Web now supports importing files from Facebook and Google Drive
Sharing things over email might not be what the millennials are doing today, but it is still quite relevant. Email is used by millions – and the Outlook team is only trying to make the experience of doing so, better. The Outlook app for iOS and Android already lets you …
Read More »Apps built using the Desktop Bridge now available in the Windows Store
Desktop Bridge – codenamed Project Centennial – is something Microsoft has been working on for a bit more than a year. The purpose is to port a ‘normal’ (note: Win32) application on Windows to a new AppX package and run it inside a UWP framework. A lot of complicated technical …
Read More »Microsoft fires back: Edge still gives better battery life than Chrome
Microsoft started this battle against Chrome last year – so it wouldn’t make sense for them to not fire back when Google claimed about battery life improvements in the new chrome. Microsoft already had made tall claims about the battery life performance with Edge last year and went as far as advertising …
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