Microsoft has finally set up three new data centers in the UK – these are located in Durham, Cardiff and London. As reported by the BBC, the idea was first suggested by Mike Stone – the Chief Information Officer at the Ministry of Defence – two years ago, so it …
Read More »Microsoft’s Personal Shopping Assistant is coming to Edge as an extension
For companies as massive as Microsoft, it can get quite difficult to build a completely new product – that is why such projects are encouraged internally and if success, end up being backed by the full might of the company. This is how Google created Gmail, and how many of …
Read More »Microsoft is building a Slack competitor, and calling it ‘Skype Teams’
Microsoft has been quite busy modernizing its enterprise and business-oriented products lately. The recent LinkedIn purchase was part of this, and while Microsoft did attempt to buy Slack for 8 billion$, it appears those attempts didn’t really turn out to be very successful. Slack has been making waves in quite …
Read More »‘Clubs’, ‘Looking for Group’ and more rolling out to Xbox Preview members
Microsoft has always been focused on adding more value to your gaming experience – the social aspect is a big part of it, and Microsoft has decided they can do better. Xbox Live is getting some new social features that Microsoft says would “bring more choice to how you play …
Read More »Samsung patent reveals smartphone running Android and Windows simultaneously
Companies as massive as Samsung are always on their toes. They are constantly thinking of new ideas – even if they are not possible to implement in the present – and rightfully claiming the patent for themselves. This, however, also has the side effect of releasing these ideas into the …
Read More »Lenovo: Chrome OS is coming to the Yoga Book
Lenovo announced its brand new Yoga Book at IFA 2016 just a few days ago in Berlin, and we already hear more about the plans Lenovo has for it. The Yoga Book is not your average laptop – while it is thin, and light, it also comes with a distinct …
Read More »Microsoft updates Windows 10 to fix the login freeze and PowerShell issues
Microsoft has finally started fixing some of the major issues that were introduced with the recently released Anniversary Update for Windows 10. The August 31st Cumulative Update fixes two of the most critical issues – the so-called login freeze glitch and the missing PowerShell DSC file issue. The login freeze …
Read More »Microsoft might announce the Surface Phone this week at IFA
If rumors are to be believed – Microsoft might just be revealing its Surface Phone during the IFA conference this week in Berlin. According to iTech Post, Microsoft might be introducing the 2nd generation of their smartphones since the purchase and the subsequent restructuring of Nokia a few years ago. …
Read More »EA to stress test ‘Battlefield 1’ Open Beta, also announces an end date
Conducting an open beta for an AAA game is not a new practice – it helps publishers gauge the amount of traffic their servers might get hit by on launch day while giving the developers an opportunity to fix the random bugs and glitches that can appear when their games …
Read More »AMD announces it’s 7th generation Bristol Ridge processors are coming this fall
AMD has revealed that its 7th generation A-series processors – code named Bristol Ridge – are coming to HP and Lenovo desktop systems by the end of 2016. AMD revealed the Bristol Ridge processors back in June at Computex 2016 in Taiwan. These processors utilize the same 28nm Excavator cores …
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