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Microsoft today launched the Cortana Devices SDK, highlighting its ambitious plan to bring Cortana everywhere on everything – but the Cortana ecosystem doesn’t end with the devices, it only begins there. Making Cortana available on every device imaginable is only the first time; Cortana needs to learn skills that it …

While Amazon made the Echo for its Alexa, and Google made Home for its Assistant, Microsoft hasn’t made in efforts to bring Cortana into the physical realm with a device – and it looks like it doesn’t plan to do that either. Microsoft today announced the Cortana Devices SDK – …

Last week, Microsoft ‘soft-launched’ Zo without making a big fuss about it; today, Microsoft is making a fuss about it: Zo has officially launched, and is now available on Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. As we mentioned one week ago, Microsoft’s previous attempt at a chatbot – Tay – didn’t go …

In early November, Microsoft officially announced Microsoft Teams – Microsoft’s attempt at competing with the dominance of Slack. Microsoft Teams was announced at an Office event, but doesn’t share the Office branding; it’s also developed by the Skype team, but doesn’t share Skype’s branding either. Slack didn’t seem too worried …

At the October Surface Event where Microsoft announced the new Surface Book – which by the way, is now available in Australia and New Zealand – and the Surface Studio; the company also revealed some of the things that would be coming with the Windows 10 Creators Update. Microsoft has …

In January of this year, Skype added a feature in its preview build that blew away the minds of almost everyone who used it – the ability to translate live video and audio calls in real-time. The Skype Translator supported eight languages – English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, …

The Universal Windows Platform – or UWP, for short – has turned into Microsoft’s go-to app development framework for everything 1st-party; almost every new application from Microsoft is being built in UWP, while the old ones are being ported. There’s even a UWP file explorer in the works; the confidence …

Lenovo announced the Yoga Book at IFA earlier in September this year; the Yoga Book is quite unique in what offers – even more unique is how it offers it. The Yoga Book looks like any other 2-in-1 would – until you open it; Lenovo decided to do something new …

Microsoft’s WinHEC event still has a few surprises left for us in the store – especially for the gamers on Windows 10. Microsoft has been working on turning Windows 10 into something a bit more friendly towards gamers – there has been quite a lot of resistance against bringing the …

In the final days of October, at Microsoft’s most-anticipated Surface Event, Panos Panay revealed the Surface Studio – but that wasn’t it; Microsoft unveiled a slight upgrade for the Surface Book as well, albeit with a few problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OsmndtIrY The Surface Book with Performance Base comes with an upgraded NVidia …