Two weeks ago Microsoft accidentally released the minimum specifications for the $300 VR headsets that it’s making with the folks like Acer, Lenovo, Dell, ASUS, etc. At the WinHEC event today, Microsoft officially revealed the minimum specifications required to power these VR and mixed-reality headsets; powered by Windows Holographic, these $300 …
Read More »Windows 10 to add support for eSIM, let you buy data from the Windows Store
Microsoft today announced that Windows 10 would gain support for electronic-SIMs in future updates. eSIM is a fairly new technology – the first GSM phone utilizing the eSIM technology was demoed back in 2015 at the Mobile World Congress. The idea of eSIM is quite simple – instead of having …
Read More »Microsoft demos Windows 10 and x86 apps running on an ARM processor
It’s real! It’s happening! It looks fascinating, and it comes with a great potential; Microsoft today demoed the full Windows 10 Enterprise Edition working on an ARM processor – emulating x86 applications like Photoshop and running PC games like World of Tanks Blitz. Microsoft plans to bring Windows 10 to …
Read More »Microsoft celebrates the holiday season with ‘The Art of Harmony’
It has been a year with its ups and downs – mostly downs – but that shouldn’t make the holiday season any less celebratory, that would, in fact, be counter-productive. Microsoft started its new ‘The Art Of Harmony’ campaign this Monday with a video that puts the spotlight on seven …
Read More »Groove for Xbox One adds support for music videos… again
Microsoft’s Groove service has been trying to fill up the space that Zune left with its demise. The Groove app is pre-installed on every Windows 10 PC – though, not many are aware of its existence on Windows 10. Groove, of course, was earlier known as Xbox Music, and was …
Read More »Enpass password manager adds Cortana integration in the latest update
The popular offline cross-platform password manager, Enpass, has today updated its Windows 10 app with a few new features – the major one being full Cortana support. The Enpass app has had an excellent Windows 10 UWP app for Windows 10 on PC’s as well as Windows 10 Mobile for …
Read More »Xbox Head Phil Spencer says mixed-reality headsets are the ‘final destination’ for VR gaming
VR has finally gained the momentum it has been struggling for the past two decades – it has become the talk of industries everywhere. According to Phil Spencer, however, VR is only half the step – mixed reality is where things are headed to in the long term. Phil expressed …
Read More »Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube combine forces to fight terrorism online
Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are going to build a database of terrorist imagery and terrorist recruitment propaganda that have been removed from their respective services. This database will be shared among the quartet, hoping to curb the terrorist content online. The database will contain “hashes” – digital fingerprint of …
Read More »Microsoft pays $650 for misleadingly upgrading a PC to Windows 10
Windows 10 launched as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8/8.1 users, but it did a bit more than that – it essentially forced you to do it. Microsoft has remained quite unapologetic about its behavior during the dark times – it is, however, hard to forget the stories …
Read More »Microsoft renewed attempt at AI chatbots: meet Microsoft’s Zo
A few months ago, Microsoft surprised the world with Tay, an AI chatbot on Twitter, which could learn about the world by interacting with people on the world-wide-web. The surprise and awe of Tay quickly turned into a horrific display of misguided intelligence, as the bot learned many of the …
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