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The Surface brand builds some of the most premium devices you could buy – they are innovative, and built as well as they look; the Surface devices, however, are not perfect and do have problems, more often than not. Microsoft recently started shipping the Surface Studio to those who had …

Microsoft has been working on bringing its applications and services to platforms other than its own – it’s a new more open Microsoft, and none should be left behind; today, Microsoft has released its classic Solitaire Collection on Android and iOS. The game has been a favorite of many over …

When Panos Panay took the stage at the Surface event back in October – he iterated and reiterated the fact that Microsoft is no longer interested in competing with the existing big players; the new Microsoft under Nadella, would rather build new categories of hardware that would make the existing …

HomeHub is an odd name – there have been rumors about a Microsoft hardware product with the same name, which is meant to compete with the Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa. It appears, however, that HomeHub is a name reserved for something else – a feature, akin to the ‘Kids …

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States of America; awarded by the President, it recognizes those who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.” …

AccuWeather has started rolling out an update for its Windows 10 UWP app, bearing the gift of feature parity with the iOS and Android apps. The latest update adds ‘AccUcast’ to the Windows 10 app – the feature lets users of AccuWeather submit their local weather conditions, which would then …

LEGO City Undercover originally released in 2013 as a Nintendo Wii U exclusive – Warner Bros now wants to re-release it for the Xbox One, PC, PS4, and Nintendo’s new and upcoming Switch console. If you are not much into gaming – yes Warner Bros does more than just movies …

Microsoft and Oculus are in a long-running partnership – every Oculus Rift ships with an Xbox One controller, for example; obviously, it’s because the Rift doesn’t have any controllers of its own, but it needs a controller for interaction. It is, however, not a one-way partnership – Microsoft gets something …

Microsoft has been promoting its latest and greatest Edge browser in every way possible – what’s a better way to make people use the browser than adding exclusive features? Starting today, Netflix users will be able to stream content in 4K UHD – but only if they are using Microsoft …

The Windows 10 Creators Update – codenamed Redstone 2 – is coming sometime in early 2017; the work on Redstone 3 has already begun – one of the features planned for it, is the ability to emulate x86 applications on the ARM64 architecture. If the terms we are using here …