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Windows 10 Insider’s on the Slow Ring got Build 14965 yesterday; today, the Fast Ring is also getting an update. Interestingly, this build is only releasing for Windows 10 PC’s; perhaps mobile will get an update in a few days – or we might have to wait for the next …

Microsoft has started rolling out Windows 10 Build 14965 to Insiders on the Slow Ring – this build was published last week for the Fast Ring Insiders. The update for Slow Ring is only rolling out to PC, for now. It seems Microsoft is skipping this week’s Fast Ring Insider …

Microsoft’s Project Scorpio was announced earlier this year at E3, and since then has been in the news – mostly speculation – about all the things it would do differently. Interestingly, it’s meant to be a mid-generation upgrade, rather than a brand-new console – it will still be able to …

Bing is receiving an exciting update – the ability to save search results so that you can look them up later, on any of your devices. Microsoft isn’t the first one to think of something like this – but this might be the simplest implementation of it, yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOdjX3ggBc The …

Microsoft’s Connect(); has kicked off – and some major announcements are coming out of it; during the keynote, Nat Friedman – Corporate Vice President, Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft – introduced the Visual Studio Mobile Centre: a set of cloud services to track, build, and manage your mobile apps on …

Microsoft has announced a new version of Visual Studio – but this one is for Mac. Microsoft has not had much presence for developers on Mac – ever; recently, Microsoft did release the Visual Studio Code – a lightweight source editor – for many platforms, including Mac. Visual Studio for …

Microsoft has been going through a shift under Satya Nadella – a more open Microsoft, focusing on providing its services on the most popular ecosystems around; Microsoft has been releasing its apps on iOS and Android, while at the same time integrating Linux into Windows with the Linux Subsystem for …

Microsoft announced the Xbox backward compatibility program for Xbox One in June last year; today it has more than 280 titles from the Xbox 360 era – all thanks to the 3rd party developers willing to extend their support. Yesterday, Major Nelson of the Xbox announced on Twitter that two …

It has been 15 years since the first Xbox was launched by none other than Bill Gates – now, the name Xbox represents a massive gaming community, with a lot of good and some of the bad. The Xbox was the first gaming console produced by Microsoft, released on November …

Windows 10 is not just an operating system – it is the key to a unified ecosystem of platforms that were once separate but are now one thanks to Windows 10. Microsoft introduced UWP with Windows 8 – while the OS failed to take off, UWP continues to be present …