Mojang and Microsoft introduced the Minecraft: Education Edition as an early access trial back in June this year. The goal was to build something that is like Minecraft – except with features and tools on top of it that are built specifically to help students and educators. The Education Edition …
Read More »Here’s how to watch today’s Microsoft Surface event
It is time for the event we have been waiting for: Microsoft’s big New York week is upon us, with the Surface event today and the Office event next week; it’s going to be a busy week. We have some idea about what Microsoft will show us at the event …
Read More »Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring build 14955 for Mobile and PC fixes a lot of bugs
This week’s Insider Fast Ring update isn’t much to look at in terms of features – it is, however, a great treasure of bug fixes; though, there is a new update for the Outlook with a few new features. Today’s event might show us what is coming for Redstone 2. …
Read More »MasterCard’s Masterpass payments service is coming to Microsoft Wallet
Microsoft is getting some support from financial services; Microsoft Wallet is only a few months old, so support is still sketchy – but it’s getting there. MasterCard is soon going to bring Masterpass support within Microsoft Wallet. Raj Dhamodharan, Senior Vice President for Operating Systems and Social Networks at MasterCard, …
Read More »Microsoft kills the Lumia Offers app, as the Lumia dies
Lumia is dead – long live the Surface. Microsoft is retiring Nokia’s Lumia brand for good, and with it, everything that belongs to it. The rumors began last month – and they were proven right just days later when Microsoft stopped producing Lumia devices. The Lumia products are dead – …
Read More »Microsoft updates the Outlook for Windows 10 app with interactive notifications and more
The Office team at Microsoft has been doing things quite differently lately – various apps from the Office suite are now available for free on various mobile platforms and as UWP apps on Windows 10; while they do not share feature parity with their full-blown Office counterparts, they do come …
Read More »iBall launches 2-in-1 CompBook Flip-X5 in India for ₹14,999
Earlier this year, iBall launched two laptops in the CompBook series – CompBook Excelance and CompBook Exemplaire at ₹9,999 and ₹13,999. Today, iBall is adding a 2-in-1 to the CompBook series – the Flip-X5. iBall isn’t a brand you hear of outside the Indian subcontinent – it is, after all, …
Read More »Upcoming VLC update adds better Xbox Controller support and fixes bugs
VLC can play anything, on anything. The VLC player – initially only available on desktop operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Windows – has been moving into the modern age, with clients for mobile devices and other… things. With Windows 10, VLC decided to build a UWP app; by the …
Read More »‘Gwent’ from the Witcher 3 turns into its own game, closed beta from October 25
Technically it turned into its own game a long time ago; CD Projekt – the developers of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – announced that Gwent was going to become a standalone game back at E3 at the Microsoft event in June this year. Starting from October 25th, those chosen …
Read More »Microsoft patent suggests connecting two Surface tablets with a keyboard connector
Microsoft is vast; with over 140,000 employees, Microsoft is constantly brewing new ideas. That is good – a stagnated technology company is no longer a technology company, but a giant bloated machine that does nothing – à la Yahoo. This patent was published just a few days ago and describes …
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