A new study by a British market research firm – Global Web Index – concludes that Xbox One owners spend more time playing games on their consoles than PlayStation 4 owners. The study as a whole interviews 200,000 internet users across 34 markets and asks a variety of questions that …
Read More »Xbox One and Xbox Beta app on Windows 10 now support Group Messaging
Microsoft has been very busy adding new features to the Xbox platform. Today Microsoft has added Group Messaging to the Xbox beta app for Windows 10 and Xbox One Preview. Group messaging might sound like an essential feature for a social gaming platform, but the folks at Microsoft considered it …
Read More »Microsoft pushes Windows 10 Build 14393.222 to Release Preview Ring
Microsoft has released yet another update for the Release Preview Insiders to play with. On the PC this brings the Preview build to 14393.222; on Windows 10 Mobile it’s one less at 14393.221. The cumulative update comes as KB3194496 and brings a whole lot of fixes with it. Here’s the …
Read More »Moscow abandons Microsoft services as Russia pushes for home-grown tech
Politics at a global scale can get quite complicated on several occasions. All parties paid a cost for Russia’s annexation of Crimea, but Russia has been trying to distance itself from the dependence of the West since then. Moscow City is ditching Microsoft services, and replacing it with home-grown software …
Read More »Microsoft announced Visio for Windows Phone and Android
Office Visio is probably one of those apps that you forget exists in the Office suite. Mostly used for diagrams and charts, an iPad version of it was announced last month. It seems Microsoft wants to expand its Office suite on the various mobile platforms. The Insider preview program for …
Read More »Instagram for Windows Mobile 10 updated with pinch to zoom and more
Instagram released a new app for Windows Mobile 10 in March this year, and today they have updated it with a few new features. The Instagram app for Windows 10 Mobile is essentially a port; the app disregards all design guidelines from Microsoft. However, since it Is a port – …
Read More »Uber will give you a free copy of FIFA 17 for Xbox One, but only if you are lucky enough
In an odd promotion, Uber will be giving away a copy of FIFA 17 to anyone who can get an Uber with a particular promotional code. FIFA 17 is already out now in North America and comes out on 29th for the rest of the world. Uber doesn’t care, however, …
Read More »Office 365 gets improved ‘Advanced Threat Protection’, Threat Intelligence and more
Microsoft introduced ‘Advanced Threat Protection’ last year to Office 365, since then it has been adopted by various enterprise customers. At the Ignite event today, Microsoft has announced a bunch of new security features for a variety of their enterprise software products, including Office 365. New Advanced Threat Protection features …
Read More »Edge browser gets an upgrade with the new Defender Application Guard
The Edge browser was built for Windows 10 from the ground up – it might use the same base as Internet Explorer, but it has built on top of it with advanced features. One such advancement is the upcoming ‘Application Guard’ feature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McP8ZGAInwI Coming to Windows 10 Enterprise edition sometime …
Read More »Adobe is going to deliver its cloud services via Azure, in partnership with Microsoft
The first day of Microsoft’s Ignite event has been quite busy; Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Adobe, in which Adobe will be bringing its Marketing Cloud, Creative Cloud and Document Cloud to Microsoft Azure. This partnership doesn’t just go one way; Microsoft will also be making Adobe Marketing …
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