Windows 8 gave us the Metro design language, and while that name didn’t stick around for too long, it did set up a foundation for the Modern design language – also known as MDL2 – in Windows 10. MDL2, at the moment, is used all around Windows 10 – but …
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A very long time ago – 2015 – at the very busy Moscone Center in San Francisco during Microsoft’s BUILD conference for developers, John Sheehan gave an incredible presentation about Project Centennial. Today, we know what Project Centennial turned into – it released as Desktop Bridge, and has served quite …
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Along with the 3D display, Apple introduced the Live Photos feature on last year’s flagship. Initially, the feature was available on iPhone 6s and its elder sibling iPhone 6s Plus. But it is now also available on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus. There’s very less probability that you have …
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Windows 10 comes with ads. A whole lot of them and that’s not just the free version. It doesn’t matter if you have upgraded from Windows 8 or Windows 7 or have paid $200 for an original Windows 10: you will still have to put up ads from Windows in …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update is going to feature a whole range of improvements – one of them, although, does not relate to being creative, but is an overhaul and redesign of Windows Defender with a new app built with UWP. Today, Microsoft released a new app on the …
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