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Microsoft gives Edge an update, shows off new default desktop image in two new Windows 10 Builds
At the end of this month Microsoft will officially release Windows 10, but before that happens, Windows Insiders in the Fast ring can see a few more updates to the new OS as of now. At first, Build 10158 was released, which contained a bunch of new features, and then just a day after, Microsoft ...
Microsoft will release Visual Studio 2015 just days before the arrival of Windows 10
It’s all about developers, developers, developers, Microsoft said at its Build conference earlier this year. And with that in mind Microsoft has said that on July 20th, nine days before the official release of Windows 10, it will target developers with the release of Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6. ...
The 3 most terrifying A.I. films of the last 3 years
With some recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, that although relates more to robots performing manual tasks than to sentient machines we break bread with, there seems to be a stir in the air that humankind is on the verge of creating something fantastic, or fantastically destructive. While it wouldn’t be the first time ...
Microsoft’s Sway app comes to iPad and gets updated for iPhone
Microsoft’s presentation app, Sway, released in Preview in 2014, is now available for iPad. The app has also been updated for iPhone, while Microsoft says there will be a Windows 10 version coming out in the summer. In a blog post Microsoft commented on the app’s apparent popularity saying, “We’ve heard your feedback loud and ...
How Microsoft is making millions from the US navy et al. on an obsolete product
You may not have been able to buy Windows XP since 2010, and Microsoft stopped support for it almost this time last year, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft isn’t still cashing in on the popular OS. The U.S. navy has just paid Redmond a handsome $9.1 million for continued support for Windows XP, Office 2003, ...
Naughty Naughty: Samsung disables Windows Updates on some computers
You may not be enthralled at having to restart your computer at certain times due to Windows Updates, but at times it’s just bloody necessary. So when a Windows user got in touch with Microsoft concerning a Windows Update issue on his Samsung laptop a Microsoft MVP investigated the problem. It seems that Samsung hasn’t exactly ...
Feeling confused: Who the hell gets Windows 10 for free?
You would be in your rights for feeling slightly confused about who gets the Windows 10 upgrade for free. Redmond has not only been diffuse concerning the matter of upgrades for folks using counterfeit Windows, but the company has now caused added confusion. While we know for a fact – and this surely is an ...
Cortana will have its very own key on Toshiba’s new line of laptops
Toshiba is betting that the digital assistant Cortana is going to be a big hit when Windows 10 arrives on July 29th, so big that she gets her own key on the company’s new range of Windows 10 ready Satellite laptops. The range will launch with Windows 8.1, but can be updated to Windows 10 ...
Terry Myerson in the driving seat: Shake-up at Microsoft as Satya Nadella restructures senior exec team
As Microsoft’s fiscal year draws to a close the company has announced a reshuffle and bids farewell to some of its big execs, including CEO candidate before Nadella’s arrival, former Nokia head Stephen Elop. Also leaving Redmond will be Kirill Tatarinov, executive vice president of the Microsoft Business Solutions Group; Mark Penn, chief insights officer (and ...
Bedding down with your enemies: Now you can create and edit Microsoft Office documents from Box
In April we announced integration between Dropbox on the web and Microsoft Office Online. Now it seems that Box Inc. is following in the footsteps of one of its closest rivals by doing the same thing. Box reported that that there are more than a billion Word, Excel and PowerPoint files saved in its cloud ...