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Microsoft looking to academics to take HoloLens into the future
Microsoft is looking to the world of academia to try and find out what its augmented reality headset, HoloLens, might best be used for. Redmond announced recently that a total of five $100,000 grants will be awarded, as well as two HoloLens development kits for each recipient, to universities and non-profit researchers that meet the ...
Final edition of Windows 10 will be with PC makers by the end of the week
Microsoft is making history with Windows 10, the operating system that we’ve been told is the last in a long line due to the fact this OS will receive ongoing constant updates. Windows chief Terry Myerson talking about Windows as a service reiterated this last week, saying “we will never be done” concerning upgrades. But ...
The future is now: Four sci-fi writers that predicted the future of tech
Thirty years ago this month the first film in the Back to the Future franchise hit the screens when director Robert Zemeckis sent Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) back to 1955. Time travel, and its myriad implications, is usually difficult to grasp and full of migraine-inflicting paradoxes – the brilliant sci-fi film primer claims to ...
Microsoft and Kyocera make up, agree to cross-licensing deal
Back in March Microsoft and Japanese electronics company Kyocera Corporation came head to head when Microsoft sued the latter for violating seven patents on three of its products: Duraforce, Hydro, and Brigadier Android smartphones. At the time Microsoft asked a Seattle court for a sales injunction of the said phones, stating that Kyocera had infringed ...
Why Sony is still killing it: Microsoft admits Xbox One has got to do better after PS4 Sales Report
Bragging rights go to Sony Inc.’s PlayStation 4, as far as sales are concerned in Europe. We reported recently that the PS4 has a “significant market leadership” across the pond and beyond, even though on the world stage Xbox One is faring well in some countries. Nonetheless, Microsoft is not just a little behind in ...
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, ...
