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Getting to the party on time: Microsoft bringing folks together with location finding app ‘People Sense’
Have you ever been that person who missed the party because you didn’t know where everyone was, or you’ve gone out of your mind wondering why your girlfriend is two hours late for your dinner date? This could be a thing of the past for Windows Phone users in the very near future. Shortly after ...
Microsoft adds handwriting feature and OCR to OneNote for iPad
Microsoft has added what it called a “top requested feature” to iPad. The new update means that users can go into handwriting mode and with any stylus of your choosing start to make notes or doodle “to you heart’s content”. There are tons of options available, including 20 different colors to choose from, a range ...
Microsoft axes messaging app ‘Rooms’
Rooms, Microsoft’s Windows Phone app that was launched in 2012, will no longer be supported by the company. The app, which was considered to be an extension of the People hub, was a social app that allowed users to chat, share files, photos and calendars in private groups. Support for the feature will be ended ...
Microsoft reaches milestone in cloud privacy with compliance to ISO 27018
Feeling unshakably confident about our data stored in the cloud is probably a disposition we’ll never quite reach, but Microsoft just made some headway in instilling us with some faith by making its Azure cloud computing platform, the first cloud platform to be certified as compliant with ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 27018. Brad Smith, ...
Feeling more secure? Windows 10 moves beyond passwords with biometrics from Microsoft
In a bid to strengthen cyber-security and address the problem of remembering multiple passwords Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will support FIDO (Fast Identification Online) with an aim to having eye-scanning and fingerprint scanning capabilities on all devices in the future. The new OS will support the newest version of FIDO, FIDO 2.0. FIDO ...
Microsoft and Google’s measures to curtail child pornography searches has been a huge success
After pleas in November 2013 by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron that tech companies do more – as part of their “moral duty” – to prevent internet users from searching for sexual material related to children, the two tech giants Microsoft and Google put new controls on their search engines which has resulted in a massive ...
Respected hedge fund loses faith in Apple and bets on Microsoft
Bridgewater Associates, a huge hedge fund – largest in the world says Institutional Investor – based in Westport, Connecticut, has revealed that it has diminished its holdings in Apple by almost 50 percent, according to its regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This comes at a time when Apple’s shares have gone up by ...
Microsoft patches lingering bug that affects all versions of Windows
Microsoft has announced that it has taken care of a bug that may have been around for some 15 years, and could have put millions of PC users running all version of Windows at risk of giving attackers complete control of their machine. The vulnerability, codenamed Jasburg, which Microsoft says took a year to clean-up, still remains a critical ...
Cloud freebie wars: Microsoft OneDrive giveaway overshadows Google Drive’s free 2 Gigabytes
Microsoft has announced that it is now giving away 100 GB of OneDrive cloud storage for free, for two years. This was announced on the same day that Google let it be known that it was giving away 2 GBs of Google Drive storage, forever. Both freebies come with small stipulations, but nothing to be ...
Microsoft and Samsung end dispute over Android patent-licensing
After Microsoft filed a patent-royalty suit in August last year that alleged that the South Korea-based Samsung had not made Android royalty payments on time resulting in $6.9 million in interest fees, the two companies have settled the issue after months of attempted reconciliation. A joint statement from the two companies read, “Samsung and Microsoft are pleased ...
