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Microsoft acquires another app-making start-up: PowerPoint plug-in LiveLoop
The acquisition of LiveLoop by Microsoft has been confirmed for an undisclosed amount, making it the third notable app-specific start-up, after the popular email app Accompli and Android calender app maker Sunrise, Redmond has acquired recently. LiveLoop is a San Francisco-based web service that converts PowerPoint presentations into Web URLs, that can be shared on any device ...
Microsoft to mount a challenge in the tablet marketplace with its unleashing of the Surface 3
A successor to Microsoft’s discontinued Surface 2 tablet is on its way, according to a report in WinBeta. The new Surface will presumably run a full version of Windows 8.1 – updated to Windows 10 when it is officially launched this summer – and might be a formidable foe to Apple Inc.’s iPad and other similarly ...
Microsoft’s new Azure App Service makes building web and mobile apps across all platforms easier
Microsoft today revealed its three-in-one cloud service, Azure App Service, that has bundled Azure Websites, Azure Mobile Services, and Azure BizTalk Services, in an effort to provide developers a one-stop single-service facility in which they can deliver cross-platform, cloud-connected applications at less cost and more convenience. The combination of the three services follows the model ...
Samsung and 11 more manufactures team-up with Microsoft to preinstall apps on Android devices
On Monday Microsoft revealed that it was expanding its partnership with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd to pre-install Microsoft Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote), OneDrive, and Skype, on Samsung’s Android tablets. Adding to that Microsoft also reported that it had forged new partnerships with 11 other Android device makers. While these apps can already ...
Human nature in a virtual world: Living with our Avatars (Part 3)
This is the third entry of a three-part series exploring heightened technological immersion in the near future. Part Two:Virtual friends and real rewards is here. In the previous two parts to this story we looked at the pros and cons relating to how immersed we should become in digital technology. Should we be concerned about constant surveillance, ...
Counterfeit Windows? No problem, says Microsoft, we’ll still upgrade you to windows 10!
In an unprecedented move that aims to push Windows 10 firmly into the Chinese market Microsoft has said that when the new operating system comes out this summer consumers will be able to upgrade even if they are using counterfeit versions of Windows. “Anyone with a qualified device can upgrade to Window 10, including those ...
Microsoft gives more away about Windows 10 and says the new OS is going global in 111 languages this summer
Microsoft’s new, and perhaps last, operating system, Windows 10, will launch this summer in 190 countries across the world in 111 languages, Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows, announced. The statement came during a speech as Microsoft were showing off Windows 10 at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) conference in Shenzhen, China. Windows ...
How Microsoft is giving you much more storage space in Windows 10
Microsoft has revealed how it plans to minimize its footprint with its new operating system Windows 10 by employing new space-saving methods. These methods, which partly consist of file-compression, will save around 1.5 GB of space for a 32-bit machine and 2.6GB of space on a 64-bit machine. Phones running Windows 10 will also use ...
Virtual friends and real rewards: Living with our avatars (Part 2)
This is the second entry of a three-part series exploring heightened technological immersion in the near future. Part One: The Side Effects of Mind Control is here. In 2010 Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games, Distinguished Professor of Entertainment Technology, Carnegie Mellon and former Creative Director of the Disney Virtual Reality Studio, gave what became ...
Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen treats world to first ever live tour of giant sunken WWII Japanese battleship Musashi
One of World War II’s largest and most advanced battleships, Japan’s Musashi, was sunk by U.S. war planes on October 24th, 1944, and was never seen again, not until an eight year search by billionaire philanthropist, Paul Allen, and his team of researchers discovered the leviathan 4,000 feet beneath the waves of the Philippines’ Sibuyan ...