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While we’re still waiting for the official release date of Windows 10 Microsoft has made public the full list of editions, which should become available this summer in 190 countries across the world. The editions are: Home, Pro, Mobile Pro, Enterprise, Education, …
8 extraordinary things you probably didn’t know about Microsoft’s HoloLens
Arguably Microsoft’s most exciting product in a long time is the company’s augmented reality headset, HoloLens. While we’ve featured some of its many wonders, i.e., making your living room come alive with holographic 3D images, and virtually seeing inside the human body …
Microsoft to spend big on undersea cables to connect data centers and speed-up connections in Europe and Asia-Pacific
In an effort to improve global data delivery, Microsoft has invested in fiber optic subsea cables that will stretch from North America to the UK and Ireland, a deal made with two fiber companies, Hibernia and Aqua Comms. The Hibernia Express Cable, …
Microsoft marching on with its Surface tablets: but what about the Pro Surface 4?
With Microsoft’s Surface 3 tablet collecting some very positive reviews, from us, and over much of the tech media – one writer going as far as to call it “the ultimate”, “superb” tablet – the company’s very affordable ($499 basic, without stylus) …
Microsoft repeats that Windows 10 will be the final version of Windows
There will be no Windows 11, or any other number for that matter, according to Microsoft. While no one can predict the future of technology, as much as no one back in ’78 could have imagined, entirely, the mobile revolution, Microsoft can’t …
A smart move: TV recording features reportedly coming to Xbox One
We’ve just heard about the death of Microsoft’s Windows Media Center, but one of its features, TV recording, will apparently live on taking form in the Xbox One. Gabriel Aul, engineering general manager for the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, stated in …
Battle of the skies: ‘Skype’ is too close to ‘Sky’ says EU court
An EU court has ruled that the public might not be able to tell the difference between ‘Sky’, the name of a British telecommunications company, and ‘Skype’, and so has prevented Microsoft from trademarking the name and the logo. Microsoft has said …
HoloLens: Microsoft’s high stakes bet on the future
We’ve seen, again, how impressive Microsoft’s AR headset is, the question now is, will this apparent bundle of joy and audience wooer turn into profit, or will it turn out to be another fantastic flop, as Google Glass demonstrated could happen, concerning …
Microsoft’s HoloLens dazzles at Build 2015, but cost and release date remain a mystery
Microsoft showed off its augmented reality headset to good effect at Build 2015 in San Francisco, wooing the crowds with demonstrations of how your living room can be turned into a virtual holographic work, and play space, replete with virtual screens paintings …
Build 2015: This is a key moment in Microsoft’s history
After a promising year from Microsoft, with Satya Nadella at the helm steering the company into his ‘cloud-first, mobile-first’ vision of the future, and Windows 10, the OS apparently to right all wrongs, nearing the final cut, Microsoft’s Build developer’s conference in …