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Supporting marriage equality at work is the ‘right thing’, says Microsoft, and also good for the bottom line
Following last month’s meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where diversity and inclusion in the workplace was a key issue under discussion, Microsoft has said it wants to share the company ethos that supports the rights of the LGBT community. Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs ...
Microsoft claims we can all take and create stellar snaps with its updated Image Composite Editor (ICE)
Since the inception of digital photography and the ongoing advances in smartphone photographic technology even the most haphazard and ill-framed shot can end up looking like it was shot by a professional. Microsoft has just promised to make the amateur’s snaps even more appealing with its updated ICE 2.0 software, that will use computer vision ...
Microsoft releases first part of preview for Universal Office apps for Windows 10
Microsoft has just released a technical preview for Word, Excel and PowerPoint available on PCs, laptops and tablets, as part of the Windows Insider Program. Users who are already part of the Windows 10 Technical Preview can access the new apps by searching for them in the Windows Store Beta. Microsoft also mentions that the ...
Bing blocking Google? Microsoft’s new Android app could divert Google lovers
Coming straight outta Microsoft’s Garage, a creative nexus in which the company’s hackers, makers, artists, tinkerers, musicians, inventors get together and throw around ideas, is a new Android app that goes by the name of Picturesque Lock Screen. The app basically functions as a time-saving feature to bring up important information when your screen is still ...
Microsoft appeals to developers in announcing Windows 10 will run on Raspberry Pi
Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 OS will run on the Raspberry Pi 2 single board computer, the next generation of the Raspberry PI board whose new specs – a quad-core ARM7 based Broadcom CPU running at 900MHz and 1GB of RAM – will have six times the processing power of the first ...
High praise and a big security ‘Warning’ for Microsoft’s Outlook for iOS
Following last week’s release of Microsoft’s preview version of Outlook for Android and a new version of Outlook for iOS, there have been mostly positive reviews popping up over the last few days, as well as Microsoft’s flattering statement that Outlook for iOS was already ahead of Gmail in the App Store charts. The Verge went ...
Office for Android officially released as Microsoft hopes for equal success with iOS
Microsoft Office for Android tablets is now out of preview, bringing Microsoft’s vision of ‘Office everywhere’ a little closer to fruition. As of today Word, Excel and PowerPoint will be available for downloads for free in the Google Store, Microsoft reported on an official blog. The Redmond company today also announced a new Outlook for ...
Microsoft reveals plan to release new, free version of Business Intelligence service in U.S.
In a Microsoft blog yesterday the Redmond company revealed it’s planning to release a preview of its improved Power BI service, at first to U.S. customers, but the company says to global customers at a later date. Anyone with a business email address can access the cloud-based business analytics service and through any browser or ...
Microsoft’s Surface Hub to change the landscape of the traditional office
It seems that Microsoft is hoping that soon it will be hanging on the wall (or mounted on a stand) of every company conference room, or rather companies with quite a lot of spare cash. With a view to improve collaboration Microsoft has revealed one of its newest creations, a massive 4K resolution (55-84 inch) ...
Why the HoloLens should come with a warning label
The majority of tech critics have been doing adjectival cartwheels over the last week following Microsoft’s debut of Windows Holographic and HoloLens Augmented Reality headset. Those who have tested the product have not just been giving HoloLens the thumbs up, but comparing the product to science fiction, a new world, or as Ars Technica put ...