James Farrell, Author at SiliconANGLE

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How Microsoft is giving you much more storage space in Windows 10

By James Farrell Mar 17, 2015

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…

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Virtual friends and real rewards: Living with our avatars (Part 2)

By James Farrell Mar 16, 2015

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…

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Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen treats world to first ever live tour of giant sunken WWII Japanese battleship Musashi

By James Farrell Mar 13, 2015

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…

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Back in class with Microsoft’s free online IT classes through edX

By James Farrell Mar 12, 2015

Microsoft is now offering free online courses through edX Inc, an online learning platform that works with some of the U.S’s largest organizations and educational institutes, such as Harvard, MIT and Berkeley. “Microsoft has…

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Microsoft patches FREAK and Stuxnet bugs for Windows PCs

By James Farrell Mar 11, 2015

One week after Microsoft released a security warning stating that hundreds of millions of Windows users could be at risk from the FREAK flaw, a bug that could allow hackers to intercept communications by…

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How we really want to control personal data: New insight from Microsoft report

By James Farrell Mar 10, 2015

In an attempt to understand what the people want in terms of the future of consumer digital technology Microsoft surveyed 13,000 people from Brazil, Canada,China, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the…

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The side effects of mind control: Living with Avatars (Part One)

By James Farrell Mar 9, 2015

There has been hype for many years concerning world-changing virtual world (VR) technology, but that technology has so far always fallen short of our sci-fi-honed, high expectations, or misgivings. Over the last year, people…

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Microsoft releases Office 2016 Mac Preview

By James Farrell Mar 6, 2015

Microsoft has unwrapped a surprise for Mac users after releasing a preview of Office 2016, available now. Mac users have been waiting sometime for a successor to Office 2011, and the preview, which is…

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Xbox One games coming to Microsoft’s augmented reality headset HoloLens

By James Farrell Mar 5, 2015

At the Games Developer Conference this week Xbox Chief Phil Spencer revealed Microsoft’s plans to bring Xbox One games to the AR headset that was talk of the town at the Windows 10 event…

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Leak: Microsoft’s new web browser Spartan looking good with Cortana

By James Farrell Mar 4, 2015

We already know that Cortana will play a big part in the replacement browser for IE, Spartan, after Microsoft revealed plans for the new browser back in January. Thanks to a recent leak discovered…

James Farrell

How Microsoft is giving you much more storage space in Windows 10

Virtual friends and real rewards: Living with our avatars (Part 2)

Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen treats world to first ever live tour of giant sunken WWII Japanese battleship Musashi

Back in class with Microsoft’s free online IT classes through edX

Microsoft patches FREAK and Stuxnet bugs for Windows PCs

How we really want to control personal data: New insight from Microsoft report

The side effects of mind control: Living with Avatars (Part One)

Microsoft releases Office 2016 Mac Preview

Xbox One games coming to Microsoft’s augmented reality headset HoloLens

Leak: Microsoft’s new web browser Spartan looking good with Cortana

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