Microsoft is starting to share more details on exactly how it imagines apps will run on dual-screen devices like the Surface Duo and Surface Neo. The software giant unveiled both devices back in October, with the smaller Surface Duo running Android and the larger Surface Neo powered by Windows 10X. Now, Microsoft is ... Read More »
Tech giant Microsoft has released a beta version of the updated Cortana app for Windows 10. The new experience features a brand-new chat-based UI that is aimed at giving the user the ability to type or speak natural language queries. The company is testing a new chat-based UI for Cortana on Windows ... Read More »
Microsoft updated its Surface device family this week, with the introduction of the Microsoft Surface Hub 2S. It’s so big it needs wheels, you really don’’t want to ask how much the external battery costs, but it snaps into focus the efforts Microsoft’s hardware team is making with enterprise customers. Microsoft Surface ... Read More »
Anyone can now manually download and install the Windows 10 May 2019 Update using the Windows 10 Media Creation tool which has been found on Microsoft’s servers and is publicly accessible. This tool allows people to create bootable Windows installation media, usually a USB pen drive or DVD, in order to perform ... Read More »
Earlier this month Microsoft open-sourced the Windows Calculator application, putting it on GitHub with an MIT licence. Part of this was to show how the app worked and how the logic was presented in the UI. But the other part was to see what contributions would be made that could be rolled ... Read More »
Right now Microsoft MSFT +1.37% is flourishing. The rejuvenated giant is in the race to be technology’s most valuable company and (quite rightly) there is widespread praise for Satya Nadella’s leadership. But Windows 7 owners are about to learn this new lean and mean Microsoft still knows how to make unpopular decisions… ZDNet reports that, ... Read More »
Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in front of the Cortana logo While Microsoft is arguably best known for being the company behind Windows, its cloud business could soon be a bigger deal in terms of revenue. In a note distributed to clients on Thursday, KeyBanc Capital Markets analysts Brent ... Read More »
Following the discontinuation in 2014, Microsoft has not come out with rollout of security patches and new features for Windows XP. India’s central bank RBI has asked banks to upgrade their ATMs, and uninstall Microsoft Windows XP from all systems by June 2019. The RBI directive, comes four years after Microsoft announced in 2014 ... Read More »
Microsoft called Cortana the world’s most personal digital assistant in 2014. Unique features like person-based reminders and a notebook function patterned after real assistants gave fans high hopes for the assistant. These features, along with references to her highly advanced counterpart from the Halo video game franchise, added to fans’ anticipation of what Cortana ... Read More »
Windows 10 Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft’s big promise with Windows 10 has always been a version of Windows that will run across multiple devices. While we’ve seen Windows 10 power devices like the HoloLens, an Xbox One console, or even phone hardware, Microsoft has often created separate interfaces ... Read More »
