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Opera announced that they now have a signed licensing deal with Microsoft for their browser building department in Nokia which means that the Opera Mini will become the default browser for Microsoft’s feature phone product lines and the Asha phones product lines which effects phones in the Series 30+, Series 40 and Asha families. Besides […]

Microsoft announced the availability of its Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio, an extension that brings together the Visual Studio Sample Browser and Bing Code Search extensions to enable developers to find and reuse millions of code snippets. The extension also enables users to find and reuse code sample projects from across the coding community, […]

Microsoft China released Xiaobing in late May, allowing WeChat users to have conversations about how Windows Phone users manage Cortana based on pre-stored data. However, Tencent (WeChat’s parent company) announced in early June that it has blocked the use of Xiaobing to protect users’ security, citing privacy concerns about Xiaobing leaking details of private user […]

One of the hottest buzz words on the technology scene today is what’s known as the internet of things (IoT) to which the premise behind it is that electronic household and workplace appliances, including printers, clocks, cleaning equipment, children’s toys, shop tools and other related appliance, will one day all be internet connected, thus opening […]

Microsoft’s OneNote app, available for free and now including support for handwriting and a new tablet UI, similar to the one used for the iPad. Microsoft calls this a big upgrade, especially  for users of large-format Android devices such as the Galaxy Note phablets and tablets like Google’s Nexus 7. The previous OneNote app for […]

While Microsoft has always been consistent with providing their updates systematically, today was a special case for the Surface Pro 3 so they made a break from the tradition and provided a faster update cycle in order to provide users with faster bug fixes and quicker features releases. Todays update to the Surface Pro 3 […]

Signaling a possible interest by the company in creating vertical-industry tools for the suite, Microsoft has announced the product, called Matter Center for Office 365, Monday, saying it’s in limited preview and available via a beta program to which customers can apply. The company provided few details about how the product works and what features […]

Microsoft is providing a scaled down, proof-of-concept release of Windows which has been designed to work with the Galileo board geared towards targeted do-it-yourself enthusiasts who experiment with electronics. The OS previously worked only on a few Galileo boards sent by Microsoft to select developers but now users who have already purchased Galileo from Intel […]

In June Microsoft announced a new startup accelerator focused on companies who were focusing on developing things related to the Internet of Things, or IoT, this included all types of gadgets, devices, and other software related products leading to what they call, the connected home. Now, we’re getting a closer look at the 10 companies […]

The game – due for release Christmas 2015 – will not be coming to PC or PS4. It’s the follow-up to last year’s Tomb Raider reboot, which was available on multiple platforms. Crystal Dynamics’ head of studio Darrell Gallagher said: “This announcement with Microsoft is one step to help us put Tomb Raider on top […]

Microsoft and American Family Insurance have announced which firms they are backing as part of a home automation start-up accelerator program launched two months ago. During Microsoft’s Global Start-up Day event in San Francisco on June 17, the companies unveiled a new Microsoft Ventures Accelerator at the software giant’s Redmond, Wash., campus. One aim of […]

Microsoft and Akamai, the content delivery network (CDN) provider, announced that they are partnering to help early-stage IT security start-ups in Israel bring their innovations to market by kicking off the country’s first security accelerator. Also lending a hand is Jerusalem Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. The security-focused program is based in the Microsoft […]