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Microsoft’s hive of after-hours creativity, aptly named the Microsoft Garage, has been tinkering with ideas now and releasing the manifestations of those ideas for half a decade. The ‘Garage Geeks’, as Microsoft calls the 10,000 strong crew, come from diverse backgrounds, and …
Microsoft ends Facebook chat and Google chat support for Outlook.com
Yesterday Microsoft sent an email to its Outlook.com customers notifying them that no longer will Facebook and Google chat services be supported. The discontinuation of the services should happen over the next two weeks, it was stated. “Within the next couple of weeks, …
Microsoft’s Band gets cool updates, releases developer SDK preview
Just a few months after the Microsoft Band went on the market the company has released some big updates (the first updates) that puts Microsoft firmly in the race to create one of best wearables out there. The new features will roll-out …
Getting to the party on time: Microsoft bringing folks together with location finding app ‘People Sense’
Have you ever been that person who missed the party because you didn’t know where everyone was, or you’ve gone out of your mind wondering why your girlfriend is two hours late for your dinner date? This could be a thing of …
Microsoft adds handwriting feature and OCR to OneNote for iPad
Microsoft has added what it called a “top requested feature” to iPad. The new update means that users can go into handwriting mode and with any stylus of your choosing start to make notes or doodle “to you heart’s content”. There are …
Microsoft axes messaging app ‘Rooms’
Rooms, Microsoft’s Windows Phone app that was launched in 2012, will no longer be supported by the company. The app, which was considered to be an extension of the People hub, was a social app that allowed users to chat, share files, …
Microsoft reaches milestone in cloud privacy with compliance to ISO 27018
Feeling unshakably confident about our data stored in the cloud is probably a disposition we’ll never quite reach, but Microsoft just made some headway in instilling us with some faith by making its Azure cloud computing platform, the first cloud platform to …
Feeling more secure? Windows 10 moves beyond passwords with biometrics from Microsoft
In a bid to strengthen cyber-security and address the problem of remembering multiple passwords Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will support FIDO (Fast Identification Online) with an aim to having eye-scanning and fingerprint scanning capabilities on all devices in the future. …
Microsoft and Google’s measures to curtail child pornography searches has been a huge success
After pleas in November 2013 by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron that tech companies do more – as part of their “moral duty” – to prevent internet users from searching for sexual material related to children, the two tech giants Microsoft and …
Respected hedge fund loses faith in Apple and bets on Microsoft
Bridgewater Associates, a huge hedge fund – largest in the world says Institutional Investor – based in Westport, Connecticut, has revealed that it has diminished its holdings in Apple by almost 50 percent, according to its regulatory filings with the Securities and …