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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 …
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 …
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 …
What we know about Office for Windows 10, and what we don’t know about Office 2016
Following Microsoft’s Windows preview event for consumers Julia White, general manager for the Office Product Management team, gave a little bit more away in an Office blog post on Thursday as to what we can expect from the new Office for Windows. …
The final OS? Microsoft Windows 10 preview impresses
At the Windows 10 consumer preview event yesterday (the full presentation can be seen here), Microsoft’s Operating System Group chief Terry Myerson announced that people running Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 on their devices will receive the upgrade to …
Leave those kids alone! Microsoft and Apple sign student privacy pledge, but why did it take Google so long?
Following President Obama’s endorsement of a Student Privacy Pledge last week Google Inc. has now joined other tech giants Microsoft and Apple Inc., as well as a long list (91 at time of writing) of other companies, in signing the pledge. A …
Microsoft survey reveals large disparities in how people living in developed and developing nations regard the internet, except on privacy issues
A recent Microsoft survey of internet users from developed (USA, France, Germany, Japan and South Korea) and developing nations (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia) revealed that on the whole most people are optimistic about the affects technology is having on the world, …
Xbox One drops price again, annoys early January buyers
There must be a good few Xbox One buyers out there feeling a little peeved at the moment after purchasing their console early in January when the Redmond company had decided to bring the price back up from previous holiday season reductions. …
Microsoft seeks tight-lipped testers for pre-release of Skype for iPhone
Microsoft is presently looking for select, “enthusiastic Skype users” to give feedback in a testing program for Skype for iOS. Testers must be 18 or over and have a valid email address, as well as a Microsoft account or Skype account. The …
Microsoft and PayPal hook up to make devices point-of-sale readers
Technology relating to credit card processing via smartphones has become very popular lately, and the market for point-of-sale devices is stiff with competition. Microsoft has now jumped on the point-of-sale bandwagon in a bid to outmarch other tech giants such as Amazon and …