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Microsoft to get serious about pushing Always Connected PCs, especially for business
Microsoft is looking to go back to its old role as an alley-oop assisting Center, by providing a bit of digital billboard space with a new section on its → Read More
Microsoft continues Surface / NFL partnership with new ads
Microsoft's recent release of the new Surface Family, Specifically the Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2, have been receiving lots of attention, along with → Read More
Want to know what Microsoft Search is all about? Here's a quick overview
At Microsoft Ignite 2018, Microsoft announced Microsoft Search in Bing, and since then have had an overwhelming interest from companies who are interested in → Read More
No Man's Sky preparing "The Abyss," just in time for Halloween
The Abyss is coming to No Man's Sky, an update to the game which will be available on PS4, Steam and Xbox One arriving next week → Read More
Microsoft to hold latest Connect(); online dev event in December
Microsoft Connect(); Developer event is happening again this year but in December. Last year we saw the latest updates on Azure and Visual Studio and with this conference, we'll see a similar occurrence this year with demos and live coding with experts but will be streaming from Twitch and Mixer. Build the apps of tomorrow, today. Popular Microsoft speakers include Scott Guthrie, Scott… → Read More
Office 2019 servers are now generally available for commercial customers
Office 2019 Servers are now available for commercial customers of Exchange Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2019, SharePoint 2019 and Project Server 2019. → Read More
GitHub suffers hours long outage, coming back online now
Multiple services were involved and a network partition and subsequent database failures were the cause, → Read More
Microsoft and SWIFT are working together to bring cloud native payment solutions to Azure
Microsoft and SWIFT are making new ground at the Sibos 2018, the worlds premier financial services event, to bring a proof of concept to host SWIFT → Read More
How-to start with Microsoft Learn
Microsoft recently announced a new learning platform so you can educate yourself about Azure, PowerApps, Dynamics 365, Flow, PowerBI, with more coming soon to → Read More
Europe's busiest airport turns to Microsoft technologies to look to the future
Heathrow Europe's busiest Airport is about to get an upgrade with a third runway, and Microsoft is assisting with its technology. Around 78 million passengers → Read More
Here's what's new in OneNote for October 2018
The new features list for OneNote will streamline the Mac, Windows 10 and Online versions and bring them more in line with the way OneNote 2016 functions. → Read More
Apple announces October 30th NYC event, new iPads and Macs expected
News just in, Apple has announced a Special Event, for October 30th. This image looks like Simpsons with Marge at the bottom, but expect more artistic flair → Read More
Satya Nadella hauls in a $25 million paycheck for a record fiscal year 2018
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hauled in a massive paycheck for the fiscal year 2018 which was recently revealed in Microsoft's Annual Proxy Statement after a year → Read More
Windows Insiders are Welcomed to Microsoft HQ
Simon Allison is back from the Microsoft Redmond Campus, here is what he had to say..... The Tour of the campus was an Amazing Experience. Some of you asked how → Read More
Swiftkey on Android reportedly to get Windows 10 Cloud Clipboard features
Windows 10 October 2018 Update just arrived with a new feature called the Cloud Clipboard. It's meant to be a search box for all your copy and pasting, though → Read More
Windows XP default wallpaper lives on in Forza Horizon 4 thanks to fan-made homage
Forza Horizon 4 came out this week on Xbox and PC for the majority on October 2nd. Fast paced gaming, lots of new cars, customizations and loot to grab on the → Read More
Edge on Windows 10 October 2018 Update is "the best Edge yet," Microsoft says
After the major announcements from the Surface event, Edge got a new look and a new engine with the October 2018 Update and makes this the best Edge yet, → Read More
Windows Insider team turns Ignite 2018 into a Road Trip, stays out of jail
The Windows Insider Team has come back from Microsoft Ignite held every year in Florida and Two lucky Insiders got invited to join them this year to try → Read More
You can now manage tasks in Outlook.com, and new v5 Microsoft Launcher launches in beta on Android
Microsoft's Surface Event has turned into a something bigger than just a new hardware presentation, with the company announcing several updates for its → Read More
Windows 10 October Update 2018 – It's Done!
The long awaited Windows 10 October Update is finally done! We saw the Fast ring and Slow ring come together in 17763.1 in its final colours two weeks ago. In a → Read More