Microsoft’s digital assistant, Cortana, fell behind Google Assistant and Alexa in 2018. The software giant has been slowly repositioning Cortana as a skill that can run anywhere, rather than a rival to Google, Amazon, or Apple’s assistants. Microsoft now appears to be targeting Cortana at more conversational interactions for workers who are organizing their days. […]
Microsoft’s Edge web browser, released in 2015, hadn’t made much progress by the summer of 2017. Today during the keynote of its Build 2019 developer conference, Microsoft shared additional details regarding Edge including a new Internet Explorer mode. The next version of Edge will come with an Internet Explorer mode, allowing you to run older […]
Sony’s lead architect Mark Cerny revealed details of the PlayStation 5 last Tuesday. We now know it will be powered by AMD’s 7nm third-generation Ryzen CPU (Zen 2), use a custom Radeon Navi graphics GPU, and support ray tracing and 8K resolutions. That all sounds impressive, but Microsoft is said to be going one better. […]
Microsoft has been obsessed with giant touchscreen displays for years and when we moved office we went with these in our meeting rooms. Where everyone can work collaboratively on huge displays mounted on walls. It seems really far out there, but that future is now starting to arrive with the Surface Hub and now the […]
Rumors that Microsoft has been working on a disc-less Xbox One S console have been circulating quite a bit lately, and photos of the machine were leaked just days ago. Now, the reports have been proven true: Microsoft has officially unveiled the all-digital console, and it’s available for pre-order now. In terms of design, there […]
A brand new report signifies that Microsoft is difficult at work creating a pair of true wi-fi earbuds beneath the Surface lineup to rival the most recent Apple AirPods. The true wi-fi earbuds are codenamed Morrisson (probably after The Doors’ well-known frontman) and are tipped to incorporate each noise-cancellation and Microsoft’s voice assistant, Cortana. The […]
This October will mark nine years since Windows Mobile’s initial release. It never came close to challenging Android and iOS, and in 2016 Microsoft said that the platform, which at the time had around 2 percent of the market share, was no longer going to be a focus for the company, spelling the beginning of […]
Microsoft has been on something of a roll since the start of February, dolling out some excellent free games and spoiling Xbox Live Gold subscribers to some absolute corkers, with Mortal Kombat X, Halo Wars, Crackdown 2 and many more to name but a few. For those who don’t know, back at the start of February, Microsoft […]
Microsoft Surface Book 2 in a nutshell, really. It’s a powerful laptop that can turn its hand to pretty much anything you care to think of. Most of the time you’ll be using it as a regular notebook, but you can also detach the screen and use it as a large tablet, you can reverse-dock […]
Microsoft’s upcoming Chromium-powered Edge browser has leaked online. Download links for the browser have been posted to file sharing sites and popular sharing forums. The leaked version appears to be an early copy of what Microsoft is expected to release in public preview soon. Microsoft’s new version of Edge is built on Chromium, and early […]
Microsoft revealed Monday that it’s testing an Xbox game streaming service, currently called Project xCloud. Google stolen the show at this year’s Game Developer Conference with its Stadia cloud gaming reveal, but Microsoft is hard at work on its own service, xCloud, that it’s already testing now. Microsoft representatives from the xCloud team gave us a […]
Good Seamlessly transitions between modes The best and biggest digital drawing board Impeccable build quality Bad All rearward ports Pricey proposition for most The ‘cheapest’ unit comes outfitted with a 6th-generation Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, a 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M GPU and 1TB of storage. Meanwhile, if you want to max […]
Microsoft Flow automates repetitive tasks, allowing you to devote more of your time to important matters. It does this by linking different cloud-based apps, collecting data from them, synchronizing files, sending you notifications, and much more. In Microsoft Flow, automated workflows are simply referred to as “flows.” Currently, Microsoft Flow allows you to link apps […]
Yesterday at the Game Developer Conference, Google pulled back the curtains on their game streaming service, Stadia. The service will be coming later this year and the company is making big promises about 4k, 60FPS, and latency-free gaming. But Google is not the only player in this segment and while many were hoping that the […]
Windows 10 will automatically uninstall Windows updates that cause startup failures due to incompatibility or issues in new software according to a support document published by Microsoft. Windows updates will be automatically removed when Windows detects that it has recovered from a startup failure after all other “automatic recovery attempts have been unsuccessful.” In addition, […]