Tag: Microsoft

New Microsoft adapter lets Xbox One’s Kinect play nice with PCs

Xbox One owners will be able to attach their Kinect motion sensors to Windows PCs and tablets thanks to a new adapter introduced by...

Windows 10 Beta Hits 1 Million Users in Two Weeks

Microsoft announced this morning that it crossed the 1 million tester mark for the technical preview of its Windows 10 operating system. I had...

Windows 9 will be free to Windows 8 users; Microsoft Indonesian president says

Yes, you've heard right. According to a recent article from an Indonesia news website "Detik.com," the Windows Indonesian president Andreas Diantoro said, rather confirmed,...

Microsoft And Dell Sign Patent Royalty Agreement For Google’s OS

Today Dell and Microsoft announced that they have signed an agreement relating to intellectual property, which will see the two companies “license each company’s...

Microsoft deal delivers ‘free’ 100GB of OneDrive storage

If you're the type of person who can never have too much cloud storage, Microsoft just added a nice deal: 100GB of OneDrive storage...

Microsoft pleads with customers to ditch Windows XP and Office 2003

Microsoft has again painted a grim picture for customers who remain on Windows XP and Office 2003 after it ends support for the old...

Windows XP gained market share in January (or did it?)

Microsoft is almost ready to put Windows XP out to pasture, but the popular operating system refuses to die. The latest worldwide numbers from...

Bill Gates may be on his way Out of Microsoft; Satya Nadella to be named Microsoft CEO

Microsoft’s cloud chief, Satya Nadella, will lead the company as its next chief executive, according to a report from Bloomberg. Microsoft’s board is “preparing to...

Microsoft’s Latest Windows Phone Update Sees Paced Uptake

This weekend AdDuplex, an advertising platform for Windows applications, announced that according to its tracked data, Windows Phone Update 3 is now installed on...

Microsoft to Improve Metro Apps in Windows 8.1

Yesterday Paul Thurrott enumerated a number of tweaks that will appear in the upcoming Windows 8.1 update. Screenshots from WZor confirm a few of Paul’s earlier...

GoDaddy Partners with Microsoft to offer Office 365 to small businesses

Microsoft  has partnered with a domain name and hosting company GoDaddy to offer Office 365  as the exclusive business-class email and productivity tools service for GoDaddy’s small...

Apple & Microsoft-Backed Rockstar Consortium Battles Google and Samsung Over 7 Nortel Patents

Well, at the moment, it does look like a 'never ending' war between this two parties. "The Rockstar consortium is an organization backed by...