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Microsoft Turns To Software To Move Hardware
Microsoft announced two new phones yesterday, the Lumia 640 and the Lumia 640 XL. The inexpensive devices are designed to handle global communications, built with dual-SIM slots and the like. They also included something curious: Free Office 365 for a year. The company currently offers a Surface bundle that includes Office 365, and a cheap HP laptop recently shipped with the same. I confirmed… Read More
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YC-Backed Kickback Offers An Easy Way To Play Minecraft Competitively
Y Combinator-backed Kickback is looking to expand the scope of the e-sports market by building competitive ecosystems around pre-existing games. Its initial release is built upon Minecraft, the adventure toolbox now owned by Microsoft. Microsoft’s Keyboard Obsession
Microsoft has a little problem and it’s time we all admitted it. We have to gather the family in the living room, sit down Microsoft in the comfy chair and have a little heart to heart. Everybody can see it, except Microsoft — and it could be time for an intervention.
It’s the keyboard thing, Microsoft. Enough already. Design your software to take advantage of a touch screen. Read More
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Microsoft’s New Lumia 640 And Lumia 640 XL Ship With Office, Free Skype Calling
Microsoft has officially taken the wraps off two new Lumia smartphones: the 640 and 640 XL. Details of the pair of low-end phones leaked yesterday in advance of today’s unveil, but their real significance lies with the services they are offered with rather than their specs.
That’s because Microsoft is offering a pretty compelling software bundle for free alongside these phones. Read More
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Microsoft Will Offer Windows 10 Upgrade For Mobile Devices Running Windows 8.1
Microsoft has confirmed that it will offer Windows 10 for all mobile devices that currently run its latest Windows 8.1 software. Microsoft’s After-Hours Employee App Project Offers A Slate Of New Software
Microsoft Garage is an initiative at Microsoft that works like an internal accelerator, taking ideas that employees have outside of their ordinary day jobs and turning them into real apps. The first batch broke cover last October, and now there are nine new projects making their official debut today. These include a mobile app that lets software engineers check in on Visual Studio Online… Read More
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Windows 10 Pops Up As A “Green Shoot” Among Microsoft’s Slipping Mobile Market Share
For Microsoft’s mobile strategy, the only direction available is up. Today, IDC reported that Android and iOS controlled 96.3 percent of the mobile market in 2014. That means that Microsoft’s Windows 10 strategy, which will see a single operating system stretch from the smallest to the largest screens, is starting in many ways from scratch. Interestingly, Microsoft actually grew… Read More
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Microsoft Launches Developer Preview SDK And New Features For Microsoft Band
Microsoft is preparing to bring third-party apps to its Microsoft Band wearable platform. The company revealed today that it’s launching a Developer Preview SDK for the wrist-worn device, allowing third-party app makers to start to create apps for it, beyond the select partners, including MapMyFitness, that it already works with. Opening Band to third-party apps means not only making… Read More
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Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Machine Learning Platform
You know all that big data that’s streaming into your company from sensors, customers, social media, Excel spreadsheets, and data sources all over the internet? Microsoft wants to help you process all of it, build APIs and make use of that data in the cloud with machine learning technology.
And to that end, Microsoft officially announced at the Strata Conference today, the general… Read More
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Microsoft’s Office Apps Open Up To Third Parties, Starting With iCloud And Box
Following an earlier integration with Dropbox, Microsoft announced today it’s further opening up its Office software suite to work with other third-party cloud services, starting with an update to its Office iOS applications that will allow access to iCloud and Box. The support is being added by way of “file picker” integration, which takes advantage of the iOS… Read More
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