According to a newly surfaced report, Microsoft may bring Digital Video Recording (DVR) feature to the Xbox One console in the near future. Apparently, the gaming console from the software giant should be receiving this feature somewhere this year.
Microsoft Office 2016 Public Preview download for Windows is now available. More details on the release and where to download it from, can be found right here.
SmartThings - the popular home automation solution on the iOS platform has just received an update, and now features its very own Apple Watch app. More details can be found here.
Microsoft's Windows 10 is eagerly anticipated for a number of reasons, and while there's a sense that the software giant has something to prove after Windows 8, the Office maker is going above and beyond the call of duty. Allied to the broad spectrum of features and products arriving this year from Microsoft, it has now been revealed that Windows 10's emoji selection includes a middle finger, complete with a variety of skin tones that let you say "go away" in perhaps the simplest and most effective manner.
The Web is awash with cool, automated tools, and Microsoft has added to the pool during its BUILD week by unleashing a site that detects your age from photos. Simple system involves you popping in a picture, letting the software giant's algorithms quickly assess it, and generating a result, which offers a guess at age as well as the gender. It has thrown up some funny results already, and if you want to try it out for yourself, check the specifics after the fold.
During the end of last year, we saw Apple draw in close to Samsung as the world’s largest smartphone maker, where both rivals managed to ship around 74 million devices in the fourth quarter of 2014, with Apple just edging out Samsung. Much to Samsung’s relief, the company has managed to regain its leading position in the first 3 months of 2015, with a catch.
One of the major implementations that Microsoft is making with Windows 10 is to further unify its rather fragmented platform. After Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8, the software giant is touting a system that offers optimal, fully-fledged Windows experiences irrespective of the device being used. Underlining this, the company has just taken the wraps off Continuum for Phones, a Windows 10 for Phones feature that will allow smartphones to morph into desktop PCs when connected to larger displays.
Microsoft has been very, very busy in its preparation for Windows 10. More than just a superficial update, the company is rebuilding a lot of its software components from the ground upwards, including its famed surfing client. Internet Explorer's time passed many years ago, and over the past few months, we've seen tidbits of its successor, which was codenamed Project Spartan. Today, at the software maker's BUILD dev gathering, Project Spartan has been officially named Microsoft Edge, and while you're probably glad to see the back of IE, there are plenty of reasons to instead be more excited about what Spartan has to offer.
Some new screenshots of Windows 10 seem to have leaked online, and the images have some new stories to tell if they are real. We get to see a revamped UI from the last time we saw what Windows 10 could be like, to new 3D Live Tiles.
Microsoft is finally enabling Miracast support on the Xbox One. This means that Microsoft's latest gaming console will not be limited to streaming individual files from a Windows PC anymore, but will now include support for platforms such as Window Phone and Android.
