During an event in South Korea, Microsoft has given us our first glimpse of something that has the potential to be useful for all kinds of applications - a Windows 8.1 PC on a HDMI stick, like the one Intel announced back in January.
Broadly speaking, the Cloud is still a work in progress, but Microsoft, like Google, Apple and a number of other key companies offering their cloud-based services, has been working hard to improve its OneDrive offering. Today signals a big step in the evolution of the software giant’s cloud efforts, with Xbox Music integration permitting users to store and playback a variety of different music formats on multiple devices free of charge.
Microsoft continues to surprise us just when we start believing we've seen it all from the software giant. In a move that has literally left us bamboozled, but extremely optimistic for the company's future, Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users, licensed or not, when it launches this summer. Read on for further information.
With Microsoft already confirming that Windows 10 will be going on sale this summer, the software giant has suggested that Xiaomi's frontrunner Mi 4 - powered by Android - will be able to run the mobile version of the Windows 10 OS very soon. Yes, you read that right, and if you're as surprised as the rest of us here, head over the jump for further information on Microsoft's plans.
Even before now, Windows 10 was shaping up as one heck of an improvement over Windows 8, which has divided opinion at every opportunity since first arriving in 2012. Today, however, the software giant has taken the wraps off one of its most exciting features yet in the form of Windows Hello, a biometric authentication system that will permit a user to sign in securely by facial recognition and fingerprint sensing.
The use of torrents for purpose of file-sharing is a practice that tends to be associated with piracy and copyright theft, which should explain why many of the major names in the software business steer well clear of utilizing peer-to-peer. Now, though, it appears that Microsoft has bitten the bullet, and while the move to embrace p2p is very much a reflection of a more forward-thinking Microsoft, it'll also take a great deal of pressure off the software giant's servers when major mew software version are rolled out.
After a stuttering start, Microsoft's Xbox One appears to be gaining the respectability of gamers in its duel with the Sony PlayStation 4, and today, the March System Update has arrived. Included are a number of tidy features and improvements, such as screenshot support, party chat improvements and configurable tile transparency, so if you're an Xbox One user, check the rest of the details below.
A number of third parties have immediately jumped on the Apple Watch bandwagon by outlining plans to release host of different straps for the wearable. While Apple is offering a swathe of different varieties from the get-go, external manufacturers are also looking to cash in, and even though we're not even at the point of release as yet, the array of options is looking strong.
Here's how you can uninstall or remove uTorrent EpicScale from your Windows PC completely. More details and step-by-step guide can be found right here.
Apple's iOS is considerably more interactive than it used to be thanks to the introduction of Today view widgets, the Control Center, and other such effects. But minor adjustments, like the active icon of the Clock app showing the actual time, also make use of otherwise static, unspectacular necessities. The jailbreak scene is always looking for ways to improve and modify things, though, and if you'd like to replace the default analog clock with a digital one, then, well.. there's a tweak for that!
