Where Microsoft has been busy hogging the headlines with its strategic shift lately, with Nokia since having foregone its mobile division to the software giant, has been pretty silent on what the future holds for the Finnish company. Akin to how Microsoft revealed its plans for unveiling a Microsoft branded Lumia by teasing us with obscure photos of the Lumia 535, Nokia has just released a photo of a black box via its Twitter account, the details to which will be revealed on the 18th of October, in a day.
The Microsoft Surface Pro 3 is an exceptional hybrid PC with very powerful specs - something that can be easily compared to some of the latest ultrabooks out these days, and the Xbox maker badly wants to make this clear to everyone out there. In its latest bid, Microsoft has compared its potent spec’d device to Apple's MacBook Air, but with a Christmas theme this time around as the holiday shopping season inches near.
If you have a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 handset in your pocket and have been fretting about whether it would receive any more updates then you can rest easy, for Microsoft has confirmed that all Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices will indeed receive updates to Windows 10.
The latest Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9879 for Enterprise x86 and x64 ISO images are now available to download. Here's how you can get them now.
A few weeks back, we finally caught the details of Microsoft's next major version of Windows. Named Windows 10, it was almost immediately rolled out as a Technical Preview available to anybody looking to test out the pre-release software, and in the latest update, build 9879 has just been released.
It's been a while since we had a good security scare, so here it is. According to Microsoft, a good portion of its Windows operating systems are potentially at risk of having someone gain complete control of a machine using what it calls modified packets. The security hole comes due to a flaw that has been found in Microsoft Secure Channel and while it doesn't know of anyone yet who had exploited it, Microsoft had made a patch available that it says will keep us all nice and safe.
The first Microsoft Lumia branded smartphone has been launched, and is called the Microsoft Lumia 535. Microsoft had been working towards pushing out a Lumia-only smartphone without the Nokia branding for quite a while, and we had been teased with quite a few reports on the arrival of this device earlier.
The release of the Xbox One console by Microsoft late last year was significant for gamers eager to get their paws on some new hardware. But, like rival Sony and its PlayStation 4, the original and current configuration of the Xbox One is subject to improvement from both a design and software perspective, and with the one-year anniversary of the third Microsoft console upon us, the Windows maker has added Twitter integration and some UI tweaks, among a number of smaller new features to the fold.
Forbes has just unveiled its annual list of the world's most valuable companies, and perched at the summit of this particular round-up is Apple. The iPhone maker has had an incredible year, shifting record numbers of the just-released iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the first couple of months on sale, and with an estimated valuation of almost $125 billion, Forbes believes Apple's brand is worth double that of Microsoft and almost 2.5 times that of search giant Google.
In a surprising move, Microsoft has just made Office completely free for iPad, iPhone and Android. Microsoft wants users to stick to the Office platform on their mobile devices, and apparently this is the way to achieve that.
















