Microsoft is bolstering its Windows Store with another addition soon. The Windows Store in Windows 10 is now home to apps, games, movies, TV and music rental downloads. Perhaps, in an effort to streamline engineering resources as well as delivering ... Read more
With Windows 10 now in the hands of more users, developer related news is beginning to resurface. During Build 2015 this year, Microsoft spent a considerable amount of time going over the benefits of Windows 10 to developers. At the ... Read more
Microsoft’s HoloLens has come quite far in a relatively concentrated amount of time. While the development of HoloLens may have been years in the making, it’s public exposure only amounts to a handful of months. Thanks in part to a ... Read more
Starting next week, Microsoft is starting the migration of accounts to the new and improved Windows Dev Center dashboard. According to the Windows Building Apps Blog, the Windows Dev Center account migration will take place in stages. The first stage starts ... Read more
Microsoft had previously announced that it would be touring the world for developers who couldn’t make it to this year's hotly anticipated Build conference in San Francisco. This tour will be a sort of condensed version of the big event, ... Read more
Microsoft shared a handful of details about the upcoming Windows 10 operating system. As always, the company was a little mum about the availability and launch details except that Windows 10 for desktop is expected to see the light of ... Read more
With Windows 10 officially announced as a free upgrade for PCs and devices for at least the first year of distribution, the news has left many wondering what the future of Windows will be. Windows enthusiasts, doomsday prophets, skittish investors, ... Read more
The information tornado around the potential sell-off Nokia’s HERE Maps solutions may have many losing sight of the hard work the Bing Maps team is putting forward as well. During Microsoft’s Build Conference 2015, Bing Maps took center stage at ... Read more
While the biggest headline surrounding apps in the Windows platform at Build was surrounding iOS and Android, another major announcement was about using code from Win32 applications to make Windows apps. The example Microsoft gave at the keynote was Adobe ... Read more
It’s an exciting time for graphic buffs with the release of DirectX 12 on the horizon. The latest iteration of the Direct X API promises to grant game developers easier access to the full potential of CPUs and greater control ... Read more
Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system isn’t the only thing that’s getting a staggered release. This week, Microsoft Edge team members Sean Lyndersay and Charles Morris sat down for an interview and revealed that the much hyped, new Windows internet browser "Edge" ... Read more
While we had seen hints at changes to the Windows Phone People and Phone apps coming to Windows 10 for phones before, a BUILD 2015 presentation focusing on Windows Phone user data revealed more about how contacts will be handled ... Read more
News, both big and small, continues to filter out of Microsoft's Build conference, which took place this week in San Francisco. According to a post today by Ed Bott over at ZDNet, Microsoft's Windows Media Center, which was once full ... Read more
This week's podcast is our Build Conference special. Build is one of the biggest events of the year for us here so we went a little bit crazy in this week's podcast. If you usually only listen to the audio ... Read more
Build 2015 has come to a close after offering three days of gripping new information on Windows 10, app development, HoloLens (read about our hands on experience here), and much more. Now, the focus is on Microsoft Ignite, an enterprise focused ... Read more
Conference keynotes tend to be a big deal in tech. More often than not, keynotes help to bridge information with the presentation. Typically a keynote helps paraphrase an event with names and faces of brands or companies media reporters and ... Read more
Just a few short months ago, Microsoft took the wraps off their entry into what truly will be a next generation in computing, the HoloLens. While work on the project started some two years ago, Microsoft only started showing off ... Read more
Microsoft's Channel 9 released a video today showing just how easy it is to port popular Android apps over to Windows 10 for phones. Microsoft's Operating Systems Group Program Manager, Agnieszka Girling (who you may remember from her presentation at Microsoft Build), details how ... Read more
Microsoft is now making it easier than ever for app developers to tap into the Microsoft Band. Developers can now download the full SDK to take advantage of added functionality to the SDK preview which was made available back in ... Read more
There is no doubt that the Microsoft HoloLens is a bold new product. It’s not every day that such a ground-breaking and innovative idea comes to market and the Redmond giant has used Build 2015 to show off exactly what ... Read more
During Build 2015 Day 2 keynote earlier today, Microsoft demonstrated a new website located at How-Old.net, which utilized Machine Learning to guess how old you are. So what's the purpose of this demonstration? Microsoft wanted to show off how smarter ... Read more