Microsoft’s redesigned Office 365 app icons generated a lot of buzz when they were announced late last month. While their rollout to users has yet to be completed, Microsoft has collaborated with the design studio, Tendril, to produce two stylised videos that showcase the modern design aesthetic that the company was aiming for with the […]
The official Twitter app for Windows 10 devices has pushed out an update with several new features today. Most notable among the changes is the new animation that displays when liking a tweet (see above image). Previously, the heart icon turned red when it was tapped but it now shows a small animation of magic […]
Qualcomm officially announced their Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform today during the first day of their Snapdragon Tech Summit. These new Snapdragon 855 chips will feature sub-6 GHz and mmWave support, 4th-generation on-device AI engine, true 4K HDR video capture, cinema-grade photography capabilities, and a 3D Sonic Sensor. Few other technical details were revealed about […]
Microsoft Studios have announced that they will be sunsetting the Age of Empires: Castle Siege video game by May 13th next year. On that date, all online matchmaking will cease to function which will essentially break the game given its online nature. Microsoft Studios has already stopped the sale of Gold, the game’s in-game currency […]
Windows phones running Windows 10 Mobile received an update today that brought the operating system up to OS Build 15254.541. Due to Microsoft winding down their focus on Windows phones, this update didn’t include the addition of any new features or functionality and was instead designed to improve performance, increase security, and fix bugs. Here’s […]
The Windows 10 Mobile and PC digital diary app, Diarium, is currently selling in the Microsoft Store app store with a 75% discount. The app usually retails for $19.99 but is now $4.99 for the next 12 days only. Diarium, as its name suggests, is an app that functions as a diary or journal. It […]
Microsoft was once working on enhanced gestures for early prototypes of the Lumia 950, including answering calls by putting the phone to the ear.
Windows Phone Internals, the popular tool allowing Windows Phone users to root any Lumia phone is now an open source project
The Twitter progressive web app (PWA) updated this week with a host of performance improvements and the ability to tag up to 10 accounts in an attached image (see above image). This update also moved the analytics icon in tweets in the Windows 10 app and began showing the notifications icon in a web browser […]
The Windows 10 version of the Microsoft To-Do app updated today on Windows 10 Mobile smartphones and Windows 10 PCs. This latest update adds the new Planned feature, which had been tested with Insiders recently, and also improves the appearance of content when displayed on a LiveTile with better font size and spacing. The new […]
Microsoft’s Panos Panay recently spoke with The Verge about the company’s Surface Phone which he seemed extremely excited about. “It’s absolutely my baby,” Panay enthused in the interview, being significantly less evasive about the existence of the product than he and many Microsoft employees had been in the past. Despite this confirmation of its existence […]
The feature had been recently tested with Insiders but now Live Tiles are available to all Microsoft To-Do users on Windows 10 PCs and tablets or Windows 10 Mobile smartphones. Live Tiles are a very useful feature that allow an app icon on the Windows 10 Start Menu (or Screen) to update and display information. […]
Welcome back to our Windows 10 news recap, where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Microsoft’s flagship operating system. Wileyfox resumes production of their Pro phone running Windows 10 Mobile In a strange turn of events, Wileyfox has once again begun producing its Pro phone that runs […]
The official Windows 10 Twitter app has updated today with the new (for the PWA version) ability to add and remove other users to lists directly from their profile. This update also adds some better ways to help manage lists that users have already created and fixes several bugs. Here’s the official release notes for […]
The third-party YouTube app, myTube! has updated to Version 3.3.10 on Windows 10 Mobile and PC devices and Xbox One consoles. This latest update to the popular app adds new comment options, improves some UI elements for clarity, adds a transparent header for the True Black and White color schemes, adds greater functionality to Theatre […]
The official Telegram Messenger app has update to Version 3.3 on Windows Phone today, adding many of the changes given to the Desktop version in its update last month. Among the changes made to the app are support for translated documents in the new Telegram Passport feature and better security for Telegram Passport. The official […]
The official Fitbit app updated this week on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile devices and, while the app is still functional on PCs and tablets, it no longer works on Windows phones. In addition to being unable to open on Windows 10 Mobile smartphones, the Fitbit app also seems to be stuck in a […]
The official Windows 10 Twitter app has updated twice in the last week or so and with each update has been the addition of some new features and a variety of bug fixes. The first update, which began rolling out on August 27th, saw the addition of a secondary inbox for DMs from unfollowed users, […]
The official Windows 10 Twitter app updated with a proper Microsoft Store app update download today even though it’s a Progressive Web App (PWA) and doesn’t usually require one. This in-Store update seems to have finally pushed out some of the new functionality that was technically added with the previous Twitter update a week ago […]
As part of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has pushed out an update to Windows phones running the Windows 10 Mobile operating system. Unfortunately, due to the fact that the company is winding down Windows 10 Mobile, no new features were added with this update (KB4346644) and it pretty much consists of only quality of life updates […]