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Features that Xbox Insiders have been enjoying for weeks are finally begiing to roll out today for everyone with Xbox’s April update.Xbox users will now have more video and display choices at their disposal. First up is auto-low latency mode (ALLM). If you’re playing on a TV that supports ALLM, your Xbox will notify your display when you are playing a game...

For the first time in a while, Microsoft has overtaken Google’s market capitalization. As of today, Microsoft’s market capitalization stood at $732 billion beating Google who stood at $731 billion.This is the first time in around 3 years that Microsoft has overtaken Google in terms of market capitalization. Although, this shouldn’t come as a surprise since M...

It’s not just you, Microsoft has confirmed that Azure Active Directory service is down for many users around the world. This issue affects Azure users in Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, however Azure Govement users are not affected from this outage.Users in these regions may experience difficulties when attempting to authenticate into resources which ar...

Nearly a month ago, Mixer aounced that the company was investing in more ways to help streamers monetize their chaels. One way Mixer aims to do th...

While the Xbox One X tends to be marketed towards more serious gamers and not the entire Xbox player base, this doesn’t mean its sales are hurting. During an aual shareholder meeting today,Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella mentioned how the console saw an incredible response over the holiday and how the company plans to pursue the expanding video game industry.“We’re mobilizing to pursue an expansive opportunity in the 100+ billion gaming market,” he said. “This means broadening our approach to how we think about gaming end-to-end. About starting with games and how they’re created and distributed, and how they’re played and viewed.”Specifically referring to the Xbox One X, he said that it’s the...

Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 is definitely an improvement over the Surface Book and Surface Book with performance base. While we don’t know what the broad range of reviews due next month we conclude, we do know that Consumer Reports at the very least w...

Despite the movement towards facial recognition, by the likes of Microsoft’s Windows Hello cameras and Apple’s FaceID, fingerprint sensors still offer the most reliable and convenient biometric authentication, offering not only ease of use but also intentionality ie the user has to take a positive action to unlock their device, vs simply appearing in front of it (or having someone wave it in fron...

AVerMedia Technologies today unveiled the next evolution of the company’s series of premium capture cards, the Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus, better known as the LGP2 Plus. This latest addition to AVerMedia’s robust and diverse family of products is the ultimate tool for content creators, allowing them to enjoy their UHD 4K 60 FPS gameplay without a hint of lag while recording and streaming at 1080p ...

Speaking to Bloomberg in a somewhat wide-ranging interview, Satya Nadella made an interesting statement on the size of the Windows ecosystem.Besides restating his common refrain regarding Microsoft and phones, Nadella also stated that there was now 1 billion Windows users. The number is interesting from the mouth of the CEO of Microsoft, who would of course have a pulse on this important stat. It ...

Speaking to Bloomberg in a somewhat wide-ranging interview, Satya Nadella made an interesting statement on the size of the Windows ecosystem.Besides restating his common refrain regarding Microsoft and phones, Nadella also stated that there was now 1 billion Windows users. The number is interesting from the mouth of the CEO of Microsoft, who would of course have a pulse on this important stat. It ...

Microsoft today aounced that they are appointing Hugh Johnston, vice chairman and CFO of PepsiCo, to its board of directors and to the board’s audit committee. Adding Johnston increases Microsoft’s board to 13 members. Johnston is a 30-year veteran at Pepsico and he is an extremely talented executive with deep finance and general management experience.About Hugh Johnston,Johnston, 56, has served...

Microsoft delivered a surprise new feature to Xbox One Insiders on thePreview Alpha & Beta rings. Those lucky Xbox Oneusers can now purchase a selection of Xbox One peripherals including controllers directly from their console from a new Store feature. The news was delivered by Brad Rossetti from the Xbox Preview Program at Microsoft. Xbox One Insiders – Preview Alpha & Beta users che...

Following the events that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia over the last weekend, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella yesterday sent an email to his employees sharing his thoughts. He highlighted the importance ofdiversity and asked his leaders to create a culture where every person can do their best...

Microsoft,in response to a Consumer Reports report about the Surface and reliability, has peed a blog-post defending the honor of the Surface. While I am a fan of Surface, I’m also a fan of consumer rights over manufacturer feelings. A news headline which reads “Microsoft’s Surface is a reliable ...

In a report issued today, Consumer Reports found that in a Survey of over 90 thousand laptops and tablets carried out over a period of two years, Microsoft Surface owners were likely to run into problems at a rate which was higher than similarly priced competitors like Apple. The firm found “that ...

Microsoft released their quarterly eaings report today and Xbox is as strong as ever. Even though Microsoft hasn’t really pushed out many games this year, the division showed strong figures and growth in key areas. Gaming revenue increased by $44 million or 3%, driven by higher revenue from softw...

Kingdom Hearts III is coming in 2018, at least that’s what was aounced at D23 Expo 2017, but what about the other games in the franchise? Well, director Tetsuya Nomura said that Xbox One versions of the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 and 2.5 ReMix or Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue collection...