If you have been thinking of buying a customised Xbox One Controller from the Xbox Design Lab, now would be a good time. The Lab is offering free rubberized grips when you purchase any Xbox Design Lab controller, now through to the July 10. The Xbox Design Lab lets you design your own personal cont

When Wa aCrypt rolled out in April it was already very clear how to protect yourself – fully-patched PCs were not vulnerable at all, as Microsoft had just released a software update designed to specifically address the vulnerability the ransomware was exploiting. When Petya (also called NotPetya)

Microsoft today a ounced eight new data transformation and co ectivity features for Get & Transform that have been requested by many customers. Find the list of new features included in this update below. New transformation features: Add Column by Example. Split Column (by Delimiter/Number of

Microsoft’s brand new Mode Keyboard is now available for purchase from the Microsoft Store…if you are in the United States. The company’s new Mode Keyboard comes with an integrated fingerprint sca er that’s disguised as a normal key on the keyboard. It integrates with Windows Hello, which mean

Update: Forza Motorsport 7, not Project CARS 2 or Gran Turismo Sport won Best Racing Game at E3 2017’s Game Critics Awards. It seems as though the Project CARS 2 developers are very confident in their product. In a recent interview, Slightly Mad Studios’ Andy Tudor said that other racing games, in

It seems as though Ubisoft is developing a variety of games for HoloLens. Beforehand, the company has been associated exclusively with virtual reality and they haven’t taken advantage of the mixed reality space. While games like Eagle Flight and Star Trek: Bridge Crew are a lot of fun, they don’t r

Maxime RF has brought their Enhancer for YouTube extension to the Windows Store for Microsoft Edge. The plugin allows Edge users to customise their YouTube experience with the ability to skip video ads, disable auto-playback (meaning it’s easier to queue up a number of videos in background tabs), a

Steam’s hardware survey report for the month of June is out today. The survey results show continued growth for Windows as a whole, but the only version of the OS that gained market share last month was Windows 10. According to the report, Windows 10 is now being used by 51.23% of gamers — which is

Microsoft is making a massive push into the classroom with Windows 10 S, Office 365 and Microsoft Teams for Education. Microsoft Research is also getting in on the act, developing technology which may end up in the next version Microsoft’s classroom software. In a recent publication, Microsoft Res

Huawei’s next generation MateBook PCs are now available for pre-order in the U.S. on Amazon.com. As the third largest smartphone brand in the world, Huawei is trying to bring its expertise in the fields of mobility, design and engineering to its updated PC lineup. There are three devices in the Mat

Microsoft recently a ounced a new viewing experience for two of the most popular file types (.docx & .pptx) on OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries. This new streamlined viewing experience will enable instant viewing of Word and PowerPoint files. Previously, when you click a Word or Powe

Microsoft Bing has now officially launched personalized Image Feed and Video Feed. To personalize their Image Feed or Video Feed, users has to start selecting the [+] to save results that they like. They can also check back their saves by clicking on “My Saves” in the header. Once they start saving

Microsoft has caught a lot of flak for their data collection practices in Windows 10 and when Windows 10 users upgraded to the Creators Update last Fall they were confronted with a new settings screen where they needed to make choices about how their data was being collected and managed. Not all W

It’s a new month and once again another opportunity to look at the progress of Microsoft’s newest desktop OS in relation to older versions ranging from 8 to 16 years old. As has usually been the case since Microsoft stopped making the OS available for free to Windows 7 users, progress has been dis

Earlier this week, we reported that Samsung was updating the Samsung Flow app to let users it on any Windows 10 PC, while Samsung a ounced the update, it wasn’t made available over the course of the week. Now, the update has been made available for all Windows 10 PCs, allowing users to sync notifi

If you’re using an older version of Skype on Windows, you’d better update today, because Microsoft will be shutting off support to most older Skype versions from today. New users won’t be able to sign in, and older users might be disco ected from being able to co ect their devices. This cut-off i

Microsoft has been slipping fun Easter Eggs into Windows 10’s Insider builds, with the ninja cat meme being only the most obvious manifestation of this trend. Another Reddit user yesterday spotted and posted a new easter egg where Windows error window read “Windows is opening a portal to another di

Microsoft is reviving their Dream.Build.Play developer contest, which last ran from 2007 to 2012, offering prizes ranging from $100,000 to $25,000 for developers who can create compelling UWP games using Microsoft technologies. The contest is open to all developers, working solo or in teams of up t

Microsoft’s Surface line has been known for its daring and i ovative takes on traditional computing formats like the tablet, the all-in-one PC, and the laptop. The Surface team at Redmond have released some amazing products over the past several years. What was once known as the team who introduced

Microsoft a ounced on Friday that the software giant is killing the Windows App Studio. The tool, for those unfamiliar, allowed almost anyone to build a Windows 10 app within minutes. The tool lets users use different data sources such as Facebook, Twitter, and all the other APIs created by the co