Following the recent ransomware attacks, the Indian gove ment is pressing Microsoft to offer upgrades to Windows 10 at a lower price for the entire country. On Friday, Reuters reported that the Indian gove ment has been in talks with Microsoft India officials since the Wa aCry ransomware attack.

OverDrive has finally updated their Windows app, releasing a UWP app for the service for both phone and PC which allows users borrow ebooks for free from their local library. The service supports both ebooks and audio books, and to join users simply need their library card. The app appears to be a

Today is the last day of Microsoft’s fiscal year, and it looks like the software maker will kick off its new fiscal year with fresh reorganizations. Bloomberg reports that Redmond will be a ouncing a reorganization of its sales department, that’ll be affecting the Worldwide Commercial Business whi

Two months ago details regarding Fitbit’s rumoured smartwatch has leaked via Yahoo Finance. Codenamed Project Higgs, the device, which has been delayed due to issues with making it fully waterproof and improving its GPS ante a, has been pushed back till later this year. Now Bloomberg reports that

Microsoft releases at least one feature update for the Office apps on Android, iOS, and Windows. We are just a few hours away from the first day of July, and Microsoft has already started testing the new July 2017 feature update for the Office apps on Android with users part of the Office Insider p

[embedded content] It looks like Grow Up and Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days are available early through Games with Gold. Both of the titles are free and work on Xbox One so be sure to get them both. We’ve played Grow Home and Grow Up, and both of the games are a lot of fun. They’re like an easier vers

I ordered pizza for a group of friends this week, it was like herding cats. We had a choice between Papa Johns, Domino’s Pizza and Pizza Hut — and while they are all the same, some people feel more strongly about the contents of their pizzas than others. To me, a pizza is a pizza is a pizza, but to

Many weeks ago BioWare Montreal underwent significant restructuring and since then many people have come out and said that Mass Effect: Andromeda’s single-player expansions have been cancelled. According to a report by Kotaku who have significant industry co ections, “Mass Effect: Andromeda will i

Microsoft Ventures has now invested in Make.TV, a leading cloud-based, live video acquisition and management solution. The Make.TV Live Video Cloud helps broadcasters, content rights holders and online publishers to acquire and curate user-generated and professionally produced live video from any s

Microsoft recently shipped a completely revamped on Android and iOS. The company actually started testing the new design and features with users on the Skype Insider program first, and it seems like Microsoft will continue the Skype Insider program to test new features and improvements. The company

Microsoft Teams for Android is getting updated with a couple of new features this mo ing. Microsoft has rolled out a new update to the app on the Google Play Store that brings a couple of new features, including support for third-party cloud storage services. Microsoft actually a ounced this feat

The latest WikiLeaks revelation includes an interesting one revealing one of the CIA’s tricks of the trade. According to the WikiLeaks since 2013 the CIA had a tool called ELSA which would check the identity of the WIFI networks surrounding your laptop and use that to locate your device geographica

Microsoft has now revamped the once mostly empty lower lobby of the Microsoft Theater located at AEG’s L.A. LIVE entertainment and sports district in downtown Los Angeles. The new Microsoft Lounge can be used for multiple purposes even when the Microsoft Theater is not hosting a larger event. It ca

Microsoft yesterday a ounced the preview of email subscriptions for dashboards in the Power BI service. Power BI dashboards provide a 360-degree view of your business by pulling together reports, images, Excel workbooks, and more. With this new feature, users can now can now set up a dashboard sub

This week is a little different from usual. Ve on’s a bit too busy this week, but the ever-knowledgeable Aaron Hall is here in his place. Some of this week’s topics include increased security in the latest Windows Insider build, the flood of Cente ial apps in the Windows Store and Groove’s mini play...

OZO Player SDK enables developers to quickly add VR and mixed reality playback support to apps across all major viewing platforms including Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive (Steam VR), Google Daydream, Google Cardboard (Android and iOS). It supports all standard video, 180° and 360° formats,

Update: Call of Duty: Ghosts is backward compatible as to not force rebuys. A primary business goal of the BC program is to help 360 owners make a transition to Xbox One. One way to do that is to not force rebuys. — Wall of Bill ?? (@wcstillwell) June 29, 2017 Out of all the games that you’d w

Venom, a leading provider of quality gaming accessories a ounced today the Arcade Fight Stick, a brand-new fighting game controller designed for cross-format compatibility, available for use on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Designed to be as at home when played on the ga

[embedded content] Token is a biometric ring that will help eliminate the pin numbers and passwords. It aims to be the one place where all of your digital keys live—credit cards, house keys, website credentials, transit cards, car keys, your access badge, etc. The team behind Token partnered with co

Last year the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) berated Microsoft for the collection of “irrelevant or excessive data” and issues a formal notice against the company. The organisation then had 4 main complaints: Irrelevant or excessive data collectedThe CNIL found that “collecting d