Windows 10 Build 16215 has brought a very large number of improvements to text input on Windows. The improvements cover both software keyboards, hardware keyboards and even voice dictation. Leaked earlier, the new build brings a new touch keyboard on Desktop. The new keyboard brings: Enhanced Text

If you’ve been waiting for a low cost, but beefy gaming laptop, PC manufacturer Dell has just the deal for you. Dell’s New Inspiron 5000 Gaming Laptop goes for only $799, with $50 instant savings, bringing the price down to just $749.99. Couple that with coupon code “TENOFF”, and you’ll get an addi

Microsoft has just released a new update for Office apps on Windows Mobile to those part of the Office Insiders program. The current Insider Slow version is 17.8269, which is a preview of the June 2017 feature update. It includes a couple of new features. Read about them below. Comments, anyone? (P

Microsoft last night released a major Windows 10 update for Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring. This build includes new Action Center, several new features in Edge, improvements for soft keyboard and handwriting, Cortana improvements and more. Another small but important feature included in Windows

Microsoft started rolling out the new OneNote for Windows 10 to Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring last week. It is a major update with all new look, and improvements in several areas. Researcher is a brand new feature for OneNote that is rolling out to Insiders on version 17.8269.5756 from today. R

Microsoft a ounced the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made virtual machine (VM) image in the Azure Marketplace last year. Working with Esdenera, Microsoft has now brought OpenBSD 6.1 support on Azure. Also, Esdenera’s firewall product based on OpenBSD is now available from Azure Marketpla

At WinHEC last year, Qualcomm and Microsoft first a ounced that they are partnering to bring full Windows 10 support to Qualcomm’s ARM based processors. At Computex 2017 last month, Qualcomm a ounced partnerships with ASUS, HP, and Lenovo to bring ARM-based Windows PCs to the market. Qualcomm’s Sn

Microsoft yesterday released a new library for data scientists to be more productive on Apache Spark. The Microsoft Machine Lea ing library will increase the rate of experimentation, and leverage cutting-edge machine lea ing techniques on very large datasets. It provides simplified consistent API

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Microsoft has a ounced their intention to purchase Hexadite, a company delivering agentless, automatic incident investigation and remediation solutions. Hexadite uses artificial intelligence to investigate security alerts and remediate threats, allowing IT teams to resolving incidents in minutes

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 wasn’t the only Surface device to receive a firmware update this mo ing. The Surface Studio also received one from Redmond, with devices on the Creators update getting a small firmware boost. It’s not entirely clear what’s new in this software update as the firm didn’t de

This June is LGBT Pride Month once more, so Microsoft is celebrating LGBT around the world with a pride month collection (albeit one which appears to be localised to the USA) Microsoft is offering LGBT classics such as Heath Ledger’s Brokeback Mountain, Blue is the warmest colour, and Milk among ot

Disqus has closed their open beta for the Disqus UWP app, with the listing now pointing to the official version of the app, which has also seen a big update to version 4.2.0. The update brings support for Disqus’s new moderation features, which includes Shadow Ba ing and Timeouts. Moderators will

Microsoft’s Windows 10 previously shipped with a feature known as WiFi Sense. WiFi Sense — as all Windows Phone fans would know — first debuted on Windows Phone 8.1 as a way to reduce friction between accessing WiFi on your phone. Windows phone users would automatically co ect to Microsoft sancti

We recently reported that Microsoft is set to bring the WordFlow keyboard from Windows Phone to Windows 10 PCs and tablets. Some files for the new keyboard were spotted in an inte al build of Windows 10 that was accidentally released by Microsoft, too. And now, a new GIF of the WordFlow keyboard i

Recently, Ars Technica put out a study discussing how millions of Xbox Live users used their consoles. One surprising claim was that backward compatibility was hardly used. However, it appears that the outlet forgot to take into account various confounding variables and their figures couldn’t be fu

Microsoft has re-organized their cloud, artificial intelligence and data platform business units to sharpen their focus on emerging technologies. A new Cloud AI Platform organisation led by Corporate Vice President Joseph Sirosh has been created, which will oversee Azure Search, Azure Machine Lear

Yesterday, Microsoft said that virtual reality won’t be part of their E3 2017 press conference. However, a few days beforehand, they filed a trademark for a service called Direct Reality which is related to gaming. According to the trademark filing, it covers computer game software for holographic

The PC market is moving increasingly away from the stodgy desktop PC, first to thin and light laptop form factors and now also similar thin and attractive All-in-One PCs such as the Dell Inspiron 27 above. Digitimes Research reports that 12.18 million All-in-One PCs were sold in 2016, and while thi

If you used Skype for Windows 10 Mobile to replace your SMS app, there’s a good chance you were disappointed tat the apps inability to properly process gifs. While the Windows 10 Mobile Messaging app would display and process GIFs normally as the looping pictures they are, the Skype app for Windows