Microsoft’s streaming service Mixer has fought an uphill battle to gain as much popularity as its main competitor Twitch. The latter already offers a variety of ways for streamers to monetize their channels, and it looks like Mixer is attempting to do so as well. In an announcement on Mixer’s offici...

[embedded content]Microsoft Garage today announced a new project called “Ink to Code” which will help developers to easily move from prototyping to real development. With Ink to Code, developers can draw wire frame sketches and export them into source code on Visual Studio. It currently supports pro...

Microsoft is finally delivering a feature in Windows 10 Photos app which they demoed at Build developer conference last year. With the latest Photos app update, Microsoft has included thexa0“Choose a Star” feature which will allow you to select someone in the video as the star. Once selected, Photos...

Update 2:xa0Due to issues that some players have encountered, Rare has announced that the Sea of Thieves closed beta will be extended by two days. It will now end on January 31.Update: Sea of Thieve’s closed beta has begun on Xbox One and Windows 10. For instructions on how to install it, click here...

Microsoft’s Edge browser for iOS and Android has recently picked up a small update which only brings the usual bug fixes and performance improvements.Another more important change, however, is that the app is now available in the respective app stores on both iOS and Android in many more regions.Als...

Microsoft recently announced a new simplified experience that will allow enterprise users to easily sign into all their Azure AD-connected applications. Previously, The My Apps portal was the single centralized location for users to launch their Azure AD-connected applications. Now, Microsoft has re...

For Honor may be less than a year old, but it feels like forever since Ubisoft’s medieval fighting game first launched. Much of this is do to its failure to hold a large player base, with many pointing to the game’s lack of dedicated servers as their reason for dropping off. Fortunately Ubisoft stat...

Microsoft Azure is already known for its excellent support system. Microsoft is now making it even better by reducing the price of Azure Standard support. Azure Standard support now costs a fixed $100 USD per month, so forecasted support costs are predictable. They have now reduced the initial respo...

Microsoft has released updates for Office Mobile apps on Windows 10 devices including tablets and phones. This latest update takes the apps to version 17.9001 and bring the followingxa0improvements:WordQuick editing of equations: Word now supports the creation and editing of equationsExcelUpdating P...

As India gears up to celebrate 69th Republic Day tomorrow, Microsoft is ready to help Indians remove the language barrier using AI to enhance the real-time translations. For those who don’t know, India is a diverse nation with over 700 different languages and 22 official languages which sometimes ma...

Larry Hryb has announced another set of games joining the Xbox One backward compatibility program starting today. Though it’s a small list this time compared to previous weeks—only two games—one of them will be free next month through the Games with Gold program.Split/Second, the free game next mont...

It’s rather hard when your biggest success is also your biggest millstone, but for Microsoft the x86 Win32 platform has been both their biggest blessing and biggest curse, leading to their ubiquitous presence in every office and most households around the world, and also leaving them with an insecur...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds may only be in Xbox Game Preview, but it’s still boasting some impressive player numbers. Two weeks ago it passed over 3 million players on Xbox One, and today the developed announced that over 4 million players are now enjoying PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Microsof...

Xbox’sxa0Larry Hryb has revealed which four games will be joining the Games with Gold program in February. It’s not a spectacular month but the list this time is about on par with January’s titles (via Major Nelson).[embedded content]On Xbox One, players will be gettingxa0Shadow Warrior for free the...

Firefox has been hailed for making one of the best PC browsers, and with its Quantum update last year, it took a leap in both UI and UX.Also with that update, Mozilla added a pretty useful screenshot tool for users who take screenshots of web pages.Now, while Windows comes with its own myriad of way...

Google is in the process of rolling out a new update to their Chrome browser, taking it to version 64.The update brings along mitigation for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and also a number of useful new features.Starting with the new features, the update will deliver an improved pop-up bl...

Microsoft offers many tools to clean-install your Windows PC and clean it of junkware. With the Windows Media Creation Tool, it’s easy to download and install a fresh build on Windows on your current hardware supposing you have access to an exte al media drive. In the rare cases where you don’t have...

Samsung has just confirmed the launch date of the most anticipated phone of the first half of 2018.In the teaser tweet, Samsung announced an Unpacked event for the 25th February, which should be just before MWC 2018.The tweet teases camera improvements to the Samsung Galaxy S9, which is rumoured to ...

Over the last two years, we have been seeing a surprising market open up of first party premium Bluetooth headphones from companies such as Apple, Samsung and Google. It seems Microsoft may be looking to get into the same game, if a recently published patent application is anything to go by.The pate...

Unlike other Surface devices, Surface Laptop comes pre-installed with Windows 10 S OS,xa0a specific configuration of Windows 10 Pro that’s streamlined for security and performance. It can only run apps in the Windows Store. However, Microsoft at that time said that customers can upgrade to Windows 1...