[embedded content] Build 2016 Day 1 keynote happened yesterday in which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows and Devices Group, talked to thousands of developers regarding the future of developing intelligent apps across various platforms. Nadella showca...

WhatsApp today updated their app on Windows Phone platform to v2.16.2. This seems to be minor update with no change log. Previous update for WhatsApp added support for video trimming and more. Find the details below. This update lets you trim a video before you send it. Recently, WhatsApp also added...

Microsoft revealed a nice new feature for Continuum for phones that is coming with Windows 10 A iversary Update: support for the Xbox One controller. In Windows 10 A iversary Update, users will be able to use their Xbox One controller to play Universal Windows Platform games on a monitor when co ect...

While most of BUILD 2016 has been focused on new features and developments for Windows and other Microsoft services, OEMs were also on hand showing off some devices, like the HP Elite X3 and the Acer Jade Primo. Among these devices on display was a tablet with an interesting take on gaming. The Exer...

At Build 2016 today, Microsoft a ounced that the company is bringing native Bush on Ubuntu ru ing on Windows 10. This means developers can use all the things they love about Bash on Ubuntu right on Windows 10 with the upcoming A iversary Update for the OS. As this is a native integration, Microsoft ...

Today at Build 2016, Microsoft quickly went over its Project Cente ial bridge for Windows Developers. The bridge will allow developers to bring their Classic Windows Apps to the Windows Store and update them via the Store, too. At a Build 2016 session today, Microsoft dived deep into more details ab...

Microsoft unveiled the next major update for Windows 10 today at Build 2016. The upcoming update for Windows 10 is being named as the “A iversary Update”. Today at Build 2016, Microsoft showed off just some of the upcoming features such as improved security for Microsoft Edge, extensions support in ...

Microsoft today started shipping the HoloLens development kit pre-orders. Following the launch, Microsoft has updated the Windows Device Recovery tool with support for the HoloLens and the HoloLens Clicker. If you happen to own a HoloLens, you will now be able to reset your HoloLens with the Device ...

Last week, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14295 for both PC and Mobile to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. Today, Microsoft released the corresponding SDK v10.0.14295.1000 for developers. To start developing on the Windows 10 A iversary Update, install the latest Windows 10 fo...

There were not a lot of Windows Phones at BUILD 2016, not in the presentation or in the hands of Microsoft staff or attendees. Am I the only one using a Windows phone at the #build2016? So many Android/iphone… — Rudy Huyn (@RudyHuyn) March 30, 2016 It tu s out there is little point in waiting for ea...

[embedded content] With the Windows 10 A iversary update, Microsoft is allowing game developers have access to a fully open ecosystem with the Universal Windows Platform, making it easy to bring the games to both Xbox One and other Windows 10 devices. Go behind the scenes with Tu 10 in their develop...

At BUILD 2016 Microsoft demonstrated a feature for Continuum for phones which I have long been advocating. Continuum for phones is great, but no-one is going to carry around an extra keyboard and screen, and unco ected and unused keyboard and screens are pretty rare to find, even in hotels. What is ...

In addition to the developer related features like Windows Ink APIs, Windows Hello APIs and updated Cortana APIs which were a ounced during Build keynote today, Microsoft has also made some more improvements based on the feedback from developers. The following are the major improvements that will be...

Back in July last year, we reported about Object Theory, a software development agency focused on the creation of mixed reality applications for Microsoft HoloLens. Object Theory is founded by Michael Hoffman, a Principal Engineering Lead from the Microsoft HoloLens Studios team and Raven Zachary, a...

In order to showcase the power of Microsoft Cognitive Services which was a ounced during Build 2016 conference today, Microsoft today launched a new service called CaptionBot. CaptionBot uses Computer Vision and Natural Language to describe contents of images. It can understand the content of any im...

[embedded content] During the Build 2016 Day 1 keynote, Microsoft played several videos to promote Windows 10, HoloLens and more. But the above video received the most appreciation from the audience. This video is about the story of Saqib, a core Microsoft developer living in London, who lost his vi...

Microsoft just a ounced the latest A iversary SDK for the Windows Developers. There are many new features that will be coming with the new SDK. Below is the run-through of some of the new improvements Microsoft is bringing for the developers. Co ected Devices: We are bringing new ways to co ect to, ...

Speaking at BUILD Satya Nadella has a ounced that Skype has more than 300 million monthly active users. This makes it a pretty large communication network, but makes it much smaller than WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger for example, which can both make VOIP calls and have more than a billion users. O...

Microsoft has a ounced the preview of the Skype Bot SDK which will allow developers to create their own bots for Skype which will be capable of having conversations and video chats with users. These bots will interact with the user through Skype, Cortana and Bing integration and perform various acti...

At Build 2016, Microsoft a ounced that the company is officially bringing Bash to Windows. Of course, you can already run Bash on Windows with things like Cygwin and MYSYS which are basically a bundle of GNU utilities that provide utilities such as Bash and Gawk. Bash won’t run on a virtual machine ...