OneDrive for Android updated with Office Lens goodness
Microsoft today released a new update to OneDrive on Android. The company is bringing some of the goodness from its Office Lens app to the OneDrive app with the latest update. It’s boosting OneDrive’s Scan feature with some big upgrades, utilizing some of the power of Office Lens. OneDrive’s Scan fe...
HoloLens AR compared to Snapchat AR (video)
The Microsoft HoloLens is an incredibly sophisticated device, featuring custom hardware and unique software algorithms. The platform has however rapidly been overtaken, in terms of mindshare, by phone-based AR, which uses standard smartphone cameras and very clever software to superimpose digital im...
Use Google Allo without installing Chrome with this desktop app
While Google made its Allo app available on the Windows desktop a few weeks ago, we noted that it was limited to Chrome and users of other browsers–including Microsoft’s Edge–couldn’t use the app.An enterprising developer has built a dedicated Windows app (as well as a MacOS app) so users can make u...
Action Toasts is an app which extends the Action Center
The Windows 10 Action Centre is — besides being a notification center — a place where users can carry out actions. For apps like messaging and email, for example, users can easily reply to messages or triage their inbox all from the action center. Action toasts is one such app. It extends the Action...
Xbox One X and other games win big at Gamescom Awards 2017
It looks like Microsoft is doing well at Gamescom 2017. Every year the event crowns some wi ers for their best of show awards. This time around a lot of games which will be on Xbox One, as well as the Xbox One X, took home the honors. Some of the main awards are as follows: Gamescom 2017 Award for B...
Microsoft closes the door on the original Xbox One
The original Xbox One will go down as another example of how Microsoft grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory, going from the most popular console of the last generation to selling only half as much as the PlayStation 4. It is therefore not with much sadness we bid farewell to the device, as Micros...
FAQ reveals more detail about WhatsApp for Business
It is still to launch, but WhatsApp has been slowly working towards a new service which is set to make their messaging platform a lot more useful for their billion users. WhatsApp for Business would allow users to engage businesses to ask questions, seek support and eventually engage in e-commerce, ...
Microsoft’s newest mobile build partially breaks Windows Hello
Microsoft released a new build for Windows 10 Mobile insiders last night with a slew of bug fixes.While Microsoft didn’t highlight any new known issues in accordance with its new policies, that doesn’t mean that Windows 10 Mobile devices didn’t pick up some new bugs with this release. Some users hav...