Microsoft’s search business is no longer simply a loss leader and has been taking real market share, both in USA and around the world. For this quarter the search business has seen positive growth of 10% YoY (11% in constant currency). This is 2% higher than the 8% growth of last quarter, suggestin

Microsoft has just reported its ea ings for the last quarter of its 2017 fiscal year. Redmond reported a revenue of $24.7 billion (non-GAAP) and $23.3 billion (GAAP). The net income was $7.7 billion (non-GAAP) and $6.5 billion (GAAP.) The Surface line, in particular, saw some decline, shrinking 2%

Microsoft released their quarterly ea ings report today and Xbox is as strong as ever. Even though Microsoft hasn’t really pushed out many games this year, the division showed strong figures and growth in key areas. Gaming revenue increased by $44 million or 3%, driven by higher revenue from softw

As the PC market starts to slowly recover with new types of devices and other i ovations, it’s fuelling the growth in Microsoft’s Windows OEM revenue. The company’s revenue gained from Windows OEMs experienced a decent rise last quarter, and the latest isn’t any different. Windows OEM revenue expe

In the tradition of breaking out individual aspects for Microsoft fans to have a look at on ea ings day, we’re breaking out Windows phones results once more. Microsoft’s Q4 2017 ea ings slides had this to say about their former mobile business; Phone revenue was immaterial and declined $361 milli

[embedded content] Developer Helios Interactive has created a multiplayer board game that augments creatures and battles on a gameboard, titled Echelon. In the game, players use cards to spawn creatures, and the monsters battle it out, all while building on the gameplay mechanics seen in many tradit

Lenovo today a ounced that Yoga Book with Windows will be available in two brand new colors. Yoga Book in Ruby Red and Pearl White will hit the shelves next month. Lenovo Yoga Book is a distinctive tablet with a unique clamshell configuration. It combines a typical tablet-style screen with a fully

At the third a ual Lenovo Tech World i ovation summit, Lenovo unveiled some concept products from its R&D labs. One of them was CAVA, a virtual assistant to take on Cortana, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant and others. Lenovo mentioned that CAVA uses deep lea ing-based face recognition systems

Today at Lenovo’s third a ual Tech World i ovation summit, the company showed off their vision for the future in the form of a number of concept devices which leverage AI for some of their capabilities. One of the devices was daystAR, which they brand as an “optical display with an independent vi

Microsoft today released a major update for SwiftKey app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. This new update includes bunch of new features like emoji prediction, improvements to 3D Touch and more. Whenever you want to insert an emoji, you generally scroll through a huge list of emojis to find

Microsoft’s official Surface repair tool, the Surface Diagnostic Toolkit, is now available from the Windows Store. The app was previously available as a Win32 app for old Surface devices, but now that Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop can’t install Win32 apps from outside the Windows Store, it’s relea

In September last year, LinkedIn released its LinkedIn Lite mobile web experience targeting its 42 millions users in India. Today, they a ounced the availability of LinkedIn Lite app for Android devices in India. LinkedIn Lite is a lighter version of LinkedIn mobile app experience that is data-eff

[embedded content] At Disney’s D23 event over the weekend, Marvel a ounced the company’s first virtual reality game, which goes by the name of Marvel Powers United VR. The game, which allows players to choose from 12 Marvel characters, is not due out until 2018 and will be exclusive to the Oculus R

Skype for Linux has been updated to version 5.4, it’s still a beta, but this update enables Group video calling — albeit in experimental form. Microsoft recently updated Skype for Windows 10, iOS, and Android to incorporate a new design language here’s hoping that this new update rolls out to Linux

You can now save big (up to $533) on refurbished Surface Book devices from Microsoft Store US. Each refurbished Surface Book undergo a rigorous refurbishing process that includes hardware and cosmetic quality inspections, software updating, and diagnostic testing. Find the updated price list below.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) yesterday a ounced that Bluetooth now supports mesh networking. Mesh networking support will enable creating large-scale device networks that is suited for building automation, sensor networks and other IoT solutions. Bluetooth mesh networking will work o

Recently, hackers tu ed-off power to more than 230,000 Ukrainian residents by exploiting a serial-to-Ethe et gateway vulnerability. The utilities industry is under continuous threat as hackers everywhere target them to create huge impact. Microsoft yesterday launched a new Azure Cyber Analytics p

It appears rumours of the demise of Google’s Augmented Reality headset, Google Glass, has been false, as the company has resurrected the device as Google Glass Enterprise Edition, targetted at companies who want to make their workers more productive. The headset has seen some minor improvements, wi

Update: The update will hit Xbox One and other platforms on July 25. Titanfall 2 is finally getting an update which will even make me want to go back and play it. Apart from a ouncing that the game had roughly 1 million players each month, Respawn Entertainment said that the title was getting a 4-

Microsoft today released Version 1707 (Build 8326.2033), a preview of the July feature update to Office 365 subscribers in Slow Ring. This is a massive release with several new features like support for 3D models, auto-save for cloud documents, collaborative editing in Excel and more. Find the full