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We reported yesterday that Surface Book 2 owners were complaining that theKB4467682 Cumulative Update was resulting in Blue Screen crashes for their PCs. Now Microsoft has updated the support page f...

One of the best features of the Microsoft HoloLens is placing virtual objects firmly fixed into a real space and finding those objects still in the same place when you leave and retu.This impressive ability, which gives virtual objects some real-wo...

Microsoft MakeCode is a web-based environment for kids and children to lea to code with physical computing devices such as the micro:bit and Circuit Playground. It brings programming to life for all students with fun projects, immediate results, and both block and text editors for leaers at different levels. Microsoft has now added support for Minecraft on MakeCode.Students can use it to progr...

Microsoft today aounced a new service calledOffice 365 Usage Analytics that will be generally available in early 2018. Organizations can deploy number of apps and services for their employees, but they really won’t have information on how their employees are actually using those apps and services.Office 365 Usage Analytics is the solution to this problem, it will help organizations to analyze...

[embedded content]Microsoft yesterday revealed the upcoming updates to their Remote Desktop Services (RDS) solution. Microsoft RDS allows anyone access a remotely-hosted Windows desktop environment or application from almost any device. They already have Remote Desktop clients for Windows, Windows 10 S, iOS and Android. Now, they are adding supportfor HTML5 browser-delivered experience which will...

Microsoft keeps finding handy uses for Windows Insiders. The latest may be to test Surface firmware and drivers. WindowsCentral reports that Microsoft has been pushing out new Surface Laptop UEFI drivers and firmware to Windows 10 Insiders, initially to those on the Fast Ring and then on the Release Preview Ring. The update takes theUEFI drivers from 136.1668.769.0 to 136.1736.769.0, Keyboard d...

[embedded content] Microsoft today aounced full support for Botkit in Microsoft Teams. Botkit is leading developer tool for building chat bots, apps and custom integrations for major messaging platforms and it is in use by 10,000’s of bots right now. With Botkit support in Teams, developers can easily start building bots for inteal use or customer-facing services.Using Botkit Studio, develope...

Microsoft is making use of artificial intelligence to advance healthcare in India. Redmond is teaming up with the state of Telangana in India where the company will be using its artificial intelligence technology to provide healthcare for children with eye problems. Indian stateTelangana will be u...

Microsoft today aounced the availability ofBing Entity Search API.Bing Entity Search API is part of Microsoft Cognitive Services and it is now available for developers within the United States in free preview. Bing Entity Search API allows developers to enrich theirapp by infusing Bing’s knowl...

World of Tank developer Wargaming has partnered withthe Tank Museum at Bovington at Tankfest 2017 to complete the missing tank from the new Tiger Collection: the legendary and ultra-rare Sturmmörserwagen 606/4 mit 38cm RW 61, nicknamed Sturmtiger. Then, using Microsoft HoloLens and Google Tango...

[embedded content] An artificial intelligence-based system developed by Microsoft has achieved the maximum possible score for the Ms. Pac-Man game, 999,990. This system was developed by a team at Maluuba, a Canadian deep leaing startup acquired by Microsoft earlier this year. They used a divide-an...

[embedded content] Microsoft Garage’s latest app Face Swap allows you to to transport yourself into fun scenes using a selfie. You need to just take a selfie, choose a scene from your camera roll or the web, and swipe through your results. This app uses facial recognition technology developed by Mic...

Yesterday, Microsoft aounced the preview ofdisaster recovery for Azure IaaS VMs using Azure Site Recovery. This will allow enterprise customers to easily replicate their VMs to a different Azure region of their choice. The main highlight of this feature is that they don’t need to deploy any addit...

At the Day 2 of the 2016 Intel Developer Forum, Diane Bryant,Intel executive vice president and general manager of its Data Center Group aounced the availability of Silicon Photonics. Silicon photonics combines the integrated circuit and the semiconductor laser so that data can be sent and received through light. Kushagra Vaid, GM, Azure Cloud HW Engineering from Microsoft joined Intel on stage to reveal that Microsoft is an early adopter of the Intel Silicon Photonics technology and they are using it in Azure data centers to drive scale. Intel silicon photonics PSM4 module will be deployed in Microsoft Azure for switch-to-switch coectivity and it offers up to 100Gbps of data transfer speeds...

[embedded content] Legendary and Microsoft HoloLens are breaking down barriers between entertainment and audience, allowing fans to get closer and interact with characters and content in new ways. Microsoft HoloLens enables Legendary to tu fans’ favorite characters into interactive, life-sized holograms. “Microsoft HoloLens lets us bring characters from the worlds we create into the real world,” says Emily Castel, C...

[embedded content] A group of Microsoft employees are trying to use HoloLensto help the brain establish new leaed coections and stop misfiring. This project was started this weekas part of Oneweek2016, an aual hackathon eventat Microsoft. What if you could teach your brain to respond differently? Inspired by their leader and fellow employee who lives with a neurological disorder, this Microsoft Hackathon team aims to use augmented reality to help the brain establish new leaed coections and stop misfiring. Watch the video above to lea more about this project. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

[embedded content] To promote Surface Pro 4, Microsoft teamed up with three artists from London, Paris, and Stockholm and asked them to draw scenes from their respective cities. Working together on a Surface Pro 4, they created a collaborative piece of art combining timeless views of their cities into one piece of digital art. Check it out the video above. Surface Pro 4 runs all the desktop software you rely on, while being lighter than ever starting at 1.69 pounds. The 12.3-inch PixelSense display has extremely high contrast and low glare. Go from laptop to tablet with the multi-position Kickstand and keyboard. And jot down notes and ideas with Surface Pen and improved Type Cover. When you ...

As you may have all been well aware, oneof Microsoft’s selling features for Windows 10 Smartphones is Continuum for phones. Continuum for Phones is a Windows 10 feature that expresses the core idea of Windows 10, of devices as screens. It allows you to use your mobile phone – as long as it is sufficiently powerful – and project its screen to another dumb screen. In this scenario, your phone becomes a virtual PC and can run universal Windows apps which adapt to screen- sizes and provide a consistent or neat consistent experience from mobile devices to PCs. Microsoft has been pushing continuum for phones hard on its Windows 10 Phones, with nearly every Windows 10 Phone worth mentioning (and th...