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[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...

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...

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...