Last year at the Microsoft event in January, the company mainly focused in the release of Windows 10 and the beta process for the release in July, but a few other tidbits and interesting new products were announced along side the operating system news. One was the ‘HoloLens’ headset and the gigantic Surface Hub display, which supports the use of a stylus pen to draw on various pages or diagrams. […]
Windows 10 Mobile is just around the corner and already Here maps have pulled out and won’t be supporting Windows 10 or the mobile version at all. For users of Windows Phone, they have had access to Nokia’s Here maps system for a while now as well as Microsoft’s own Bing services also. Earlier this month Nokia sold the Here maps service to a group of German can manufacturers for […]
For a long time, Skype has traditionally been a proprietary desktop app so users on Chromebooks couldnt use the service, instead reverting to Google’s own Hangouts service or another web based system. But the new Skype for Web service is web only and has slowly been adding features and now users can call mobile and landline phones using it, without a plugin all using HTML5. The site now has a a […]
Back in December last year, we reported that Lionhead Studios were on track to release the brand new Fable Legends game this spring, but in the last couple of days Microsoft has announced that they are cancelling the release of the game and also completely shutting down the studio responsible for all the previous instalments. Fable Legendswas promised to be completely different from any of the previous titles, being a free to […]
Windows Phone sales aren’t great right now, but it isn’t really a big secret but in general the entire smartphone industry hasn’t grown that much in the past few months. The smartphone market has only grew in size by 9.7% in Q4 2015 and this is the lowest it has ever been since 2008 right when smartphones were becoming mainstream. The main sales figures for the Windows Phone have also been released […]
Visiting the Windows Store for apps at the moment does a have a random list of new apps and some of the old ones for Windows 8 when the store debuted, but finding those new apps which have been optimised for Windows 10 on the desktop and Windows 10 Mobile can be a little bit difficult. But now Microsoft have added labels to those shiny new apps that have been […]
Windows 10 is now just over six months old and in that time, Microsoft have broken a few records, just in the first few days since is was released the adoption rate greatly surpassed Windows 8 when it was announced back in 2012. Now this week, Windows 10 has just overtaken the ancient Windows XP in terms of usage figures, according to Net Applications. As of writing Windows 10 is now […]
As a Windows Insider myself the initial experience of trying out a operating system in its rawest form is quite a experience, a lot of people get pretty fed up with their computers anyway without the need for beta software in the mix but last year from January when the Windows 10 Insider Preview was released through to July when the pubic edition went live, users willing to give up […]
Windows 10 Mobile has been a long time coming, with the desktop equivalent the company managed to be on time for the release, July 29. However with Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone users have been waiting quite a number of months now but some users in Germany shouldn’t have to wait too long now as T-Mobile Germany has announced that the update to the phones will be updated soon to the […]
Even though the adoption rate is slowing, Windows 10 is still growing but Microsoft is always finding ways to advertise and to have compelling reasons to upgrade. One way is the latest promotions that are now available on the Windows Store, right now until November 29th, more than 1,000 songs, apps, games, songs and movies have been discounted down to just 10 cents. Games such as Angry Birds Star Wars, […]
