Microsoft’s much-talked-about foldable Surface device, codenamed “Andromeda”, may hit the market in 2019, according to a new book titled “Beneath a Surface”. The book by journalist and tech blog Thurrot.com collaborator Brad Sams, which started shipping on November 29, covers how Microsoft built the…Read More »
Virtual- and augmented-reality headsets haven’t had much traction in the consumer market, but they’re finding a place on the battlefield. The US Army said Thursday that it has awarded Microsoft a $480 million contract to supply its HoloLens headsets to soldiers. The Microsoft…Read More »
Microsoft has added a Digital Health feature with Cortana support on the beta version of its Android launcher that will enable users to track app usages. With this, the Microsoft Launcher takes on Google’s own Digital Wellbeing initiative, currently available only for…Read More »
Samsung and Lenovo both have unveiled Snapdragon 850 laptops recently, and in order to make these Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops compatible with all Windows apps, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 15.9 last week. This offers developers an SDK and tools for creating 64-bit ARM…Read More »
Microsoft has launched a new app called Emoji8 that allows users to compare their own facial expressions to emojis and get evaluated with scores. “Emoji8 uses Windows Machine Learning (ML) to evaluate your facial expressions while you imitate a random selection of…Read More »
Microsoft has announced to acquire a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) and bot development company Xoxco for an undisclosed sum. Texas-based Xoxco has been paving the way in conversational AI since 2013 and was responsible for the creation of Howdy, the first commercially…Read More »
Microsoft may launch a disc-less Xbox One₹ 4,599 in 2019 according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. In addition to forsaking physical media, it also plans to allow Xbox One owners to trade in their existing games on disc for digital downloads. The…Read More »
Microsoft’s Head of digital Assistant Cortana is leaving the company by the end of the year, as Cortana has moved from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) research division into the Experiences and Devices group. First reported by ZDNet on Tuesday, Javier Soltero, Vice President of Cortana, confirmed his…Read More »
At Xbox fan event X018, Microsoft announced the purchase of Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth studio Obsidian Entertainment. In addition to this, the company also bought inXile Entertainment, creator of Torment: Tides of Numenera and Wasteland 2.…Read More »
In an apparent jibe against rivals Google and Facebook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said the company doesn’t use customers’ personal data for profit unlike some other firms. In an interview with The Times on Monday, Nadella said the company “had chosen not to squeeze the last drop of…Read More »