Category: Microsoft
Microsoft rumoured to be stopping Surface production – though it is probably DigiTimes talking rubbish again
Another day, another completely spurious rumour from Taiwan's DigiTimes. The website is reporting that Microsoft is about to kill off its Surface line of tablets. There are mountains of salt not large enough for our scepticism on this claim. Such a move could conceivably make sense: The first two Surface generations bled money for the…
Media streamer Plex is coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360
Media streaming app Plex is coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360 - which should make it easier than ever for Xbox owners to get content from their hard discs on to the big screen. Plex is a pretty clever idea: It is basically a nice looking front-end through which you can access videos stored…
Lumia 830 goes on sale in the UK
The Microsoft Lumia 830 has finally hit shelves in the UK. The "affordable flagship" phone from what used to be known as Nokia will be available on contracts starting at £24.99/month. The phone was announced last month and features a 5" screen, 10MP camera, and the latest Lumia Denim firmware. You can read more about…
Looking back at 10 versions of Windows following Microsoft’s Windows 10 announcement
[nextpage title="Next"] Microsoft has just announced the most recent version of Windows - Windows 10. That's a big number, so how did we get here? Let's take a stroll down memory lane and check out what all of the previous versions of the operating system were like. [/nextpage] [nextpage title="Next"] Windows 1 Picture the scene:…
Is Microsoft killing Bing?
It looks like Microsoft is killing off the Bing brand name... and bringing back MSN right: MSN. In a brand strategy that seems to be increasingly randomly chosen, apparently the latest version of Windows Phone - 8.1 - sees the various Bing apps, such as Bing Finance being rebadged to remove the "Bing" name. The…
WATCH: Windows 9 Start Menu in action
Wondering what your operation system will look like in a couple of years? Check out this video of a build of Windows 9 (codename "Threshold") that YouTuber WinFuture has put online. If you like Windows 7, but with a Windows 8-style layer on paint on top, you're going to like this. It's essentially everything Windows…
Microsoft finally killing off the Nokia name for good
We've known for some time that now that Microsoft own's Nokia's phone division it will be phasing out the Nokia name - the brand wasn't part of the sale. But now we have more details on exactly how that will be happening. Geek On Gadgets has got hold of an internal document outlining how the…
Microsoft considering naming Windows 9 (and everything else) just “Windows”
Potentially confusing news from Microsoft as it has emerged that the company is considering rebranding all of its different operating systems - Windows 9, Windows Phone and Windows RT (tablet windows) to simply be called, umm, "Windows". The news comes from Softpedia, which cites "sources" - and it would square with other indications we've got…
Microsoft announce Lumia Denim update and Lumia 830, Lumia 730 handsets
Microsoft's press conference at IFA in Berlin has just finished, and here's all of the new stuff that you need to know about! Lumia Denim So first the software - Lumia Denim is the next update that will be rolling out to all Lumia handsets. This will add the new features from Windows Phone 8.1,…
Nokia X gets support for Google services
Nokia X, Microsoft's accidental Android off-shoot has just received another update that unexpectedly lets users access Google's Android apps. Previously, though Nokia X devices ran the Android operating system, it was an unofficial "fork" of the system - so essentially had all of its Google-ness removed, a bit like how Amazon's KindleFire runs Android Apps…
