Microsoft has announced the list of new features that it proposes to add to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 R2, bundled together and referred to as the August Update, to add new features, enhancements and improvements to the operating systems. In April this year,…
If you are a Surface Pro 3 fan, Microsoft has a good news for you. Surface Pro 3, which is one of the most talked about Microsoft devices, will be available in 25 more markets beginning on August 28th. The device is now available for…
Starting August 12th, Internet Explorer will start blocking out-of-date Java ActiveX controls. Oracle Java, along with Adobe Flash, have been a major vector used to plant malware on Windows systems for quite some time now. These Java or ActiveX controls need to be updated regularly,…
The Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Program is an initiative by Microsoft, where top pioneer educators who have used technology to transform education and make a difference are recognized. The company is looking for educators who are now ready to share the things they have been…
The latest news that we have from Microsoft, is that is going to kill older versions of Internet Explorer from 2016 onwards. Come January 12, 2016 the company will stop providing support for all outdated IE versions and is going to support only the most…
OneDrive (previously SkyDrive) advertises itself as ‘OneDrive on any device, anytime’ – and yes OneDrive has been made available on Windows PCs, Macs, tablets and mobile phones. While OneDrive is built in to the latest version of Windows, it can also be downloaded for older…
In case you have missed this bit of news, your Skype contacts won’t be appearing online anymore in Trillian because Skype has stopped support for Trillian and other 3rd-party IM’s, wef 1st August 2104. As announced by Microsoft last year, Skype is no longer supporting…
Although Nokia has been taken over by Microsoft few months back, the demand for its low cost handsets has still not been affected. The reason for this is that, Nokia mobile phones are designed as “built to last”. Nokia 130 and Nokia 130 Dual are…
Windows 8.1 August Update is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Your Windows Updates may not be offering this update yet, as it is being gradually rolled out. So if you do not want to wait, you can download it directly now…
On 6th August, Microsoft has announced that they are going to block outdated Active X control on Internet Explorer 8 and higher. The reason for this is, older version of plugins has security loopholes which makes Internet Explorer vulnerable. After the announcement, people raised their…
A team of researchers from Microsoft Research were able to modify a regular smartphone camera or webcam to capture – Kinect-like – depth, with the help of simple hardware changes and machine learning techniques. The team modified the conventional monocular 2D camera by removing the…
Bing is now empowered to be conversational! Microsoft has rolled out a new feature to its search engine, Bing, that allows users to have answers to their follow up questions to their initial query. So, you can ask “who is the president of the united…