5 months
First phones were small. Then big and wide. Then thin and tall. Then they were notched. From next year, they will bend and flex into all sorts of shapes and sizes. Flexible displays are a new technology to enable a new form factor...
5 months
Microsoft is reportedly working in a new strain of Windows. Windows Lite. This Windows SKU will not act like other versions of Windows in the past few years; it won’t run Windows 10 qua Windows 10. It will run the new Chromi...
6 months
Google earlier this year announced its take on the form factor popularised by Microsoft’s Surface Pro with the Pixel Slate. It would be a tablet that could replace your laptop, and it was gorgeous — the way Google told...
8 months
On Friday, Apple will release the iPhone XS and XS Max with the XR coming in October. All these phones will partake in the annual ritual of being praised for their Appleness and criticised for the price, as per usual. These device...
1 year
If you’ve ever streamed games using Twitch or YouTube, you know how toxic those communities can be. While it’s near impossible to rid these platforms of toxicity completely, some do so better than others. MicrosoftR...
1 year
To get it out of the way, I don’t think there’s any veracity to current rumors swirling around that Microsoft is looking to buy Electronic Arts, which was briefly mentioned in a Polygon article recently. In fact, I hes...
1 year
Early last week, I reviewed Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, thinking about how the new mobile app would change the way Edge was viewed. I reasoned while writing the article, that Microsoft Edge would, for instance, now become ...
2 years
Windows Phone was Microsoft’s ambitious plan to build a unique OS that ultimately failed. The company is no longer focusing on building hardware for Windows Phone, but it is believed to be working on a new mobile/hybrid devi...
2 years
Three years ago, Microsoft appeared at IFA to launch two new Windows phones. They were mid-range devices, the Lumia 830 and the 730, but they continued Microsoft’s then interesting push into mobile and mobile imaging. Two years ...
2 years
Microsoft’s Windows Store is the firm’s digital store front for its customers and arguably the main point of Windows 10. Microsoft really wants you to use the Store for everything, you can possibly need in your digital...
2 years
An often misattributed quote defines insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. With reports of yet another Windows phone reboot (a rose by any other name…), Microsoft may be appro...
2 years
Microsoft’s newest Surface Pro has finally been announced, with a new kickstand, a new pen and more. This new Surface Pro ditches the numbering system that the firm has now described as “cumbersome” for a numberl...