4 months
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...
5 months
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...
6 months
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 ...
8 months
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...
10 months
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 ...
10 months
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...
1 year
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...
1 year
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...
1 year
In less than 24 hours, Microsoft is expected to be unveiling a new Surface Pro in Shanghai. This new Surface has already been leaked by the tech media, bringing new colours and a slightly refreshed design. It won’t bear the S...
1 year
My first personal tablet was a BlackBerry Playbook – yes – one of those doomed devices of yore. When I used it I wasn’t aware of tech news as much, I used the device to browse the internet, read books, listen to ...
1 year
I took on an experiment where I would use Microsoft universal Windows Store apps for a week rather than using desktop apps to try and pre-empt what life would be on a Windows 10 Cloud powered PC. With the exception of Slack, I att...
1 year
Last weekend I penned a piece about Microsoft’s advertising practices in Windows 10. I noted that the firm was traveling down a slippery slope, slowly escalating the level of advertising seen in each version of Windows from ...