3 months
It’s hard to deny that Microsoft is letting its tablet mode die on the vine. True, the firm hasn’t outright tossed it out of Windows 10, but it hasn’t seen any major updates that make it more usable for tablet fi...
5 months
Bing is Microsoft’s Search engine, its answer to the question no one really asked. What if Microsoft created Google? Don’t get me wrong, Bing has a lot of potential. As a search engine, it comes with genuinely good and useful ...
5 months
Microsoft has a new Edge browser, and it’s pretty great. No, not that Microsoft Edge. The old Microsoft Edge, which you’re probably familiar with is the one that shipped with Windows 10. It was one of those newfangled ...
5 months
A lot of digital ink has been spilt over the life status of various Microsoft products over the years. Is the Windows Phone dead? Or is it alive? Is Microsoft Band dead, or is it alive? Is the Microsoft Store dead? Or is it alive?...
11 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...
11 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...
12 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...
1 year
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...
2 years
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...
2 years
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...
2 years
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...