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Is Microsoft Rethinking How It Sells Lumia to Businesses?

Is Microsoft Rethinking How It Sells Lumia to Businesses?

An anonymous tipster has sent me what appears to be internal Microsoft plans for packaging mid-range and high-end Lumia handsets for businesses.

Microsoft Send Expands Availability on iPhone, Reaches Preview on Android

Microsoft Send Expands Availability on iPhone, Reaches Preview on Android

This week, Microsoft has expanded the availability of its Send mobile app—which combines messaging with email—to both iPhone and Android, in preview.

Cortana Serves Up Coupons In Edge, Saves You a Few Bucks

With Windows 10, Microsoft has not only introduced its new browser Edge but they also integrated their personal digital assistant Cortana. To take it one step further, Microsoft integrated Cortana directly into the browser as well and has recently enabled a new feature to save you a few bucks while shopping. Cortana can now present coupons from popular…

Microsoft Touts Partner PCs at IFA Keynote

Microsoft Touts Partner PCs at IFA Keynote

At its Friday address at IFA 2015 in Berlin today, Microsoft provided a demo of Windows 10 before launching into a list of new Windows 10-powered PCs.

Firefox Will Adopt Chrome Add-Ons Too

Firefox Will Adopt Chrome Add-Ons Too

It looks like Microsoft isn't the only browser maker adopting the Google Chrome add-on model: Mozilla revealed this past week it will soon do so as well.

Shared Folder Sync is Now Available for (Almost) All OneDrive Users

Shared Folder Sync is Now Available for (Almost) All OneDrive Users

OneDrive has released Shared Folder sync for all OneDrive users. So you can now sync folders that others have shared with you to your desktop PC or Mac.

What I Use: Ireland 2015

What I Use: Ireland 2015

I'm heading to Ireland for about 10 days starting Monday night. I'll be taking a lot of pictures and working while traveling around the country.

Microsoft Announces Surface Hub Availability and Pricing

Microsoft Announces Surface Hub Availability and Pricing

Microsoft announced this morning that its Windows 10-based Surface Hub will be available for order starting on July 1, with the devices shipping to customers in September.

Microsoft to Rebrand Skype Wi-Fi as Microsoft Wi-Fi, Expand to Office 365

Microsoft to Rebrand Skype Wi-Fi as Microsoft Wi-Fi, Expand to Office 365

Microsoft hasn't announced this yet, but it is apparently rebranding Skype Wi-Fi as Microsoft Wi-Fi and adding a business version of the service.

Reading List: Industry E-Books and Audiobooks

Reading List: Industry E-Books and Audiobooks

A few readers have asked me recently for recommendations on recent books about the personal computing industry. And looking through my Kindle and Audible collections, I do see a pretty decent list of books that should be of interesting to many readers of this site. Here’s a quick run-through of the past few year’s worth…

Surface Design: Past, Present and Future

Surface Design: Past, Present and Future

  Microsoft’s senior creative director for Surface provided a fascinating inside look at the design and development of the product line during a session at Ignite this week in Chicago. Here’s a summary of the talk. You can find a video of the session, Design Matters for Microsoft Surface on the Channel 9 web site.…

Microsoft Details Coming Updates to Skype for Business

Microsoft Details Coming Updates to Skype for Business

At its Ignite conference today in Chicago, Microsoft announced a number of updates that it will provide for Skype for Business in the coming months. This summer, the product will be updated with new attachment and co-authoring features. And later in 2015, Skype for Business will be able to broadcast meetings to up to 10,000…

Need to Know: Microsoft Edge

Need to Know: Microsoft Edge

Microsoft is getting a lot of attention for pushing Internet Explorer towards retirement and replacing it with a young upstart called Edge. So here’s a quick overview of what you can expect from Microsoft Edge, the new web browser in Windows 10. Note: At the time of this writing, Edge isn’t complete and some of…

Hands-On with Surface Hub

Hands-On with Surface Hub

Sometime later this year, Microsoft will sell a new family of Windows 10 devices called Surface Hub with the aim of unlocking team collaboration in innovative new ways. If you think of Surface tablets as Windows expressed as hardware for individuals, Surface Hub is basically the same thing, but for teams. And now that I’ve…

Here Comes Continuum for Phones

Here Comes Continuum for Phones

For all the news that came out of Build this week, I think my favorite was Continuum for phones, a feature of Windows 10 that will enable smart phones handsets to act as tiny, full-powered PCs and work with external peripherals like keyboards, mice and displays. To use this feature, however, you’ll need to clear…

Microsoft Surface 3 Review

Folks, this is the Windows tablet you’ve been looking for. With Surface 3, Microsoft has hit the right combination of performance, capability and durability, with a device that provides the best of the successful Surface Pro 3 at a more affordable price. Surface 3 is a fine choice for students of all ages, mobile professionals,…

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