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Microsoft's working on its next-gen Hololens and if you look closely, the company has been slowly announcing all the new components in the hardware.

Microsoft announces new updates to Microsoft Education, including a new Chemistry update for Minecraft: Education Edition, new MR content for Windows Mixed Reality, and cheap new Windows 10 2-in-1s.

After a successful pilot program, auto-maker Ford says that it will expand its use of Microsoft's HoloLens for vehicle design.

Microsoft implements technology too quickly, allowing followers like Apple to come in later and perfect and popularize it.

Apple's long-anticipated move into Augmented Reality (AR) has delivered a decisive death blow to HoloLens and the Windows Mixed Reality platform.

This week, Microsoft announced the new Surface Pro and new Surface peripherals at a special event in Shanghai, China. Now, you can watch the presentation via a series of on-demand videos.

While Microsoft enthusiasts continue to react poorly to the software giant's new strategy, I see a clarity here that should be celebrated. Microsoft is doing the right thing.

Microsoft has set its eyes on Hololens V3 as the company sidelines the second version to focus on a bigger leap in capability for the hero device.

Today: Microsoft president recommends a 'Digital Geneva Convention', Forza video games top $1 billion in sales, Microsoft delays Patch Tuesday, much more.

Make no mistake when it comes to virtual reality (VR). It's not a fad. And it's only going to get better over time.

Microsoft announced another major milestone in the distribution of its mixed reality headset: HoloLens is now available for purchase in Japan.

The Unified Update Platform (UUP) promises to dramatically reduce the size of the updates---major or minor---that Microsoft delivers to Windows 10 going forward.

Google has been talking about its Tango augmented reality initiative since last year, but it's finally happening: The first Tango smartphone is now available.

Microsoft announced this morning that it is accepting pre-orders for its HoloLens mixed reality headset in six additional countries, Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Microsoft started rolling out its latest cumulative update to PCs yesterday, and today HoloLens is getting the same treatment with an update primarily focused on the smaller niggling issues throughout the operating system.

So Microsoft is freeing the Windows Holographic shell from its HoloLens shackles and will make it available on mainstream PCs. But I'm still not sold on augmented reality, or mixed reality, or whatever they're calling it this week. And part of the problem is Microsoft's mixed up messaging.

Microsoft is bringing the Windows Holographic shell to the desktop with an update to Windows 10 in 2017.

HoloLens users: rejoice! Fighting with your glasses while using a HoloLens device will be a thing of the past, thanks to an insert developed by New York lens manufacturer Rochester Optical.

Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows 10 Anniversary Edition to PCs and devices around the world, and HoloLens is no exception. (Sorry, Windows 10 Mobile users.)

HoloLens application development just got a smidgen easier thanks to new build tools incorporated into Microsoft’s open-source HoloToolkit.

Microsoft is bringing a new feature called Your Groove to your favorite music service. Your Groove provides a new view in the PC, Mobile, and HoloLens versions of the Groove Music app with recently played music and curated playlists.

During a press event at the Computex 2016 trade show in Taipei on Wednesday morning, Microsoft revealed that it will open up the technology behind its mixed reality HoloLens device to hardware partners. And it will forego a virtual reality (VR) solution of its own.

Microsoft announced today that it has shipped the May 2016 Update for HoloLens, a release it describes as the first major software update for this new platform.

Microsoft just started shipping HoloLens Development Edition kits and after its long trek from Suzhou, China, it's here. With a clicker in tow.

During its Build 2016 keynote address, Microsoft announced that has begun shipping HoloLens to the first wave of developers who had signed up for the Developer Edition.

A video and transcript of a TED appearance by HoloLens inventor Alex Kipman is now available, providing a peek at what Microsoft sees as the future of this technology. Which is nothing less than the freeing ourselves from what he calls "the 2D confines of traditional computing."