Google said this week that it is bringing native Microsoft Office editing capabilities to the mobile versions of its productivity apps. | Continue reading
After months of hints that it was rebranding its search service, Microsoft seems to be moving forward with a new brand, Microsoft Bing. | Continue reading
With TikTok poised to sell its non-Chinese assets to Microsoft or Oracle, China took steps to intervene in any deal. | Continue reading
We have seen internal Microsoft documents describing a massive reorganization of its Windows business, which is now called Windows + Devices. | Continue reading
Microsoft has been collaborating with Google so that their tools interoperate and can help developers get their PWAs into the Play Store. | Continue reading
Looking for the easy way to customize the look and feel of Windows 10? Here are five apps that I use to make Windows 10 a little more personal. | Continue reading
Early Apple silicon benchmarks have leaked online as expected. And it’s really bad news for fans of Surface Pro X and Windows 10 on ARM. | Continue reading
In Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Subsystem for Linux picks up additional capabilities. But it’s going to get even better next year. | Continue reading
With Windows 10 version 20H2, Windows 10 on ARM will finally support Hyper-V. But the system was never available virtually. | Continue reading
Microsoft's modern command-line application for Windows 10, the new Windows Terminal, is now available for enterprise use with the release of version 1.0. | Continue reading
Windows 10 on ARM still has far too many limitations to recommend, but one of the most serious may soon be eliminated. | Continue reading
Well, here’s the final nail in the UWP coffin: At Build 2020, Microsoft will finally describe how it plans to move past this platform disaster. | Continue reading
In a sharp blow to Amazon, the U.S. Department of Defense found that Microsoft's $10 billion JEDI contract award was correct. | Continue reading
With millions of small businesses not expected to survive COVID-19, Microsoft is pivoting its SMB resources to more crucial concerns. | Continue reading
With usage of the insecure Zoom platform skyrocketing, Microsoft is offering up Skype as a safer and just as free alternative. | Continue reading
It took about twice as long as originally promised, but Windows 10 is finally in active use by over one billion users on over one billion devices. | Continue reading
AMD unveils its new Ryzen 4000 series of processors for ultrathin laptops, promises lead on single-thread, multi-thread, and graphics performance over Intel alternatives. | Continue reading
Microsoft said this week that it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5.0 but will no longer add new features or evolve the language. | Continue reading
As many of you know, I’m a big fan of Intel’s NUC family of small form factor PCs. But I’m not just a fan: I’m a customer and a daily user too. | Continue reading
Apple continues to unify the iOS and Mac App Store: will now allow users to pay for an app once, and access it on all their devices. | Continue reading
Microsoft has reportedly delayed the Surface Hub 2X, and the product may not actually ever ship to customers. | Continue reading
Microsoft plans to be carbon negative by the end of this decade, but it has even bigger sustainability plans for the future. | Continue reading
Microsoft is deprecating its Windows Store for Business and Windows Store for Education, another major step back from its original app store strategy. | Continue reading
The growing competition between Microsoft Teams and Slack is having some influence on Slack, with the company testing a new mobile app design that looks kind of similar to Microsoft Teams. | Continue reading
Microsoft revealed today that it will finally shut down the Wunderlist apps and service, on May 6, 2020. | Continue reading
Here’s one thing the U.S. government might not have considered when it banned Huawei from doing business in the country. | Continue reading
Google quietly revealed this week that it will kill Cloud Print, a cloud-based printing solution that never exited beta. | Continue reading
In the wake of news that Microsoft Teams now has over 20 million active daily users, Slack says it has greater engagement. | Continue reading
Microsoft Edge is getting a new logo, and it is...something. The new logo was revealed as part of a long treasure hunt carried out by Microsoft. | Continue reading
In yet another blow to Adobe Flash, Google this week said that it will stop indexing Flash-based content in its search engine. | Continue reading
With antitrust regulators breathing down its neck, Amazon has extended an olive branch to other makers of digital personal assistants. | Continue reading
Just as Apple is moving iOS developers from Objective-C to Swift, Google is moving Android developers from Java to Kotlin. | Continue reading
Apple plays catch-up with Spotify, Amazon, and Google with brand new web player for Apple Music, now available in a public beta. | Continue reading
We already knew that the new, Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge won’t support the EPUB document format. | Continue reading
Apple design strikes again. This time, it's telling you not to put a credit card in your leather wallet, or in contact with denim. Meet the Apple Card. | Continue reading
Apple recently announced it will stop apps in the Kids Category from using third-party advertising or analytics. And that's led to some major concerns for developers behind the hundreds of kids apps on the App Store. | Continue reading
Apple has quietly revealed that it will implement an anti-tracking policy for its WebKit browser engine that’s based on Mozilla’s. | Continue reading
Thanks to the open-source nature of Chromium, Microsoft has had its first major and positive impact on Chrome, Google’s web browser. | Continue reading
Months after releasing it as an extension, Google revealed that it will simply build its Password Checkup into the Chrome browser. | Continue reading
Back at E3 2017, Micorosft showed off what was going to be the next major update for Minecraft. Called the Super Duper Graphics Pack, the update would significantly improve the visual assets of the game and add a new dimension to the blocky universe. | Continue reading
Samsung is announcing the world's first mobile image sensor that goes beyond 100 million pixels., built-in partnership with Xiaomi. | Continue reading
Apple starts the public rollout of its new Apple Card with a preview rollout with select users in the United States. | Continue reading
With the launch of Apple Arcade just around the corner, Google starts testing new subscription that gives users access to a collection of paid apps and games on the Play Store. | Continue reading
Apple is joining Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and others in the Data Transfer Project to enable seamless data transfer between platforms. | Continue reading
Google is spilling the tea on Pixel 4 with some more details on two new features: Motion Sense and Face Unlock. | Continue reading
In Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft, author G. Pascal Zachary recounts the amazing story of how Microsoft created the product that it eventually named Windows NT. I highly recommend this book to everyone reading this series … | Continue reading
The mobile version of Microsoft Word has hit an impressive milestone: It’s been installed over 1 billion times on Android. | Continue reading
Microsoft's Your Phone app now lets you mirror your Android notifications on your computer, and interact with it through screen mirroring right from your PC. | Continue reading