Will Microsoft Azure and Office 365 be Hit by Amazon’s $13.7B Whole Foods Acquisition?
While everyone is busy talking about Amazon agreeing to acquire Whole Foods Market for a whopping $13.7 billion, there's something else going on in the background on the cloud computing side of things. Whole...
Microsoft’s Two-Pronged Plan for Surface Phone: Surface Mobile and Mystery Project
That Microsoft desperately wants another shot at the smartphone market is a well-known secret. Surface Phone rumors have been flying about for several years now, but we are yet to see any concrete plans...
Microsoft Claws Back on Surface Sales Decline with Surface Pro and Surface Laptop
Microsoft is going gung-ho on Surface devices this year, with two key products already launched and at least one more revolutionary device in the pipeline. 2016 was a very dry year for Surface releases,...
Gartner’s Cloud Computing IaaS Magic Quadrant Reveals a Hard Truth
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, in which the research firm groups competing players based on their vision and ability to execute, shows Amazon and Microsoft way ahead of the pack,...
Top Games for Your Windows Phone
The concept of gaming has evolved right along with mobile phones, with more and more people using their phone as their primary gaming device. These are some of the top games that can be...
Xbox One X “not the money-making part of the business”: Phil Spencer, Xbox Chief
Despite its steep $499 price-tag, the Xbox One X doesn't actually make Microsoft any money, says Xbox chief Phil Spencer. Microsoft is usually very reserved about putting out its numbers, in general, so it...
Microsoft’s Windows June Patch Tuesday Fixes 96 Different Vulnerabilities, Update Now
June's Patch Tuesday for Windows machines brought no less than 96 different patches for various vulnerabilities. That number also includes two vulnerabilities that are under active attack right now, CVE-2017-8543 and CVE-2017-8464.This month's Patch Tuesday also includes...
End of the Line for Windows 10 Mobile, Builds to Remain on “Feature2” Branch
Windows 10 Mobile will no longer receive Insider builds on the Redstone 3 branch. The company has confirmed that it will stay indefinitely on the "Feature2" branch. The feature2 branch was initially thought to...
Windows 10 Version 1511 Now Has WannaCry PoC EternalBlue Exploit
All through the WannaCry ransomware attacks, Microsoft kept telling users that Windows 10 was safe from being targeted. Now, however, security researchers from RiskSense have ported a proof of concept EternalBlue exploit to the older...
Microsoft’s Xbox One X (Project Scorpio) 4K Launch Titles are Hogging the Spotlight. Why?
Microsoft is making a big deal of 4K with the newly unveiled Xbox One X, formerly known as Xbox Project Scorpio. But that's natural, considering the fact that it's going to cost $499 -...