(Huawei Photo) Microsoft said it has been granted a license to sell software to Huawei, the latest development in the complicated relationship between the tech industry and the Chinese telecommunications…
Surface Earbuds. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft’s place in the battle of wireless earbud makers is going to be delayed a bit as the tech giant’s chief product officer announced Thursday that…
Continue readingIt’s no secret I dig WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and now that WSL2 is available in Windows Insiders Slow it’s a great time to really explore the options that are available. What I’m…
Continue readingFacebook has collaborated with Microsoft to further improve the latter’s Visual Studio Code’s remote development extensions to allow remote development at scale with the editor. As reported by Thurrott, Microsoft…
Continue readingMicrosoft Teams reported outages as of 7:30 p.m. Pacific time. DownDetector.com Update: Microsoft said it resolved the issue as of 10:30 p.m. Pacific Tuesday. Microsoft is citing a “recent networking…
Continue readingFortnite players on PC are getting a bit of an upgrade this week, as the latest update, the v11.20 update, for the game will allow players to play Fortnite using…
Continue readingThe free version of Microsoft Teams. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft Teams now has more than 20 million daily active users, a 50 percent spike in four months that puts the tool…
Continue readingLogitech’s new button kit hooked up to an Xbox Adaptive Controller at Microsoft’s Inclusive Tech Lab. (Logitech Photo) Electronics accessory manufacturer Logitech today unveiled a new low-cost button kit for…
Continue readingMicrosoft has today announced that the Cortana app on iOS and Android, including Cortana inside the Microsoft Launcher, is being phased out early next year in certain markets. I reported…
Continue readingWhen you think about Jupyter Notebooks, you probably think about writing your code in Python, R, Julia, or Scala and not .NET. Today we are excited to announce you can…
Continue reading(Photo by Casey Rodgers/Invision for Xbox/AP Images) Microsoft said it will bring its new cloud-based game streaming service to Windows 10 PCs, as part of a flurry of other announcements…
Continue readingWe’re announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. .NET Core 3.1 will be a small and short release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET…
Continue readingHarry Shum at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash. campus. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft AI chief Harry Shum is leaving after 23 years at the Redmond, Wash. tech giant in a…
Continue readingA view of Minecraft Earth on Seattle’s Burke Gilman Trail. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Joe Bergin) Minecraft Earth, Microsoft’s take on the smartphone-enabled augmented reality gaming craze, made its U.S. debut…
Continue readingIn September, we released .NET Core support for building Windows desktop applications, including WPF and Windows Forms. Since then, we have been delighted to see so many developers share their…
Continue readingMicrosoft President Brad Smith and employees protected by DACA at the Supreme Court. (Microsoft Photo / Thierry Humeau) Nineteen Microsoft employees traveled to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for…
Continue readingMicrosoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Microsoft plans to make changes required by California’s new data privacy law available to all its U.S. customers, the company…
Continue readingMicrosoft’s new “Play My Emails” feature is available first on Outlook for iPhone. (Microsoft Photo) Grab your headphones, press play, and groove to the sound of your email inbox. It…
Continue readingMicrosoft To Do has a richer widget and a new icon for dark mode users thanks to a recent update (via MSPU). The update allows Microsoft To Do’s widget to…
Continue readingSource: Daniel Rubino/Windows Central Microsoft’s Cortana has been undergoing an identity crisis in the last few years. As Windows Phone wound down, Microsoft tried, in vain, to push Cortana as…
Continue readingMicrosoft President Brad Smith speaking at the 2019 perthsnews.com.au Summit. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Dan DeLong) There’s the service and security engineer — brought to the U.S. from Mexico when she…
Continue readingThis is a guest post from the Orleans team. Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed applications with .NET. For more information, see https://github.com/dotnet/orleans. We are excited to announce the…
Continue readingKing County Executive Dow Constantine pleads the case for high-speed rail at a conference hosted by Microsoft. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Microsoft’s aspiration to build one of America’s first…
Continue readingMicrosoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie at the perthsnews.com.au Cloud Tech Summit. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Kevin Lisota) Facebook really wanted to hire Scott Guthrie. That’s one revelation from the internal Facebook documents…
Continue readingA palette makes it easy for painters to arrange and mix paints of different colors as they create art on the canvas before them. Having a similar tool that could…
Continue readingMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates. (New York Times Photo / Mike Cohen) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sat down for a candid and wide-ranging fireside chat Wednesday as part of the New…
Continue readingMicrosoft President Brad Smith and CFO Amy Hood announced the $500M affordable housing initiative in January 2019. (perthsnews.com.au Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) When several Seattle business leaders decided to take…
Continue reading(Microsoft Photo) Microsoft’s hardware division aims to shake up the notion of the two-in-one device with the Surface Pro X. Instead of a pure laptop-tablet hybrid, the device features several…
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