I’m here on the Microsoft campus for the MVP Summit, a mostly yearly gathering of some 1500 Microsoft MVP awardees, and as usual being right in the thick of things is about the hardest place there is to keep up on the news.
But the news goes on, …
3rd party apps coming to Outlook.com
Microsoft continues to re-examine and bolster its platform company roots, this time by announcing app support for Outlook.com, coming in Spring 2015. Microsoft has been pushing 3rd party development on its Office properties, announcing API support for Office 365 last spring, and extending that with new SDKs …
Microsoft Band: cross platform, yet Better Together with Windows Phone (and Cortana)
Microsoft took the wraps off its latest devices and services tonight, a few hours early after apparently breaking its own embargo, announcing not only the Microsoft Band, a wearable fitness device with 10 types of sensors to monitor everything from heart rate to GPS location, but …
Storage Wars: Microsoft offers unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 customers
First it was a terabyte of storage, and now Microsoft has one-upped itself, announcing today that its offering unlimited storage for Office 365 customers. The offer includes both OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, according to Chris Jones in a post on the OneDrive blog, and is …
Microsoft debuts a new header for your online apps
Microsoft’s online apps are sporting a bit of a new look today with a new app switcher for Office Online and the Outlook.com Mail, People, Calendar, and OneDrive apps. The new switcher resides in the upper left corner of the online headers, providing a consistent and convenient place …
Windows Insiders get first Windows 10 Tech Preview update: Build 9860
Less than a month (three weeks, actually) after Windows 10 Tech Preview was first made available to “Windows Insiders” (read: anyone who signed up, over a million at last count), Microsoft today released a new build of the Tech Preview, Build 9860. According to a post on …
Build 2015 dates announced: April 29-May 1
At last month’s unveiling of Windows 10 at a press event in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO mentioned that we’d be hearing more about the latest version of Windows at the next Build, in April. Now, today, Microsoft has announced a few more specifics about its developer focused conference. …
Skype relaunches video service Qik as “Skype Qik”
Skype acquired the upstart video streaming service Qik in January 2011, reportedly for $100 million, where it survived for three years before being retired in April 2014. Now, the service, or at least the name, has been reborn as Skype Qik, according to a posting on the …
Is Windows 10 your daily driver?
It’s been almost two weeks since Windows 10 was made available for download as a Technical Preview, and according to a new post on Blogging Windows, more than a million early adopters have already joined the Windows Insider program and downloaded the latest version of Windows to …
The latest from OnMSFT.com
- Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer at age 65 October 15, 2018
- Microsoft releases first Xbox One 1811 build for Preview Alpha Insiders October 15, 2018
- Microsoft test new Cortana UI for Android and iOS with v3.0 beta October 15, 2018
- How to modify your hosts file in Windows 10 (and why you might want to) October 15, 2018
- Microsoft to disable outdated TLS 1.0, 1.1 for Edge and IE early next year October 15, 2018
- Adobe announces full Photoshop for iPad, coming in 2019 October 15, 2018
- Microsoft launches new “blush” Surface Laptop 2 for the Chinese market October 15, 2018
- Microsoft partners with Indian government’s think tank, NITI Aayog, to bring AI to the masses October 15, 2018
- How-to: All about hidden files on Windows 10, and how to unhide them October 15, 2018
- Windows 10 news recap: Microsoft Store preparing for Windows Core OS apps, Feedback Hub gets changes following multiple bugs, and more October 14, 2018
Is Microsoft setting up a whale of a 2015 second half?
By Kip Kniskern in Commentary
October 29th, 2014 at 11:46 am