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
- Windows 10 19H1 build 18342 is now available for Fast Ring Insiders, here’s what’s new February 20, 2019
- New Xbox One 1904 build brings ability to restart console after holding down Xbox button February 20, 2019
- Microsoft’s new Office app for Windows 10 is now available for all users February 20, 2019
- Xbox and Paradox to allow user-created mods without pre-approval for the first time ever February 20, 2019
- Bing to require LegitScript certification for drug and alcohol addiction center ads February 20, 2019
- Microsoft remains quiet on future of VR on Xbox, frustrating game developers February 20, 2019
- Zombies invade PUBG in new mobile/ Resident Evil 2 event February 20, 2019
- Google Chrome gets Windows Mixed Reality support, available now for Canary testers February 20, 2019
- This third-party cable allows you to charge your Surface devices via USB-C February 20, 2019
- Alien: Isolation, The Walking Dead: Season 2 and more are coming to Xbox Game Pass to end February with a bang February 20, 2019
Is Microsoft setting up a whale of a 2015 second half?
By Kip Kniskern in Commentary
October 29th, 2014 at 11:46 am