Posts under Microsoft category

Microsoft’s desi chatbot Ruuh gets her dedicated website

By AyushVij@TWCN | August 20, 2018

It has been a while since Quarter 1 of 2017 when Ruuh was born. For those who do not know, Ruuh is Microsoft’s own AI chatbot. It is based in India and is often dubbed as a Desi chatbot or Ruuh – Your next Best […]

Microsoft’s AI Challenge is an open invitation for groundbreaking innovations

By AnandKhanse@TWC | August 18, 2018

It all begins with an idea. In the advent of human mankind, idea has always been a pathway to greater things. More than often we lack the conviction to execute the ideas because we don’t strongly believe in them or […]

Cortana and Alexa integration is now live in the United States

By AyushVij@TWCN | August 16, 2018

Microsoft and Amazon in a partnership announced in last fall that they will be integrating Cortana and Alexa. This integration would range from PCs, Smart Speakers, IoT and more. The main motto of this integration was the fact that it […]

Microsoft Showcase School Program throws open nominations for educators

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | August 8, 2018

Microsoft has always been making efforts to improve education and introduce new and intuitive methods for children to learn. The company has also awarded school leaders who are innovative and accomplish great things. In order to bring the best out […]

Microsoft Pay now supports Masterpass by Mastercard for better payment

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN | August 8, 2018

Most shoppers on the web have no idea that Microsoft Pay exists. It’s a service that aims to deliver faster checkouts and security for consumers online or when buying goods from supported stores offline. Several merchants have already taken advantage […]

Microsoft Surface Book 2 and Surface Laptop launched in India

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | August 8, 2018

Microsoft finally introduced the Surface Book 2 in India. The Surface Book 2 is touted as the fastest device in the Surface range and is aimed at offering high-end computing without compromising on the form factor. Alongside the Surface Book […]

Skype Classic discontinuation deadline extended

By AyushVij@TWCN | August 8, 2018

Microsoft recently announced the availability of Skype 8 for Skype users on all platforms. With this,  they also announced that the old Skype Classic Win32 app for Windows PCs will also be discontinued. That classic Skype app is still on […]

Bing gets updated and gains a whole lot of consumer focused features

By AyushVij@TWCN | August 6, 2018

Bing is proving to be good business for Microsoft even when it comes to competing with Google who is leading the market way ahead than others. But this does not stop Microsoft from minting money from Bing. It grew by […]

Microsoft Surface Go now shipping at a base price starting $399

By HemantSaxena@TWCN | August 3, 2018

Microsoft has come up with an affordable variant of the Surface device – Microsoft Surface Go. It combines both, laptop performance, tablet portability and ships at a base price of $399. In today’s fast-paced existence, many of us play different […]

Microsoft Outlook introduces Suggested Reply for emails

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | August 3, 2018

In April this year, Microsoft announced new AI backed updates for the Office 365 suite of applications. The desktop and the mobile versions of the apps got the update. As one might have noticed Microsoft has been striving hard to […]

Meet Charts 3D, Microsoft Garage’s latest spin on 3D Charts

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | August 2, 2018

Microsoft Garage has been the treasure cove of innovation. The impromptu platform by Microsoft has been helping its employees come up with innovative and outlandish ideas that often end up as a core Microsoft offering. Microsoft Garage has once again […]

NVIDIA GPU Cloud now supports Microsoft Azure

By AyushVij@TWCN | August 1, 2018

Today, NVIDIA has announced that the NVIDIA GPU Cloud now supports Microsoft Azure. This means that the developers can optimize their AI and HPC workflows with the help of this powerful software that is optimized for these supported GPUs. This […]

Microsoft announces the Windows Insider Women in Computing Award

By AnandKhanse@TWC | July 26, 2018

Despite facing gender-based discrimination earlier, women all around the world have achieved great progress and made some invaluable contributions in diverse fields. Noticing this, and the growing trend of women leading expeditions in the world and technology, Microsoft has taken […]

MSIX Packaging Tool by Microsoft now available in the Microsoft Store

By AyushVij@TWCN | July 26, 2018

Microsoft today announced that the MSIX Packaging Tool is now available in the Microsoft Store. It is worth noting that this is a Preview version and hence some bugs are expected. At Build 2018, Microsoft announced the Support for MSIX […]

System Center 1807 rolled out

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | July 25, 2018

Microsoft had announced a semi-annual release cadence to System Center at the beginning of this year. Keeping up with the semi-annual tradition Microsoft has now announced System Center 1807. The latest release is an update release and not a full […]

Microsoft launches Quantum Katas to teach Q# programming

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | July 24, 2018

Github is one of the most popular open source code repositories. Microsoft recently acquired Github and this is expected to fuel the company’s open source ambition. This time around let us take a look at some super useful tutorials that […]

PowerShell Core for Linux is now available as a Snap package

By AyushVij@TWCN | July 21, 2018

Microsoft announced PowerShell Core to push the boundaries further in such a way that the language is available for everyone no matter where they are from or what platform they work on. Hence, they made PowerShell Core of Windows 10, […]

Microsoft announces Identity Bounty Program

By AyushVij@TWCN | July 19, 2018

Digital identity is referred to as the key to accessing enterprise applications and services across the Internet. Microsoft is all into this business. With the services like Microsoft Account for the consumers and Azure Active Directory for the enterprise, Microsoft […]

Microsoft to kill classic Skype; Launces new Skype 8 app

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | July 17, 2018

Skype’s latest redesign last year didn’t go well with many users and finally, the company decided to tone it down. This time around Microsoft has announced Skype with a ton of new features and improvements across all platforms including Desktop. […]

Microsoft announces its all new Surface Go

By AyushVij@TWCN | July 11, 2018

Microsoft just announced an all-new Surface device. This is a 2-in-1 convertible just like the Surface Pro line up but is far more affordable and targets a whole new segment of audiences. Microsoft has named it the Surface Go. Microsoft calls […]

Microsoft’s Facial Recognition Technology is now better with skin tones and genders

By AyushVij@TWCN | June 27, 2018

Microsoft has recently announced that it has updated its facial recognition technology. With this update, the AI can now recognize different genders and skin tones across all the human beings. Earlier, the AI used to perform the best for Men […]

GiHub Education is now available for schools for free

By AyushVij@TWCN | June 22, 2018

Last week, Microsoft announced that they will be acquiring the open-source hosting giant GitHub. While the acquisition process of this code sharing and collaboration platform is being completed, they have today announced the general availability of a new program called […]

Microsoft will end staff support for these product support forums

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN | June 11, 2018

Microsoft is readying itself to make some big changes to its product support forums, and several folks could be affected. The plan is to remove technical support for quite a few of its Community support forums, an everything will commence […]

Microsoft announces Windows Collaboration Displays and Windows 10 IoT Core Services

By AyushVij@TWCN | June 7, 2018

In Taipei at Computex 2018, we are seeing many devices and software innovations coming to life with new announcements every day. Today Microsoft took the stage and they announced Windows Collaboration Displays and Windows 10 IoT Core Services. Windows Collaboration Displays Windows Collaboration […]

Avast SafePrice extension arrives for Microsoft Edge & Google Chrome

By AyushVij@TWCN | June 6, 2018

Avast not only helps you keep your computer away from exploits with their Antivirus program but also helps you save money. They do it with their Avast SafePrice service. They own a huge database of verified and valid online shops, […]

Microsoft acquires GitHub, the world’s largest code repository in a $7.5 billion deal

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | June 5, 2018

GitHub needs no introduction. The world’s largest code repository is acquired by Microsoft. The GitHub acquisition stacks up as the second such big deal after Satya Nadella took reigns of Microsoft in 2015. As part of the deal, Microsoft is […]

Microsoft’s cloud focus helps it to surpass Alphabet’s market cap

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN | June 4, 2018

Microsoft and Alphabet are big rivals in the technology industry, this despite Microsoft being the older of the two. There was a time when Alphabet was just Google, and in terms of market cap, Google was way behind. As time […]

Microsoft Edge for iPhones and iPads lets you read books from the Microsoft Store now

By AyushVij@TWCN | May 31, 2018

Microsoft last year released Edge browser for iPhones, iPads and Android devices. This was a big release in terms of their cross-platform strategy. This Microsoft Edge team is being led by one of the well known and experienced senior at […]

Battlefield 1943 is the next big title to come to Xbox One Backward Compatibility

By AyushVij@TWCN | May 26, 2018

With the release of the all-new experience for Xbox powered by Windows 10, Microsoft also announced a feature called Backward Compatibility. With this feature, the games, and software that was meant to be run on the new Xbox experience. This […]