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Microsoft unveils ‘Microsoft Search’ for their Office 365 customers

By AyushVij@TWCN |

Microsoft has announced Microsoft Search. Microsoft Search is a unified search platform that will allow the enterprise customers to search for anything across their organization from anywhere. This includes Office Apps, Bing.com as well as Windows. It is powered by Microsoft Graph […]

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Bing update brings Visual Search, Math Solver and more

By AyushVij@TWCN |

The Bing team at Microsoft has been on their toes on making Bing a better search engine than its competition and shown an excellent growth. Every month, the team releases some major features for their search engine that makes it […]

Windows 10 ‘warns’ users to use Edge instead of other browsers

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

It appears Microsoft has come up with a new trick to convince Windows 10 users to use Microsoft Edge instead of rival browsers from Google, Mozilla, etc. This inference rests on the premise that the new Insider Build 17744 for […]

Microsoft makes its Office 365 consumer subscriptions more attractive

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

There’s good news for Office 365 subscribers. Coming October 2nd, 2018, Microsoft will remove the install limit on devices. Moreover, the company will add a greater number of users permissible under a single Office 365 Home plan without charging any […]

Windows 10 stable users seeing Insider Build notifications

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

Soon after the release of Windows 10 Insider Fast ring build 17751, there was a bit of outrage over a notification prompting users to update their Windows 10 device. Why? The toast notification for Windows 10 Insider Update wasn’t just […]

Windows 10 users will soon be able to login using Google account

By MahitHuilgol@TWC |

Until now Windows 10 users had to compulsorily login to their systems by using Microsoft credentials or by using a local username and password. This is set to change as Microsoft is likely to allow Windows 10 users to log […]

Xbox Customer Support gets new features and capabilities

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Team Xbox has come up with some new features and functionality improvements for the gamers. These new features reportedly will bring new ways to enjoy the gameplay and better ways to connect with friends. Xbox Customer Support The newly announced […]

Microsoft announces Bing Spotlight

By AyushVij@TWCN |

Microsoft looks to be hard at work to make Bing better than its competitions. A few weeks ago, we reported that Bing was updated with a whole lot of consumer-focused features. And now today, they highlighted another feature focused on […]

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Skype for Business is now a central part of Microsoft Teams

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

Microsoft Teams in its current form is quite capable, and since it’s free, it now has a leg up on several of its competitors. But that’s not the end of the road because Teams have become much better than before […]

Microsoft’s desi chatbot Ruuh gets her dedicated website

By AyushVij@TWCN |

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 […]

Cortana and Alexa integration is now live in the United States

By AyushVij@TWCN |

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 |

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 […]

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Microsoft Pay now supports Masterpass by Mastercard for better payment

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

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 |

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 |

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 […]

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

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

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 […]

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Microsoft Outlook introduces Suggested Reply for emails

By MahitHuilgol@TWC |

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 |

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 |

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 […]

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Microsoft announces the Windows Insider Women in Computing Award

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 […]

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PowerShell Core for Linux is now available as a Snap package

By AyushVij@TWCN |

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, […]

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Microsoft announces Identity Bounty Program

By AyushVij@TWCN |

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 |

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 |

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 […]