Our coverage on all things Microsoft. Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, Microsoft is one of the world’s leading software and hardware companies. As of today, Microsoft distributes, licenses and supports a wide range of products related to consumer electronics and personal computers among which Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, as well as the video game console series Xbox.
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Learn to crunch numbers with Microsoft’s best programs for under $30
Data analysis isn’t magic. And while it’s definitely not simple, those numbers are tameable...as you can learn with the ...
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The ways people described computers in the 1990s are hilarious
In the 1990s, the internet was a hard-to-explain concept to people. Even though it's commonplace now, the idea of electronic ...
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Age of Mythology just got its first new expansion in 13 years
One of the best real-time strategy games ever just got a big update.
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Tempted to try Windows 10? New 'emulator' let's you do it without installing the OS
If you're an OS X user that's curious about Windows 10 -- or perhaps you're a Windows 7 or 8 user that keeps swatting away ...
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The Surface Book has an amazing feature no one's talking about: User upgradability
The Surface Book has one cool feature no-one is talking about: you can upgrade it to perform better by simply switching the ...
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Experts throw shade on Australia's $750M investment in IBM blockchain tech
The Australian government has awarded IBM with a lucrative $750 million contract to develop blockchain and other related ...
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The $24 billion chatbot industry sucks because it needs better AI
In 2014, WIRED would profile a “boring” company called Slack beginning a media and venture-based obsession with bringing ...
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Skype finally gets call recording feature
Only 15 years after it was launched
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Microsoft teases Xbox hardware reveal next month
Microsoft today hinted it could be showing off some fun new hardware at a major gaming event next month and be still, my ...
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No, Samsung will not be accepting cryptocurrency payments in the Baltics
Samsung has denied rumors about partnership with blockchain startup CopPay, claiming it won't be accepting cryptocurrency ...
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Big banks want to issue new blockchain bond on Ethereum, but there’s a catch
Even the World Bank isn’t immune to the hype: it wants a bank in Australia to issue the first bond managed completely via ...
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Thailand’s central bank will issue its own digital currency — but there’s a catch
The central bank of Thailand has revealed details of its new digital currency, developed using ledger technology built by ...
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Microsoft reportedly wants to rent out Xboxes to gamers for a monthly fee
Microsoft is prepping a subscription plan that will net US-based gamers an Xbox console, and access to Xbox Live and Xbox ...
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Nintendo wants you to play with your friends
With the upcoming releases of 'Super Smash Bros. Ultimate' and 'Super Mario Party,' Nintendo is making a big play for the ...
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Microsoft announces All Access, a sweet Xbox financing plan with a not-so-sweet catch
Xbox All Access is a new way for users to get their hands on a One S or One X for a low price, but it all depends on where ...
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Both Yahoo and AOL are scanning customer emails to attract advertisers
Oath, the advertising arm of Verizon -- which owns both Yahoo and AOL -- has been pitching advertisers a service that would ...
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Skype has yet another new design, but hasn't fixed its core problems
Skype is walking back its controversial Snapchat-esque redesign, but Microsoft hasn't addressed any problems the app had ...
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Full moon patents: Alphabet isn’t giving up on Google Glass
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...
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AR's success depends on perfecting input methods
There are challenges in inputting AR into an eyewear device and reworking the interaction between man and machine is only ...
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Microsoft's new Surface Headphones have 13 levels of noise cancellation
Microsoft had a jam-packed event today, announcing the Surface Studio 2, Surface Laptop 2, and Surface Pro 6. But it had ...
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Microsoft debuts Project xCloud for streaming games to PCs and phones
Microsoft today revealed Project xCloud, a game streaming service that would bring the company's games to multiple devices, ...
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How an employee screw-up made my company better at employee retention
In order to keep a start-up company’s momentum going, you have to be proactive and creative in retaining employees -- since ...
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Germany wants a global 'minimum tax' for tech giants' revenue
Germany's finance minister, Olaf Scholz finally supports global minumum tax on tech giants. France and Germany push for the ...
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Report: Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users
Microsoft collects and stores personal data about the behavior of individual users of its enterprise offerings on a large ...
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To achieve ethical AI, we need better training and boundaries
Autonomous decision-making systems are in place already today, including ones that support life-critical scenarios and travel. ...
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The best and worst gaming stories of 2018
2018 has been a year with some awesome games, and some not-so-awesome things happening in the gaming industry. Here are the ...
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Microsoft is reportedly building a Chromium-based browser to replace Edge
Microsoft is working on a replacement for its Edge browser - which is the default option in Windows 10 - that will use Google's ...
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Experts warn AI could hardwire sexism into our future
From Apple's Siri to Amazon's Alexa, voice recognition and AI assistants are typically female by default. Technology isn't ...
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Mixer may have found the secret sauce for paying streamers full-time
Mixer, Microsoft's game streaming service, has always played second fiddle to Twitch. But a new payment paradigm on Mixer ...
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TNW's favorite apps for Windows users in 2018
Microsoft's app store for Windows has become a fairly impressive library of software for users, and we want our readers to ...
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France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up
France hasn't given up on creating a tax on digital revenue to prevent the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and ...
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Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
Monopolies are bad.
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Microsoft just made 60,000 of its patents open source
In a move that might surprise a few people, Microsoft announced that it is joining (OIN) – and making its entire portfolio ...
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Microsoft Teams' new free plan looks like a better deal than Slack's
It's not secret Slack has dominated workplace communication among tech companies the last few years, but Microsoft began ...
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Microsoft Teams can now blur backgrounds during video calls, thanks to AI
Microsoft Teams now has a Background Blur feature for its video calls, so you no longer have to worry about the messy room ...
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TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018
You've heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still ...
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Microsoft Teams is growing ridiculously fast
Microsoft Teams will be the second-biggest chat app by 2020
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Microsoft confirms Edge will support Chrome extensions with Chromium switch
When Microsoft announced its Edge browser would be transitioning to the Chromium platform next year, I had one question: ...
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Microsoft launches its Clarity web analytics tool for A/B testing and visualizing user sessions
To help webmasters understand how visitors interact with their sites, Microsoft has launched its new Clarity analytics tool ...
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2018 proved that computer vision is the most powerful manifestation of AI
You probably use computer vision every day and don't even think about it. Enjoy checking out the latest Snapchat filters? That's ...
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Microsoft's Hummingbird app uses AI to deliver a personalized news feed
Microsoft has quietly released an AI-based news app called Hummingbird on Google Play and Apple’s App Store. It's currently ...
