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16:03 13.11.2015

Coming Soon: Bing Ads Editor For Mac

At a Bing Ads event yesterday at Microsoft, Bing announced they are finally brining a desktop editor to Macs for Bing Ads. The expected release date is early summer of 2016, which is some way off...... →

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05:46 13.11.2015

Microsoft open-sources DMTK, a distributed machine learning library

Microsoft today announced the release of a new open-source machine learning toolkit that goes by the name DMTK. The toolkit contains a framework for training models on multiple servers, a topic modeling algorithm, and a word-embedding algorithm for natural language processing. It’s all out on GitHub under an MIT license. Using these tools, developers can […]... →

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03:15 13.11.2015

Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 in October thanks to Halo

Master Chief delivered. Microsoft hasn’t had many wins this year when going head-to-head with Sony, but its biggest franchise still has the power to help it finish the fight. Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4 in October according to NPD data shared with GamesBeat by Microsoft. The company provided us with the following statement from […]... →

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23:38 12.11.2015

Bing’s new tool explains why your site isn’t mobile friendly

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the Bing Mobile Friendliness Test Tool, a simple service that can analyze a website and tell you if it’s mobile-friendly based on the Microsoft Bing search engine’s standards and, if it’s not, what’s wrong with it. Bing began marking websites as mobile friendly in search results earlier in […]... →

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22:31 12.11.2015

Microsoft’s time-lapse app Hyperlapse Pro launches on the Mac for $50

Microsoft today announced the release of the Hyperlapse Pro time-lapse video application for Mac. It’s available now from the Microsoft Store for $49.99. Hyperlapse is technology that initially came out of Microsoft Research last year as a way to bring stabilize first-person video in order to make a great-looking time-lapse footage. It went from experiment […]... →

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21:19 12.11.2015

Microsoft’s HoloLens gets its first augmented-reality rival: Asus

Microsoft is not the only company moving into the augmented-reality hardware space. Asus, one of the world’s largest computer-hardware manufacturers, revealed that it is building its own HoloLens-style device. This headset “should” launch next year, Asus chief executive Jerry Shen said during a conference call with investors (via CNET). This will make Asus, which most people […]... →

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21:00 12.11.2015

OneNote gets embedded videos on desktop, audio recordings on iOS, and a floating badge on Android

Microsoft today announced a slew of improvements to its OneNote apps. The desktop and mobile versions, and even the online service, are getting new features. First up, the desktop apps (that’s Windows and Mac) have gained support for embedded videos. OneNote for Windows and Mac now has a dedicated video button for, well, inserting videos. […]... →

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17:58 12.11.2015

Microsoft rolls out first major Windows 10 update for PCs and tablets

Microsoft today released the first major update to Windows 10 on PCs and tablets. At the same time, Microsoft says the update means the company “can confidently recommend Windows 10 deployment to whole organizations.” Windows 10 users will receive the November update, as Microsoft is calling this release, according to their Windows Update settings. Windows […]... →

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17:00 12.11.2015

Here’s What Is Next For Windows 10

Microsoft has a big Windows 10 boost out today. The company is calling it the “first major update” to Windows 10 for both normal PCs, and tablets. At its most basic, Microsoft wants to better position Windows 10 — its new operating system — for both consumers and enterprise clients. If it fails to find adoption with either, the success of the recently released code… Read More... →

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10:52 12.11.2015

Uber signs global multi-year deal with TomTom for maps and traffic data

Uber announced Thursday that it’s signed a global multi-year deal with TomTom, the world-famous Dutch navigation and mapping company, which will provide the ridehailing service with its maps and traffic data within the Uber driver app. The amount the deal is worth has not been disclosed. Earlier this year, Uber acquired part of Microsoft’s maps business […]... →

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03:00 12.11.2015

How to get the New Xbox One Experience tonight

Microsoft is rolling out the biggest Xbox One update ever tonight, so it’s time to ensure your console is ready to get it. We’ve already given you a preview of the New Xbox One Experience (NXOE), but it’s about time for you to get your hands on it as well. Microsoft announced that it will […]... →

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21:49 11.11.2015

Yahoo launches redesigned search results exclusively for U.S. Firefox users

Yahoo today announced that it has launched an exclusive new user interface for people using its search engine with the Mozilla Firefox browser in the U.S. The deal is exclusive, so it’s not showing up in Yahoo searches in, say, the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browsers. “We saw a unique opportunity to reinvent the […]... →

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21:18 11.11.2015

Xbox Live is down intermittently and preventing Fallout 4 players from uploading screenshots

Microsoft is aware that Xbox Live is experiencing problems. The company has confirmed what dozens of people on social media are complaining about, Xbox Live is not functioning as normal. This is affecting both Xbox One and Xbox 360, and it is preventing many people from signing into Xbox Live. Other gamers are noting that […]... →

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20:00 11.11.2015

Box releases its file-sharing app for Windows 10

Box, a cloud file-syncing and sharing software company, today announced that its app for Windows 10 is now available for anyone to use. Box first said back in April that it was working with Microsoft to build this new app. Now it is out in the Windows Store. The new app shows Box files in […]... →

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14:00 11.11.2015

Microsoft launches Project Oxford APIs for face tracking, emotion, speaker recognition, spell checking

Microsoft today announced several updates to its Project Oxford portfolio of machine learning tools aimed at developers. Microsoft has begun a public beta for a new application programming interface (API) that can identify emotions as expressed on a person’s face in a still image. The new API can detect anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, […]... →

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13:36 11.11.2015

Microsoft Seeks To Dispel Cloud Mistrust In Europe With German Trustee Model

Microsoft has moved to dispel European mistrust of U.S.-operated cloud services by announcing a plan to offer cloud services, including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online, from data centers in Germany that are also operated by a third party company — in a so called trustee mo Read More... →

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21:05 09.11.2015

Microsoft’s latest facial recognition project rates your moustache

Microsoft’s new facial recognition tool is out to judge your facial hair. The machine learning-based project comes just in time for Movember. The website, called MyMoustache.net, is designed to guess a person’s beard length. Facial hair is reviewed and rated as either ‘nostache’, ‘getting there’, and ‘ultimate mo.’ Here’s how Microsoft describes the project: We started with a […]... →

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17:34 09.11.2015

Microsoft Goes For Another Israeli Security Firm Buying Secure Islands

Israel is a small country with a thriving security startup industry, and Microsoft appears to be have a taste for them. Today it announced an agreement to buy Secure Islands, its third Israeli security firm in the last year. While Microsoft did not reveal a specific price, various reports peg the deal at between $77 million and $150 million. Microsoft made the announcement official in a… Read More... →

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16:26 09.11.2015

Microsoft confirms acquisition of Israel-based cyber security firm Secure Islands

Following rumors a few weeks back that Microsoft was gearing up to acquire Israel-based security company Secure Islands for $150 million, Microsoft has now confirmed the deal that will see Secure Islands’ technology integrated into Microsoft’s Azure Rights Management Service. Neither company has announced how much the deal is worth. Today’s news marks Microsoft’s fifth […]... →

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23:22 06.11.2015

Peggy Johnson, Microsoft’s Deal Boss, On Reaching Silicon Valley

If you had a few dozen billion dollars, an appetite to cut deals and a desire to change your image a few states away, how would you go about it? That is a question Microsoft is trying to answer. Cash-rich, profitable and sporting new leadership, the company wants to change its image in Silicon Valley. Long ensconced in the Pacific Northwest, the company has boosted its focus on the Bay Area. Read More... →

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