Microsoft

If you’re a Windows Insider and an Office Insider, then Microsoft has something pretty special for you to try out today. The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17643 (Redstone 5) is now available to those who opted into the Skip Ahead branch. Most of us who use Office...

Microsoft has announced a major overhaul of the company’s structure which means Terry Myerson is leaving the company after 21 years. The re-org will see the Microsoft Windows and Devices Group will split into 2 new engineering units: Experiences & Devices and Cloud + AI after a slowing PC market...

The successor to Skype for Business and Yammer and Groups is Microsoft Teams and the services is maturing quickly. In February the Teams developers added many important new features like PSTN calling and voicemail on mobile for Enterprise Voice licensed customers. That’s interesting for those that are impacted by it, but...

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney is trialing Microsoft Teams. As part of a strategic plan to become “Australia’s global university,” the University says they seek out and test technologies to help simplify and extend collaboration—not only among students and faculty, but within organisational work groups, between...

Microsoft’s hardware division is continuing to iterate their way to a perfect form factor. The lineup now includes the Surface Pro, Surface Hub, Surface Studio, Surface Laptop and of course this, the Surface Book. In its second iteration, the Surface Book 2 addresses many of the feedback from the...

Some days are better than others. Today is one of the good ones. The Xbox One X arrived and ahead of a full review, I recorded an unboxing of what you get if you decide to buy Microsoft’s 4K HDR console. Microsoft have included a large number of games...

This morning during their E3 keynote, Microsoft confirmed the name for their next version of the Xbox console. The Xbox One X will be easily the most powerful (and expensive) console ever made and deliver something consoles never have before, 4K gaming. Unlike the Xbox One X, or the...

If you were hoping to buy a Surface Pro 5 this year, you’re out of luck. Instead, Microsoft are updating the Surface Pro and actually dropping the version number. ‘The new Surface Pro’ has the same hardware design as the Pro 4, but does have improved internals. Those upgraded...

Voice-activated speakers for your home seem to be the latest hardware craze after the success of Amazon’s Echo. The latest comes from speaker manufacturer Haman Kardon and is called ‘Invoke’. Its the first Cortana-enabled hardware outside Microsoft. As you’d expect from a premium speaker manufacturer, the Invoke offers premium 360...