Microsoft Archive
01 Apr 2015
Samsung’s going to preinstall Microsoft Office on select Android tablets
Samsung’s going to preinstall Microsoft Office on select Android tablets samsung and Microsoft settled their Android royalties lawsuitlast month and now they’re really getting cozy. In the near future, you’ll find Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive and Skype preinstalled on “select Android tablets” from the South Korean manufacturer. The packages will start shipping in the
01 Apr 2015
Microsoft releases developer tools for building Windows 10 universal apps
Microsoft releases developer tools for building Windows 10 universal apps crosoft has today made available a set of tools that allow developers to get started building apps for the Windows 10 Universal App platform. The company has made available the tools, alongside sample code for universal apps. This means developers can start building apps that
01 Apr 2015
Adobe is contributing to Microsoft’s Spartan browser
Adobe is contributing to Microsoft’s Spartan browser Microsoft announced today that Adobe is contributing to Project Spartan in Windows 10, bringing improvements in the areas of layout, typography, motion and graphic design. Adobe’s Web Platform Team provided its first contribution in the latest build of Windows 10, supplying a feature for CSS gradient midpoints. It allows
01 Apr 2015
Play ‘choose your own adventure’ on Twitter
Play ‘choose your own adventure’ on Twitter When I was a kid, I loved spending hours poring through Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasybooks. The idea that you get to dictate what happens with the protagonist and are responsible for their success or failure really grabbed me, as it did anyone who got into
01 Apr 2015
Twitter launches friend-finding and two-factor verification for Digits
Twitter launches friend-finding and two-factor verification for Digits If you’re a developer usingTwitter’s Digits to sign users up for your app or service, get ready to offer a more secure log-in and a way for users to quickly find their friends. Today Digits introduced friend-finding and two-factor verification to the service. Friend-finding scans the user’s
01 Apr 2015
WhatsApp for Android now allows all users to make voice calls, iOS coming soon
WhatsApp for Android now allows all users to make voice calls, iOS coming soon If you’ve been wondering when, oh when, someone will ring you via WhatsApp so you’ll get its new voice calling feature, you won’t have to sit by the phone any longer. Updating to WhatsApp version 2.12.5 via Google Play does
01 Apr 2015
Twitter launches Partner Audience, its new ad-targeting feature based on user behaviors
Twitter launches Partner Audience, its new ad-targeting feature based on user behaviors Annoyed by those promoted tweets on your Twitter feed? Hopefully, Twitter will make these ads more relevant to you in the near future. Today, the company released Partner Audience, a new ad-targeting feature to let publishers select intended demographics such as “cereal buyers” and
01 Apr 2015
How to bail out of noisy Twitter conversations using mute
How to bail out of noisy Twitter conversations using mute While you can drop out of aTwitter group DM, you’re still stuck in any public Twitter conversation that include your user name. This phenom is also referred to as a canoe (because they’re long boats filled with people?). Sometimes these conversations go for hours – even
01 Apr 2015
Twitter may bring autoplaying video ads to your timeline
Twitter may bring autoplaying video ads to your timeline IT seems like everyone wants to shove autoplaying videos in your face and now Twitter wants to join the ranks of Facebook and Instagram in the fight for your eyeballs. According to Advertising Age, Twitter is now testing video advertisements that automatically play in your feed.
31 Mar 2015
Windows 10 will make dual booting harder by requiring UEFI Secure Boot
Windows 10 will make dual booting harder by requiring UEFI Secure Boot Once again, Microsoft is striking fear into the hearts of dual booters by bringing back the the concept of UEFI. For those who forgot this was a big deal with Windows 8. Back in the day, in order for hardware manufacturers to get