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Microsoft’s Xbox Live now has 48 million active users

With its Q2 2016 (fiscal year) earnings report, Microsoft revealed some interesting stats about Xbox Live. The company announced that Xbox Live’s monthly active users grew by 30% YoY. The software...

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Office 365 now has 20.6 million subscribers

Microsoft today announced its earnings for Q2 2016 (fiscal year). Microsoft announced that the revenue from Surface increased by 29%, and Azure revenue grew by 140% too. Alongside Surface and Azure,...

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Microsoft’s search advertising revenue sees an impressive growth thanks to...

Microsoft today announced its Q2 2016 (fiscal year) earnings. The company announced an increase in revenue for Office, Surface, Azure and decrease in its Phone business. Alongside those numbers,...

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Microsoft’s Windows licensing revenue decreased by 5%

Microsoft today announced a decline in revenue for Windows OEM licensing. The company announced a 5% decline in Windows OEM revenue (in constant currency): Windows OEM Pro declined 6%, ahead of the...

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Microsoft’s Q2 2016 Earnings: Azure revenue grew 140% in constant currency

Microsoft released its earnings for Q2 2016 (fiscal year). Overall, the numbers from the company’s Q2 2016 earnings report is looking very good — for example, Surface’s revenue increased by 29%, search...

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Microsoft Selfie App Updated With Support For Selfie Stick

Microsoft recently released a new update for its Selfie app for iOS. With the latest update, Microsoft has added support for selfie sticks. Here’s the full changelog for version 2.1.0: 1.Be compatible...

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Outlook For Android Updated With The Ability To Search Company Address Book

Microsoft recently updated their Outlook app for Android with the ability to search company address book from the people tab. Can’t remember your colleagues email address? Exchange and Office 365 users...

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Microsoft says it is still working on Surface Pro 4, Surface Book improper...

Microsoft issued the January 2016 firmware updates for the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book this week. As you may have noticed, the updates don’t provide a fix for the infamous improper sleep and...

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Sony Announces A New USB Type-C Drive

Sony recently announced the new CA1-series portable storage device that offers the newest USB standard Type-C and A, combining up to 130MB/s transfer speed (read). This new USB is guaranteed to cover...

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Microsoft is experiencing “exceptional demand” for the Surface Pro 4

Microsoft’s Surface has been growing pretty well in the last few years. The company generated $1.3 billion in revenue from its Surface business in Q2 2016 (Fiscal Year)- that’s up from 1.1 billion YoY....

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US Department of Defense to upgrade 4 million seats to Windows 10

Windows 10 is currently running on more than 200 million active devices worldwide. However, only about 22 million enterprise devices are running Windows 10, which really isn’t that great. Today,...

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Microsoft’s Surface devices are now approved for the U.S. Department of Defense

Microsoft today announced that the U.S Department of Defense (aka DoD) will be upgrading 4 million machines to Windows 10 within a year. Additionally, the company also announced that its Surface...

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Meet Meta Vision, a Competition to Microsoft’s HoloLens

The HoloLens, Microsoft’s augmented reality headset has a new competition. It’s called the Meta Vision, and its first images  have surfaced on the Web, courtesy of Robert Scoble. Meron Gribetz, the...

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You can now use Gmail’s best features with your Outlook account on mobile

Back in 2015, Google allowed users to use their Outlook.com email (or other email services) on the Gmail app for Android. Today, the company is introducing a new feature called Gmailify which will...

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Wunderlist Talks About The New Wunderlist Add-in For Outlook

Wunderlist team worked closely with the Outlook team to bring you a simple way of getting your tasks out of your inbox and into your to-do lists. How it works? When you come across an email that’s more...

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Microsoft Supports Apple In Fight With FBI

Recently, the United States government has demanded Apple to build a backdoor to the iPhone so that they can get access to the data from devices used by the criminals. Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote a public...

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Microsoft Testing Outlook.com Premium With Custom Domain Support

Microsoft is currently testing Outlook.com Premium service. Outlook.com Premium has nothing to do with the current Ad-free Outlook.com which you can get for $19.95 USD a year. The Outlook.com Premium...

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Windows 10 build 14267 released to Insiders

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 build for Insiders in the first program. The company today released build 14267, which isn’t a big update from build 14257. The latest build does not introduce...

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Known Issues And Bug Fixes In Windows 10 Build 14267

Microsoft today released Windows 10 Build 14267 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. This build includes several new features, read about them here. It includes some bug fixes and a known issue. Find...

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Windows 10 Build 14267 screenshots

Microsoft released Windows 10 Build 14267 to Insiders in the Fast ring just about 1 hour ago. The latest build of Windows 10 introduces a few new features and improvements, mostly for Microsoft Edge....

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