Microsoft offers ad-free Bing for the classroom to battle Google
Microsoft on Wednesday opened a new front against the world's No 1 search provider by piloting an ad-free offering for educational users of Bing, its search engine that for years has trailed Google. Under the free program called "Bing for Schools …
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Microsoft unveils 23 launch titles for Xbox One
Microsoft's next video game console will hit stores with 23 titles when it makes its debut in November. The company unveiled the launch lineup for Xbox One ahead of the Gamescom video game industry event in Germany. Among them are familiar franchise, …
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PS4 launch: Sony and Microsoft kick off console wars in November
Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One in May, its first new gaming console in eight years, marking its strongest push so far to dominate consumers' living rooms with an array of exclusive media content. Microsoft Europe's vice-president of interactive …
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Microsoft updates Windows Phone App Studio as DIY developer projects skyrocket
Microsoft is updating the recently launched beta of Windows Phone App Studio to improve performance and scalability after the new app development tool crossed 55,000 active projects. The hosted service was launched two weeks ago in a bid by Microsoft …
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Redmond abandons Microsoft Tag. Where does QR Code go from here?
Yesterday Microsoft made the not-so-surprising announcement that it would no longer be supporting its Microsoft Tag system. Rest easy, all you Microsoft Tag fanatics out there— the technology will continue to live on in the hands of a company called …
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Windows NT: Remember Microsoft's almost perfect 20-year-old?
For anyone old enough to remember the OS wars of 1990 to 1995, Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP are still "NT", no matter what the Microsoft marketing department calls it. NT, first released in 1993, really has four phases in its history: the FUD phase, before …
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