Microsoft kills off some of Nokia's apps for Windows Phone
Microsoft announced Friday that it will be ceasing development on several apps Nokia developed for Windows Phone as the company streamlines the photo experience on Windows 10 Mobile.
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Microsoft will release its hackathon help tool to the world
Microsoft is planning to bring its internal tool for running hackathons to the public next year, starting by allowing a few select colleges to test drive it at their own events.
Microsoft acquires organizational analytics company VoloMetrix
Microsoft announced Thursday that it will be acquiring VoloMetrix, a company that provides analytics to help businesses better understand how their organization works.
Google's productivity suite updated with dictation, integrated search and more
Google rolled out a big set of updates to its productivity suite today aimed primarily at enhancing its capabilities for students and teachers.
Mozilla updates its Thimble online code editor to help teach Web programming
With students headed back to school, Mozilla has updated one of its tools to get kids interested in making websites.
Cortana packs her bags, heads to Windows Insiders in India, Japan and elsewhere
Windows Insiders in Japan, Australia, Canada and India will be getting a visit from Microsoft's virtual assistant soon as part of Microsoft's continued beta testing of new features for Windows 10.
VMworld 2015: Microsoft and VMware cozy up, forgoing past rivalry
Despite their years-long rivalry, Microsoft and VMware have teamed in a new partnership that's part of Microsoft's collaborative strategy shift.
Microsoft launches new tools for building Office add-ins
Microsoft released a new set of tools on Monday to help developers make slick-looking add-ins for Office apps, at a time when the company wants to boost the ecosystem of third-party applications and services that work with its productivity suite.
Samsung unveils its new circular Gear S2 smartwatches
Samsung showed off its latest foray into the smartwatch market today, announcing the new Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic --smartwatches with circular screens that run its Tizen software platform.
ITC rules Microsoft's phones don't infringe patents
The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Friday that Microsoft's mobile devices don't infringe on patents relating to wireless standards, reversing a previous determination in the case.
Microsoft may offer some Windows 10 patch notes to enterprises
Windows 10 Enterprise has been installed in about 1.5 million business devices in less than a month. Now Microsoft is considering how to best offer patch information to users of its new OS.
Despite Microsoft partnership, NFL leans on Amazon to store new stats data
Even though the league has agreed to use Microsoft technology in some instances, it's storing new data generated from real-time player tracking with AWS.
VMware updates desktop virtualization software for Mac and PC
VMware has released new versions of its desktop virtualization products with support for Windows 10 and more.
Microsoft tests SharePoint 2016 and enterprise cloud hybrid search
The beta software lets IT departments try out the latest features in SharePoint, while a new search feature lets users look up information across on-premises data and Office 365.
Microsoft starts public test of Cortana app for Android smartphones
Microsoft now lets anyone with an Android phone try out its app that brings the virtual assistant from Windows 10 to a non-Microsoft platform.