Microsoft has applied all kind of tricks -some of them quite dirty- to try to make Windows 10 its most succesful OS ever, but adoption rate quickly slowed down. The numbers are solid –300M active users at the moment- but not great, and this announcement is different from others. It’s different because you can see …
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Paul Thurrot reflects on the convertible/detachable market: One might argue, correctly, that the iPad Pro is not exactly a full-featured productivity machine today. But the key word in that sentence is “today.” Apple will evolve the iPad Pro and improve things on the productivity side of things. But I don’t see how Microsoft or any …
Not a single mention. That’s what we had at the Build 2016 keynote from Microsoft a few minutes ago when we tried to get some news from the Windows 10 Mobile operating system. We’ve got lots of other news: the promising rise of the conversational bot (either with voice or with text), the transformation of …
Microsoft has announced its support for Cross-Network Play, allowing Xbox owners to play games with anyone on PC or PlayStation. First, the caveats – this… Usually you buy your console based on what your friends already have. Until now that was the only way you could be sure you would enjoy the game experience with …
UWP first step towards “locking down the consumer PC ecosystem,” says Tim Sweeney. Microsoft and its universal platform goes beyond using your smartphone as your PC. It’s all about the one thing businesses want more than anything: control. That’s what Apple has accomplished with its App Store, and what Google has accomplished with Google Play. …
I’ve been a Xbox One user since its debut, but I’m the minority here in Spain, a country devoted to the PS4. It’s hard to defend that minor position with friends -not many can play along with me- but we can for sure defend it with facts. One of the latest ones comes from the …
The Windows Bridge for Android (Project Astoria) is dead. Microsoft has announced that on a new post on the Windows blog in which they explain that apparently the feedback from developers was critical to this decision We also announced the Windows Bridge for Android (project “Astoria”) at Build last year, and some of you …
Last year Canonical and bq launched the first smartphone based on Ubuntu. Now they will launch the first tablet that is based on the new Ubuntu convergent platform. This device can act as a tablet, but also will act “like a full-blown PC when you connect a keyboard, mouse and display to it“. I’ve already …
Paul Thurrot throws new adoption data for Windows 10, which is now active on 200 million devices around the globe. Thurrot is a little bit overoptimistic with comparisons with Windows 7: Despite the availability of Windows 10 on new device types, the average monthly usage gain over the past quarter was 31.25 million units per …
Microsoft is upping the prices of its Surface Hub videoconferencing systems by $2,000 and pushing back the shipment date from January 1 to Q1 of 2016. So not only they delay Surface Hub: they will charge even more money for those expensive videoconference solutions. There are certainly cheaper options for that kind of business device, …