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Microsoft seeks to lure e-sports players back with Halo 5
Canberra Times
Washington: A team of hundreds here was recently putting its final touches on a video game expected to be one of the biggest sellers of the holiday season. | The game, Halo 5: Guardians, will depict interstellar combat in new levels of graphical realism and offer new twists in multiplayer ...
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(photo: Creative Commons / Robert Scoble)
Microsoft&aposs; Investment In Uber Is A Head Scratcher
Forbes
Perhaps the answer is simply this: Microsoft is hoping Uber will use its cloud platform for its operations, giving it an instantly recognizable reference client around the world. ... ...
Microsoft fixes Windows 10 Store glitch
ZDNet
​It took a week, but Microsoft has fixed a Windows 10 Store issue that brought Windows Store app updates and downloads to a halt for a number of users. | ... ...
Microsoft tests app that will read you the news
IT World
Microsoft is quietly testing an app that seems designed for people who feel overwhelmed by the media’s endless stream of news stories and who wish they had a helper app that reads them article summaries. | The app, called NewsCast, hasn’t been fo...
Microsoft Word co-authoring arrives, care of OneDrive
PC World
One of the more handy features of Google Apps is its ability to allow multiple authors to work on a document at the same time. With Word 2016, you can now do that as well. | To be fair, co-authoring has been available in via Word 2016 and SharePoint ...
Microsoft tests app that will read you the news
PC World
Microsoft is quietly testing an app that seems designed for people who feel overwhelmed by the media’s endless stream of news stories and who wish they had a helper app that reads them article summaries. | The app, called NewsCast, hasn’t been fo...
Former Microsoft exec tapped to lead Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
The Business Journals
A former Microsoft executive has been named as the next CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. | Andrea Taylor spent more than eight years as the director of citizenship and public affairs, North America for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). | "The Bi...
No Tech Solutions for Poverty, Says Former Microsoft Researcher
Huffington Post
I founded Tiny Spark four years ago to investigate philanthropy, nonprofits and socially responsible companies. As a former Africa correspondent, I had seen with my own eyes how difficult is it to have lasting impact in places far from where we live ...
Free Windows 10 upgrade will have 'no financial impact' on Microsoft
IT World
When Microsoft announced that it would be offering consumers a free upgrade to Windows 10, it got a lot of people talking. After all, the company charged $199 per license for consumers to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional just six years ago. So clear...
Science
An artistic conception of the Jupiter-like exoplanet, 51 Eri b, seen in the near-infrared light that shows the hot layers deep in its atmosphere glowing through clouds.
(photo: SETI Institute / Danielle Futselaar & Franck Marchis)
Meet Baby Eridani, An Alien Jupiter — Could Its Solar System Be Hiding A Mimic Of Earth, Too?
The Inquisitr
Even more fascinating, the alien world’s neighborhood bears a striking architectural resemblance to our own, and if this solar system already has one planet that looks a lot like one of ours, perhaps it could have another. | The alien Jupiter has been called 51 Eridani b and is only about 20 million years old, BBC News reported. That sounds o...
Technology
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno addresses issues facing the Army and the nation during a news conference at the Pentagon, Aug. 12, 2015.
(photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Chuck Burden)
'Isis hacking division' publishes personal details of US targets online urging supporters to attack those listed
The Independent
A list of American “targets” – including the FBI and Nasa – has been listed online by a group calling itself the Islamic State hacking division. | Details of 1,400 mostly US military and government personnel were published in a spreadsheet online urging supporters of the group, also known as Isis, to attack those listed. | The spreadsheet r...



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