While an Andromeda folding phone might seem like the perfect thing for Microsoft in 2019, it may trial a dual-screen notebook first.
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Bank of America kills Windows 10 app sooner than expected
The end of the banking app came before the end of July and it does not bode well for the state of the Windows 10 app market.
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Long-awaited iTunes app for Windows 10 has arrived
Finally, Surface Laptop users can sync their iPhones and get software updates for them and just use iTunes. This has been nearly a year in the making.
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Who gets an iPhone X for Christmas? | #PNWeekly 284 (LIVE at 3p ET)
The ghosts of iPhones past, present and future make the rounds in our show today. From Secret Santas to batteries big and small, this is gonna be fun.
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Microsoft is having none of cheeky Google Chrome Windows app
The Google Chrome app on the Windows Store was nothing but a sham in Microsoft's eyes. What's up with the fake browser from the real company?
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iTunes app for Windows 10 (and Windows 10 S) delayed indefinitely
The announcement that an iTunes app would be coming to Windows 10 made with the introduction of the Windows 10 S has come to sad trombones.
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Relax, people, Microsoft Paint isn’t dead or dying, it’s just being relocated
Who doesn't love the classic, iconic Microsoft Paint app? For a little while there, it seemed like Redmond abandoned it, but that's not quite the case.
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Windows 10 and 10 S PC users across 60 countries can now get Spotify from official Windows Store
There's finally a dedicated Spotify app available for free Windows Store downloads on compatible Windows 10 and 10 S computers.
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Christmas comes early for music fans, with nine free holiday albums from Microsoft
The holiday spirit is strong with Microsoft, as Surface Pro 4-headlined “12 Days of Deals” will begin on Monday, just as various Cyber Monday leftovers are set to expire. Meanwhile, today only, i.e. until 11:59 p.m. PT on December 2, or “while supplies last”, US Windows Store visitors can nab a boatload of premium Christmas audio content free of charge.
All you technically need to do is present a valid Groove Music Pass before enjoying your complimentary downloads, or simpler and cheaper yet, sign up now for a free 30-day trial. That’s technically, because it seems the restriction can be circumvented if you really don’t want to try out Redmond’s digital music streaming service, formerly dubbed Xbox and Zune Music.
As for exactly what you’re getting, it’s a bona fide holiday must-have for tree decorators, stocking stuffers, and even heart-growing Grinch copycats. In fact, you can probably put the original soundtrack of Boris Karloff’s 1966 animated classic “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” at the top of your free holiday playlist.
Follow that up with Justin Bieber’s retro and modern “Under the Mistletoe, Deluxe Edition” album mix, Ariana Grande’s first holiday EP, “Christmas Kisses”, “A Mary Christmas” from Mary J. Blige, The Jackson 5’s “Ultimate Christmas Collection”, Rod Stewart’s “Merry Christmas, Baby” deluxe variant, the remastered and expanded “A Charlie Brown Christmas” soundtrack, “A Motown Christmas”, and last but not least, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Dreams of Fireflies.”
In total, that’s nine great albums, typically worth a combined $80 or so, available for free on Windows PCs and phones, iOS, Android devices and more.
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Microsoft removed 90,000 apps without age rating from Windows Mobile Store
No time is a good time to remove nearly 100,000 apps from your mobile apps store in Italy. The move does not help the Windows 10 Mobile app gap at all, but given that operating system simply isn’t a priority at this time, we can probably say that Microsoft is driving age ratings for apps on principle.It has been doing so since last month and has been urging developers to take an International Age Ratings Coalition ...
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Microsoft could be taking a cue from Google Play with new Windows Store design
App discovery can make or break a platform, whether mobile or desktop, and the best operating system in the world won’t do your users much good if they find themselves struggling to get the software they want. While part of that issue is simply making the right apps available in the first place, how these apps are presented to users can be just as critical: are apps being displayed in an attractive manner, encouraging users to give them a shot, and are the right tools available to convert casual app-browsing into actual downloads? Microsoft’s reportedly considering some tweaks ...
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Windows Store carrier billing comes as Microsoft makes deal with Boku
Why pay now when you can wait until you have to pay everything else? Okay, besides this being the recipe to another subprime mortgage crisis, we’re actually not technically talking about credit. If you plan on grabbing a few apps or anything else from the Windows Store for your Windows 10 device, if you’re on Sprint, you can wait until your monthly bill comes up to pay for that ...
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Did you notice Microsoft recently hiked Windows Store app prices in some markets?
For the first time in several years, Microsoft has a whole lot going for it, on more fronts than ever, as Windows 10 desktop adoption continues to rise, the mobile version looks better and better in pre-release form, and the ingenious Surface Book seems to have
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