If you're a fan of the game Fortnite, you should know that Microsoft is preparing an Xbox One S Fortnite Special Edition bundle.
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Microsoft had a great March quarter, with Cloud, Surface, Office and LinkedIn revenue on the rise
Pretty much all of Microsoft's products and services reported substantial year-on-year hikes in January - March 2018 revenue, from Surface hardware to Xbox software.
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Universal Windows Platform features, but no Spotify UWP yet
Spotify's Xbox application is UWP-compliant, but not its recently-released desktop app for Windows 10 which some say is just a reheating of its existing x86 app.
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Microsoft Xbox One X announced, available November 7 for $499
Microsoft's Xbox One X gaming console has been announced and it will be available on November 7. Check out the price, specs, and games available at launch.
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Microsoft 1Q17 earnings, hardware on target
Microsoft wrapped its first fiscal quarter of 2017 with a split take on earnings.Incomes as measured by general accepted account principles have gone down year-over-year, but has improved using Microsoft’s non-GAAP figures.In GAAP terms, net revenue went up 0.4 percent to $20.45 billion, operating income went down 10 percent to $5.23 billion and net income sunk 4.4 percent to $4.69 billion. Its non-GAAP revenue went up 3.1 percent to $22.33 billion, operating income was up by 0.5 percent to ...
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Xbox One Cortana, new Home, more coming this fall, Xbox 360 backwards compatibility too
Before we dive into the update bit, you should know that you will be able to play your Xbox 360 games on your Xbox One console, thanks to the recently announced “native” backwards compatibility, at E3, something many have wished for. Excited?Xbox One owners can look forward to receiving a major update for their consoles this fall. It might not have a dedicated Cortana button like maybe your next PC, but there are a lot of exciting things on their way to look forward to. Microsoft has committed to ...
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Massive list of Xbox games updated with support for WP8, 512MB of RAM
A good amount of Xbox games, when Windows Phone 8 came around, didn’t support the new platform — and it’s stayed that way for quite a while. Nearly 40 Xbox games updates were released today making some older titles playable on WP8 and phones with 512MB of RAM.Take a look at the full list down below, courtesy of WPCentral. It’s a massive list, and by massive, we mean massive. There are nearly 40 games in here, and we’re assuming the updates contain nothing but 512MB of RAM / WP8 support.Microsoft Solitaire Collection [
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Microsoft wants Xbox Live to compete with iOS and Android, on each platform?
Microsoft has been extending its Xbox offerings across mobile platforms in ways that make a lot of sense since you shouldn’t be forced to own a Windows Phone in order to take advantage of Smart Glass, and as such Microsoft has delivered solutions for iOS and Android. That being said, Microsoft is a software company, and as such, it seems that the company wants to extend its reach to what you can do across platforms with its Xbox platform. A new job listing just posted by Microsoft reads: “We will create a modern framework that is open-source, lightweight, extensible and ...
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2K display Smartphone announced, Pebble App Store, Microsoft CEO News & more – Pocketnow Daily
Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Vivo’s new Xplay 3S, and its 2K-resolution display. Meizu follows as the company has just announced that its officially going to launch products in the US. Then we talk about Microsoft and the fact that Xbox Video as finally arrived to Windows Phone 8. Then the news about Microsoft continues as we cover the company’s plan for a new CEO. We end today’s show talking about the Pebble App Store, and what this could mean to the platform. All this and more after the break. Stories: -
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Sony Xperia Z Ultra, SmartWatch 2, new GS4 & more – Pocketnow Daily
Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the recent leaks of a Samsung Galaxy S 4 that’s LTE-Advanced capable and also includes a new Snapdragon 800 processor. Microsoft follows the news as Xbox games are now tipped to reach iOS and Android very soon. Nokia also made the rumor headlines due to the possible name of their future PureView EOS Lumia smartphone. Sony follows as they now announced their new SmartWatch 2, and it proves to be a very compelling product. We end today’s show talking about the new Sony Xperia Z Ultra phablet, and our first impressions of the ...
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Xbox One is like the smartphone for your home
The big news that everyone is talking about from last week is the Xbox One and Playstation 4 announcements. Both are still being considered gaming consoles and are being compared in that manner, but I think the Xbox One is really supposed to be something different… kind of like a smartphone. 10 years ago, many of us were dreaming about a smartphone that combined the features of a regular phone, an MP3 player, a portable video player, a GPS navigation device, and a touch screen PDA that covers personal information management, email, web browsing, and other apps that you can install at ...
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