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Microsoft’s no-Windows 10 Mobile strategy could be its best mobile strategy

Posted on April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 by Adam Doud

Now that Build 2016 has come and gone, it’s time for us to think about where Microsoft is in terms of the stuff we care about – mobile. Specifically, Windows 10 Mobile and the smartphones on which it runs. Granted, Build is a developer’s conference; it’s not a consumer show. There was a lot of code talk that made my eyes glaze right over, but Build isn’t for me. It’s for developers, and that’s exactly the most important point to keep in mind.Because, aside from holding some hardware in their hands, the speakers at Build 2016’s keynote didn’t really acknowledge Windows ...

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Microsoft Build 2016 keynote slides included a secret message

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

You’ve no doubt seen plenty of April Fools’ jokes today, as companies the world around participate in the fun. Some of those jokes are subtler than others, and this afternoon we’re learning about one that was so subtle that most of us missed it for days. OK, so that technically means that it’s not an April Fools’ joke at all, but it’s still a pretty interesting Easter egg: hidden in Microsoft’s Build 2016 keynote address was a secret ...

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Windows 10 at Build 2016, data only phone plans, is the iPhone SE a success? | Pocketnow Weekly 194

Posted on March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

How can we tell if the iPhone SE is a sales success? What’s new for Windows 10 at Build 2016? Could you use your smart PHONE without any phone call capabilities?We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and we’re taking a closer look at mobile audio hardware, but of course we’ll be tackling your ...

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Continuum gaining ability to wirelessly beam session to a Windows 10 PC

Posted on March 30, 2016March 30, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

Windows 10 Mobile may not be the heart of Microsoft’s Build announcements this year, but the conference isn’t leaving smartphone fans completely empty-handed, and one of the new developments we’ve seen concerns new functionality arriving with this summer’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update. While so far taking advantage of Microsoft’s Continuum feature to connect a W10M smartphone to a ...

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Microsoft confirms: Windows 10 Mobile just isn’t the focus right now

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference has brought us some interesting news about the evolution of Windows 10, previewed some new developer tools, and renewed our enthusiasm for HoloLens. But where were smartphones throughout all this? We saw a handset pop up now and then during Microsoft’s keynote address, but phone side of things felt a bit like an afterthought, a distraction from the main action. Is Microsoft still ...

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Microsoft’s vision for the future of computing is bots, bots, and more bots

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

Last week, Microsoft suffered a pretty embarrassing PR hit upon the deployment of its AI chatbot Tay: just hours after going live, users had managed to train the bot to start spewing racist tirades. You might think that after an incident like that, Microsoft would be planning to shy away from AI-driven bot interactions at Build 2016, but that couldn’t be further from the case. Instead, CEO Satya Nadella has made he clear that he sees such bots as the future of computing, with natural human language taking the place of ...

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Windows 10 Redstone goes official as Windows Anniversary Update, lands this summer with Ink

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

Microsoft’s had a big year since last year’s Build conference, delivering Windows 10 across device types and form factors. Those year-old announcements were full of hope and promise, and just how successful Microsoft was at living up to that buzz is going to depend a lot on what you value about the Windows 10 ecosystem. At this year’s Build keynote, Microsoft may be putting smartphones on the back burner, but the company’s still got some exciting announcements about the future of its platform all the ...

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Build 2016 sells out in a flash, but devs won’t get any hot new hardware for attending

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

Microsoft’s big developer conference will get the year’s platform-specific events off to a bold start, with Build 2016 planned for the tail end of March. We learned about this year’s schedule back in December, and last week details about registration finally arrived, with Microsoft opening things today, on January 19. We hate to tell you this if you were hoping to attend, but ...

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