What remains of Nokia after the Microsoft Devices & Services acquisition?
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia came as a surprise to many who stayed up late yesterday or woke up this morning to read the news on their favorite tech blogs or news sites. […]
Microsoft Security Bulletins For August 2013 overview
Welcome to our analysis of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday of August 2013. The company has released a total of eight bulletins this time that patch vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Server Software, and […]
Outlook.com changes the way message history works
Microsoft has replaced Hotmail, its popular online email app, by migrating users to its Outlook.com service, an online version of the Office suite desktop email application. Last night the software giant began sending […]
Microsoft launches Office for Android, tablet users need not apply
Microsoft has already released the long awaited Office for iPhone, but Android remained only a dream and a rumor. Now the software company makes good on that with the roll out of […]
Microsoft Security Bulletins For July 2013 overview
On today's patch day, Microsoft has released seven security bulletins fixing a total of 32 different vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, the Internet Explorer browser, the Microsoft .Net Framework, Silverlight, GDI+ and Windows […]
Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 final is out
Microsoft released a beta version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 back in April this year promising that the final version would follow in the coming months. The release of version […]
Microsoft to switch linked accounts off on Outlook.com
The Microsoft Outlook team announced today that it made the decision to remove linked accounts on Outlook.com in favor of email aliases. Linked accounts are third party email accounts that have been […]
Microsoft Security Bulletins For June 2013 overview
Microsoft released a total of five security bulletins addressing 23 different vulnerabilities today of which four affect client and server versions of the Windows operating system while one is affecting Microsoft Office. […]
Bing Desktop adds new features
For several months I have been using the Bing Desktop app for Windows 8. I generally use it simply to have the current Bing image as my Wallpaper, which changes every day […]
Microsoft's newest mouse has a start screen button
Microsoft announced the new Sculpt Comfort Mouse and Sculpt Mobile Mouse today on the Windows Experience blog. I'm usually not someone who is writing about untested hardware but the Sculpt Comfort Mouse […]
Microsoft Security Bulletins For May 2013 overview
It is the second Tuesday of the month and we all know what that means: Microsoft Patch Day. Microsoft has released a total of ten security bulletins this month that address security […]
SkyDrive: new Timeline view and improved photo upload performance
Microsoft just announced that it is rolling out a SkyDrive update at the moment that is updating the all photos section on the SkyDrive website. Previously, all photos that you uploaded to […]
Microsoft improves Office Web Apps with Android support, real-time co-editing
Office Web Apps is built into Microsoft's SkyDrive OneDrive file hosting and sharing service. It provides OneDrive users with access to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote right in the web app. […]
Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 up both in April 2013 according to NetMarketShare
While usage statistics are not the most thorough data sets in regards to determining a products rising or falling trend throughout the months, they provide us with the means to spot trends […]
Skype support coming to Outlook.com
Microsoft paid more than 8 Billion Dollars for Skype and it was clear to me back then that the company had to have plans to push Skype into Microsoft products to not […]
Microsoft: AV-Test study that Bing serves 5x more malware is inaccurate
The German IT-Security institute AV-Test published the results of a test study earlier this month that analyzed search engine malware delivery. The company used a sample size of more than 40 million […]
Microsoft releases Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 4.0 Beta
I have talked about Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (short EMET) before here on Ghacks and do not want to rehash everything that has already been said about it in the past. […]
Enable two-step verification for your Microsoft account for improved security
To protect user accounts from being hacked, phished, social engineered or stolen by other means, companies and businesses from all over the world have started to deploy a technology that is commonly […]
Listen to your Word documents with AudioDocs
What ifht you could listen to your Word document being read to you from your phone or tablet? Though it may not be a need for many people, I am sure it […]
Office Web Viewer to read Office documents on the Internet
If you are using Microsoft's cloud hosting and synchronization service SkyDrive you know that you can use it to view and edit Microsoft Office documents. Microsoft up until now did not offer […]
Microsoft Security Bulletins For April 2013 overview
Microsoft a couple of minutes ago has released security patches for several of its products as part of this month's patch day. A total of nine security bulletins affecting one or multiple […]
Finally: Two-Factor Authentication coming to Microsoft accounts
Selecting a secure password is the first step of ensuring that you are safe on today's Internet. While that is a great start, it may sometimes not be enough to properly secure […]
Microsoft posts workaround to bring Google events to Calendar app
Last week's update of Microsoft's Calendar, Mail and People apps on Windows 8 removed a synchronization feature that enabled users of the operating system to sync Calendar data with Google Calendar events. […]
How to rename your Microsoft account
Back when Microsoft launched the email service outlook.com publicly it shipped with a feature to rename your Microsoft / Windows Live account. I unknowingly did so at that time and switched from […]
Searching Bing by date? Possible, but not pretty
Ken Saunders mentioned his great experience with Bing Support recently here on the site. He pasted an email that he received from Bing Support at the end of his comment that contained […]
Bing enhances its Snapshot search technology
In June of 2012 Microsoft added the "Snapshot" feature to its Bing search engine, which enables answers at a glance in the center column of the search results page. Richard Qian, of the […]
Bloomberg: Microsoft sold 400k Surface Pro devices
Microsoft has not released information about how the company's Surface devices do sales-wise. It launched the Surface RT back in October 2012 along with the Windows 8 operating system, and the Surface […]
Microsoft Security Bulletins For March 2013 Released
Yes it is this day of the month ago. Microsoft has just released this month collection of updates and patches for its products. A total of seven security bulletins have been released […]
Microsoft Office 2013 can now be transferred between PCs
The Office 2013 lineup is Microsoft's entry into the world of subscriptions thanks to Office 365 which is available for a yearly subscription fee instead of a one-time price. Subscriptions to have […]
Bing Maps gets huge high resolution update
Microsoft announced a huge update to Bing Maps yesterday which adds more than 13 million sq km of updated satellite imagery and new features such as bathymetry to the mapping service. The […]
Skype app for Windows 8 gets file sharing
We have seen a couple of big companies release apps for Windows 8 but the total number is relatively small. Microsoft is obviously at the forefront here as it is not only […]
Office Web Apps rolls out new features
Microsoft introduced Office Web Apps as a part of SkyDrive sometime back. The service is free to use, but the apps are limited to Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint. Also, functionality is […]
Outlook.com: ad-free for $19.99 per year
Many Internet services displays advertisement on their websites and use it as the main revenue generating source. The revenue that is generated is then used to cover the hosting costs, pay authors […]
Microsoft ties Office 2013 to a single PC
Prior to Office 2013 customers who bought a retail copy of the suite were allowed to reassign a license to a different device. The purchase of a new PC for instance that […]
Skype 6.2 for Windows brings eGifting and new toolbar
Microsoft has just released Skype version 6.2 for Windows, an update that brings cosmetic changes and a new feature to the popular messaging software. Existing Skype users should receive update notifications as […]
Bing apps for Office 365 released
This week Microsoft rolled out the brand new Office suite. While most of us were expecting Office 2013, and we did get that, the focus was mostly on Office 365 Home Premium, […]
Why space is not an issue for Microsoft Surface Pro devices
So you have probably read about the controversy about Microsoft's Surface RT device space-wise, that Microsoft advertised it with 32 GB or 64 GB of space when it in fact offered less […]
Microsoft Office 2013 editions overview
Microsoft Office 2013 and 365 are now available for purchase, for instance via Microsoft's official online store. Not every online retailer seems to have it in stock right now, Amazon for instance […]
Microsoft details Mesh to SkyDrive migration process
Windows Live Mesh will be retired by Microsoft on February 13, 2013 in favor of the company's SkyDrive cloud hosting and synchronization service. Microsoft has set up a support page for Mesh […]
Microsoft retires Expression
Microsoft Expression was a collection of tools that enabled you to design interactive web applications. The collection consisted of Expression Blend, an interface design tool for creating graphical user interfaces for both […]