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Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana will come soon as a standalone app for ioS & Android. Currently, Cortana is being built for Windows 10. There are also reports coming in of a big launch of Cortana later this year.
Reports: ArsTechnica, IT Pro, Engadget
New research by Microsoft has shown that consumers were becoming more comfortable sharing information about their personal lives via Internet-connected devices, & even Online as say, compared to about two years ago. At the same time, there’s also been a shift to a more savvy & demanding consumer who wants to stay in control of their digital persona, & how their personal information is used, to help them improve their lives. Microsoft Digital Trends 2015 had over 13,000 consumers from 13 countries participating in it.
Game developers, rejoice. You can now take a crack at developing Xbox games. Microsoft had a private SDK so far but has now turned that into a public one. Developers may use the Windows 10 universal app platform for the same.
Reports: The Verge, GeekWire, NDTV.com, VentureBeat
For the 1st time, IT major Microsoft showed off Windows 10 based smartphones. Unwrapping them at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain today, the Lumia 640 & Lumia 640 XL can be upgraded as & when Windows 10 for mobiles is released.
Reports: VentureBeat, The Verge, GSMArena.com
So what’s this we hear. IT major Microsoft is reportedly developing a location-sharing app named People...
Barely a week after it made its note-taking tool OneNote completely free, Microsoft today said it had povided OneNote with OCR support across all platforms. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition.
Reports: VentureBeat, The Next Web, Ubergizmo