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Africa gets its first commercial TV white space offering

Ghana has become the first country in Africa to have a commercial TV white space offering. The offering, which is a joint venture between…

Microsoft’s HoloLens looks better than Google Glass, but can it escape the same fate?

Microsoft pulled a fast one during its Windows 10 event by showing off a prototype of HoloLens, its own take on augmented reality glasses….

Microsoft criticises Google for disclosing Windows 8.1 bug before it fixed it

There is a possible war brewing between Microsoft and Google after the Redmond-based giant publicly criticised its Mountain View counterpart for releasing details about…

Microsoft adds Bitcoin as payment option for Xbox, Windows Phone stores

Microsoft users can now buy and download apps, games, movies, TV shows, and music at the Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox Games, Video, and…

Kim Kardashian, Facebook and iPhone 6 top Bing’s 2014 search lists

The year is winding down and with that comes the mandatory look-backs from companies across the tech world. The latest to do so is…

Real Madrid scores a Microsoft sponsorship

Microsoft is set to announce a significant partnership on Tuesday with Spanish soccer team Real Madrid. The details of the deal are sketchy and…

Microsoft Word becomes top downloaded app after price changes

After being made available for free download, App Annie reports that Microsoft Word has become the most downloaded app on the Apple App Store…

Read Steve Ballmer’s farewell letter to Microsoft’s employees

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced that he would be retiring from the company within the next year. In an internal memo to the…

Weak Surface sales hit Microsoft hard in Q4 2013 earnings

Microsoft has just reported its Q4 2103 results and it looks like weak sales of its Surface tablet hit it seriously hard. The Redmond-based…

Microsoft supplied NSA with encrypted info: here’s how

Edward Snowden is the whistleblowing gift that just keeps on giving. The latest documents from the former NSA-contractor, obtained by the Guardian, show how…

Microsoft reveals new ‘one strategy’ corporate vision

Microsoft has just announced what appears to be a massive shift in its corporate strategy, which it claims will allow it to “innovate with…

Microsoft to crowdsource Windows 8.1 security, offers $100k bounties

It’s about damn time. Microsoft has finally decided to start incentivising, handsomely, anyone that can find security flaws in the world’s most popular desktop…

Why BlackBerry, Microsoft’s desperate scrap for third place is so important

Few people remember third place. Whether in sport, science or business, there’s little glory attached to the bronze medal. But two multinational giants, BlackBerry…

Microsoft will show ads on YouTube app… if it’s allowed to

Microsoft has responded to a cease and desist letter from Google asking it to remove its recently released YouTube app from its app store….

Bill Gates describes ‘growing up’ with Steve Jobs, emotional last visit

Most would think that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had a bitter relationship until the end. But that just isn’t true, as the Microsoft…

Windows 8 goes past the 100m mark as SkyDrive hits 250m users

Microsoft has sold more than 100-million installs for Windows 8 since it became generally available and claims to have over 250-million users on its…

Outlook.com hits 400 million accounts as Microsoft officially kills off Hotmail

Four hundred million. Four. Hundred. Million. That’s how many active email accounts Microsoft has amassed over on Outlook.com. Really. According to Outlook.com’s group program…

Check out the preview for Windows 8 Skype video messages

Microsoft today announced the preview release of Skype video messaging for Windows 8, which means that anyone using the Metro side of the OS…

Microsoft meshes Skype into the heart of Outlook.com

Look out Gmail, Outlook.com just got a little more interesting. Microsoft has announced that it’s baking Skype into the email service. The service is…

Hedge fund grabs $2 billion stake in Microsoft

A hedge fund executive has revealed that his company owns a US$2-billion stake in Microsoft and that he reckons other investors don’t appreciate the…

7 key trends driving the consumerisation of IT [TechEd]

In a bid to make Windows 8 more attractive Microsoft is pushing the consumerisation of tech. The company has identified that it needs to…

Anti-viruses are cool: SA computers unprotected [TechEd]

Even in an age of Anonymous, dirty hackers, and constantly evolving malware, there are still computers out there that aren’t secure. According to Microsoft,…

Can Microsoft make Excel exciting with GeoFlow? [TechEd]

Microsoft’s latest addition to the Excel 2013 & Office 365 suite is a nifty little plugin called GeoFlow. GeoFlow for Excel is a 3D…

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