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http://mspoweruser.com All of Microsoft, all of the time Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:47:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ift.tt/28TnS0F http://ift.tt/29RDzaS http://ift.tt/29kChmO Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:43:12 +0000 http://ift.tt/29tfyZt

Microsoft today announced that COO Kevin Turner is leaving the company to become CEO of Citadel Securities. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent an email today morning to his employees about his departure and the changes in the senior leadership team. First of all, there is no direct replacement for Kevin Turner, instead Microsoft is assigning Kevin’s responsibilities among five senior executives, Judson Althoff, Jean-Philippe Courtois, Chris Capossela, Kurt DelBene and Amy Hood. Kevin Turner today sent an email to Microsoft employees in the Worldwide Sales Marketing & Services Group about his departure. Read it below.

From: Kevin Turner

Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2016 7:48 AM

To: WW Sales Marketing & Services Group

Subject: Two words++

Thank you…

These two words seem highly inadequate and insufficient, but they come from the bottom of my heart.

For the past nearly 11 years, it has been an absolute pleasure being your partner.

Your partnership, hard work and ability to be a team have built out a world-class Sales, Services, Operations, Field Marketing, and Support organization, and together we have consistently delivered incredible results.

I am confident you will continue to transform Microsoft, our Customers and our Partners and lead them to the digital world with the strong foundation we have built.

As I reflect over the past 11 years, leading our revenue growth from $37 billion to over $93 billon has been an incredibly rewarding thrill.

Even more than that, seeing our Customer and Partner Satisfaction levels go to all-time highs, watching our retail stores come on and thrive, seeing us move our selling from licenses to solutions and seeing our Cloud transformation explode have been some of the proudest accomplishments that I have ever been a part of in my professional career!

You all have had a positive and profound impact on my life, both as a person and as a leader.

The past decade was a pivotal and foundational time for my family and me, as my children have effectively grown up here in the Northwest, and as a result, they have been blessed with so many opportunities to learn and grow as they become adults.

For my next chapter, I will be joining Citadel and working with another incredible founder, Ken Griffin – something I have some experience with.

For the third time in my career, I will be learning an entirely new industry and a new set of businesses as the Vice Chairman of Citadel and the CEO of Citadel Securities. Citadel is one of the world’s most successful and admired hedge funds as well as the leading equity trading firm in the United States and a leading market maker.

I will remain your biggest fan and will once again be an important Microsoft customer!

With my deepest sincerity, admiration and gratitude, thank you again for everything. I have had an absolute blast and loved every minute of my time at Microsoft!

While this decision is incredibly emotional for me, it reminds me of one of my favorite euphemisms (you know how I like those)-“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened!” Please know that I am smiling with pride and joy in my heart!

Keep driving hard and know that I will be proudly cheering you on!

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Virtual Reality is quite expensive, as most virtual reality headsets cost more than $400, and you need to own a pretty powerful PC. One of the most components of a powerful PC that is capable of supporting Virtual Reality is the GPU. These GPUs are pretty expensive, too — AMD’s Radeon RX 480 is one of the best affordable GPUs which supports VR. Now, NVIDIA is taking on AMD’s Radeon RX 480 with its new GeForce GTX 1060 GPU. The GeForce GTX 1060 costs only $249, and it comes with 6GB of RAM.

The GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is loaded with innovative new gaming technologies that make it the perfect choice for the latest high-definition games. Powered byNVIDIA Pascal™—the most advanced GPU architecture ever created—the GeForce GTX 1060 delivers brilliant performance that opens the door to virtual reality and beyond. #GameReady.

The GeForce GTX 1060 is slightly more expensive than the Radeon RX 480 — but according to NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 1060 offers better performance for the extra price. NVIDIA announced that the GeForce GTX 1060 will launch on July 16, and the company will also be selling a Founders edition which will cost $299.

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Back in April, we reported that Microsoft has agreed to purchase ten million long oligonucleotides (DNA) from Twist Bioscience to encode digital data. Microsoft and University of Washington researchers are collaborating to use DNA as a high density, durable and easy-to-manipulate storage medium. Using DNA to archive data is an attractive possibility because it is extremely dense (up to about 1 exabyte per cubic millimeter) and durable (half-life of over 500 years).

Today Microsoft announced that they have reached an early but important milestone in DNA storage by storing a record 200 megabytes of data on the molecular strands. Once encoded, the data occupied a spot in a test tube “much smaller than the tip of a pencil which is impressive.

Think of the amount of data in a big data center compressed into a few sugar cubes. Or all the publicly accessible data on the Internet slipped into a shoebox. That is the promise of DNA storage – once scientists are able to scale the technology and overcome a series of technical hurdles.

The Microsoft-UW team stored digital versions of works of art including a high-definition video by the band OK Go!, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in more than 100 languages, the top 100 books of Project Guttenberg and the nonprofit Crop Trust’s seed database on DNA strands.

Read more about it from Microsoft here.

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Microsoft today announced changes to its senior leadership. Microsoft COO Kevin Turner is leaving the company for Citadel Securities to become CEO. Microsoft is also assigning some additional responsibilties for Chris Capossela, Kurt DelBene and Amy Hood. Read Satya’s mail below in which he explains the leadership changes.

From: Satya Nadella
To: Microsoft All Employees
Date: Thursday, July 7, 5:00 a.m. PT
Subject: Senior Leadership Team Update

I want to share with you that Kevin Turner has been offered the opportunity to become chief executive officer at Citadel Securities and as a result will leave Microsoft. Kevin has made a tremendous impact at Microsoft over the past 11 years. He built the sales force into the strategic asset it is today with incredible talent while at the same time more than doubling our revenue and driving customer satisfaction scores to the highest in company history. I have learned a lot from Kevin over these past few years and wish him all the best as he takes on this broader CEO role.

For the past year, Kevin and I have spoken a great deal about the transformation we are enabling our customers to drive. We have come a great distance, and we need to continue to reach for the next level of customer centricity and obsession in everything we do — sales, marketing, services and product development. It’s very important to have “one feedback loop” across all parts of the company with customer value and satisfaction at the center. This means we must operate, learn and continuously improve collectively. To this end, with Kevin’s departure, I have made the decision to more deeply integrate the current SMSG organization into the rest of Microsoft and form one unified senior leadership team. As a result, I am pleased to announce the following changes are effective immediately, and I appreciate that Kevin will stay with Microsoft through the end of July to help with the transition.

• Judson Althoff will lead the Worldwide Commercial Business, which will focus on the commercial segments, inclusive of EPG, Public Sector, SMS&P, DX and Services.
• Jean-Philippe Courtois will lead Global Sales, Marketing and Operations, which span all of Microsoft’s 13 areas across our North America and international businesses as well as the global Marketing and Operations organization.
• Chris Capossela will lead the Worldwide Marketing and Consumer Business, which includes CCG, MSA and PSM, OEM, and Microsoft Retail Stores, in addition to his current worldwide marketing team.
• Kurt DelBene will now also lead IT and Operations, in addition to Corporate Strategy.
• Amy Hood will now also lead the current SMSG finance team and WWLP, in addition to the central finance team.

Jean-Philippe and Judson will report directly to me and join the senior leadership team starting today. Jean-Philippe will take full accountability for the Microsoft North America business also starting today, and Judson will remain as acting lead for day-to-day operations until a replacement for him is announced. Together they are working on a plan for the functions comprised in today’s Worldwide Marketing and Operations team, given it will span both of their organizations in the future.

This year, I had the opportunity to visit more than 20 subsidiaries across five continents where I saw firsthand how each subsidiary team drives business in the context of Microsoft’s mission, ambitions and culture as well as our core ethos of adding economic value and opportunity in every country and society we operate in. These teams are doing great work, and I think we can position them even better for the future.

There is no doubt the world is changing — and Microsoft must evolve with it and ahead of it. Microsoft’s mission is universal, and I believe our values and high ethical standards are timeless. But we must apply them in a world that demands more solutions that are local in nature. Growing globally requires local capability to leverage all of Microsoft’s innovation, marketing and operations in the context of local opportunities and partnerships while overcoming constraints. This means we must do better at surfacing and trusting the insight from local teams on what it takes to drive our customers’ success. At the same time, we must empower the local teams with world-class global support.

When it comes to our Worldwide Commercial Business we have an unparalleled opportunity to translate our products into customer solutions, drive new partner momentum and help businesses of all sizes in every country not just use digital technologies but become digital companies themselves.

The senior leadership team and I all agree that each subsidiary needs to maintain the financial accountability to deliver on today’s commitments while gaining new capability and flexibility for local innovation and optimization to drive long-term growth. I’m thrilled to have two talented leaders, promoted from our field organization, step forward to join the senior leadership team with their depth of experience in our current business and shared passion to drive transformation.

Please join me and the senior leadership team for a special All Employee Q&A today at 8:30 a.m. PT. We look forward to sharing more and taking all of your questions.

Satya

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Line today released a minor update for its Windows 10 app. The company today released version 5.2.1 for its app, which possibly brings some bug fixes and performance improvements for the previous update which added several new features. With the previous update (version 5.2.0), Line added inline emoji suggestions for chat, and much more:

• LINE for Windows 10 now displays sticker and emoji suggestions in chats based on entered text.
• It is now possible to sync People contacts with LINE.
• You can now add friends by phone number.
• Comprehensive emoji support has been added.
• Message sync speed has been improved.

At the moment of writing this article, the app doesn’t seem to have a changelog for the latest update – however, we’ll update the article when the changelog is available. As usual, if you notice any new features, please make sure to let us know in the comment section below. In the meantime, you can download Line for Windows 10 from the link below.

WP-Appbox: LINE (Free, Windows Store) →

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Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Turner is leaving the company. He will be joining Citadel Securities as the CEO. Kevin Turner worked at Microsoft for 11 years, handling the sales and marketing efforts of Office 365, and much more. Turner led a team of more than 51,000 Microsoft employees in 191 countries. Before joining Microsoft, Turner worked at Walmart as a cashier, where he was apparently named the youngest corporate officer in the company’s history.

Microsoft is has announced some leadership changes, which you can know more about here. Citadel Securities announced that Turner will be joining the company “after a transition period from Microsoft.”

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Microsoft has updated Windows Device Recovery Tool with support for new devices today. The company today added support for the NuAns Neo, and the Vaio Phone Biz devices to the Windows Recovery Tool. In addition to the NuAns Neo and Vaio Phone Biz, the update also brings support for Unistrong T536, and the Yezz Billy 4.7. If you happen to own these devices, you’ll now be able to reset your device with the Windows Recovery Tool.

The latest update for Windows Device Recovery Tool is version 3.7.18601 and you can download it from here.

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With the retirement of the Here Maps app for Windows Phone Microsoft’s own Windows Maps app has become more important.  The app has just been updated to version 5.1607.1831.  This minor update does not appear add any new features and comes without a new changelog.

App Features:

• Search for addresses, businesses, restaurants, hotels, and local attractions.
• Get driving, walking, and transit directions.
• Pin your home, work, or other favorite places to Start for one-tap guided directions from anywhere.
• Choose alternate routes to avoid things like traffic, tolls, or transfers in driving and transit directions.
• Hear turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation on GPS-enabled devices.
• When you arrive, let Maps help you remember where you parked your car.
• Download maps to use them even without the Internet.
• See your favorites and search history across all your Windows PCs and phones.
• Explore the world in 3D with detailed imagery of more than 200 cities and landmarks.
• See 360° panoramas of a place with Streetside views.
• See current traffic, cameras, and incidents on the map and plan your trip accordingly.
• See airport gates, shops, and more in indoor venue maps.
• Get detailed business info like phone numbers, directions, addresses, business hours, and reviews.
• Print and share step-by-step driving and walking directions.
• Note: Some features may not be available on all devices and in all countries or regions.

The last major update added:

• Multiple searches shown in tabs that you can minimise to reduce clutter
• Improved voice-guided navigation with larger text that’s easier to read at a glance
• Search added to 3D cities, so you don’t have to scroll to find the city that you want
• Favourites now has notes, and you can keep them with you, even when you sign out
• New layout on phones makes it easier to get to things such as search, directions and favourites
• Search results are now directly labelled on the map so that you can see what’s what
• New guided public transport directions let you know when it’s time to get off the bus
• Improvements to algorithms for searching what’s nearby, with closer and better results
• On phones, import any favourites that you saved in HERE apps

Have our readers noticed any new features?

Download the update from Windows Store using the below link.

WP-Appbox: Windows Maps (Free, Windows Store) →

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Acer today unveiled its new TaravelMate X3 series for Windows 10. The first device from the series, the TravelMate X349 comes with an all-aluminium chassis, which weighs just around 1.53kg (3.3 pounds), and has a thickness of only 18mm. The device comes with a fingerprint scanner, which will allow users to unlock their PC very easily. The device comes with Intel’s 6th generation processors and has a battery life of up to 10 hours. The device sports as 14-inch Full HD display, up to 8GB DD4 RAM, up to 512GB SSDs and ships with Windows 10 Pro. Acer has also included a USB Type-C port that you can use with the company’s USB Type-C Dock.

• Powered by Windows 10 Pro
• Has up to 10 hours of battery life, 6th Generation Intel Core processors, DDR4 memory and SSDs
• Enhanced usability with a brilliant Full HD IPS display that reclines 180-degrees to lie flat, and a LED backlit keyboard with a bigger, wider touchpad
• Integrated touch fingerprint sensor supports Windows Hello for fast and secure sign-in, while a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 chip increases platform integrity and provides hardware-based protection for passwords and encryption keys
• Includes a USB Type-C port for pairing with an Acer USB Type-C Dock (sold separately) to connect to up to two 4K displays, providing power and a variety of peripheral connections through a single cable.

Acer says the company’s TravelMate X349 will be available in North America in October, starting at $649.99. The company will launch the device in Europe and the Middle East in September, where prices will start from €480. Lastly, the device will also be available in China where prices start at ¥5,999.

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Microsoft has released the first UWP app for the Xbox One to Xbox One Preview members. The company released the updated Blu-Ray Player as a Universal Windows App, which is now available on the Xbox Universal Store. If you are one of the top 20,000 Preview members, you will be able to download the new update for the Blu-Ray player. Apparently, the update does not introduce any notable changes to the app itself, other than the fact that it’s now a Universal Windows App. In a forum thread, Microsoft stated:

Hey everyone,

You’ve likely heard about the new universal apps platform for Windows 10, which also includes Xbox, and the Xbox Universal Store introduced in the latest Xbox One update.

Tonight, we’re excited to launch the first universal app on Xbox One to a subset of Preview users: Blu-Ray Player.

Beginning tonight, the top 20,000 Preview participants (based on total Preview award points) will see a new app update become available for the Blu-Ray Player. The app update will not be available to all 20,000 top Preview participants immediately, but should become available over the next 24 hours for those selected. There will be few if any noticeable differences between the old Blu-Ray Player app and the new Blu-Ray Player universal app. Primarily, we’re looking for feedback on problems or any unexpected behavior.

If you do encounter any problems or unexpected behavior with the new Blu-Ray Player universal app, please use Report a problem (hold down the Xbox button on the controller and select Report a problem) and let us know.

Thanks so much for being part of Preview and helping us test our first universal app!

In the coming months, we’ll see a tonne of new apps coming to the Xbox One thanks to the Universal Windows Platform — for example, Hulu and Dailymotion are already working on their UWP app for the Xbox One and we’ll probably see an app from companies like Netflix, Periscope, etc. This is because Microsoft is merging the Windows Store and the Xbox Store with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update — which means, if a developer decides to support the Xbox One, their Universal Windows App will be on the Xbox Universal Store very easily.

Microsoft is planning to release the Windows 10 Anniversary Update as a free update for PCs on August 2, and it’ll be available for other devices such as the Xbox One at a later date.

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Netflix today released a minor update for their Windows 10 app. The update comes without an official change log in the Store listing, and apart from the updated logo, we could not notice any significant changes. We guess its a bug fix update improving the overall app experience.

How does Netflix work?

– Netflix membership gives you access to unlimited TV shows and movies for one low monthly price.

– With the Netflix app you can instantly watch as many TV episodes & movies as you want, as often as you want, anytime you want.

– You can Browse a growing selection of thousands of titles, and new episodes that are added regularly.

– Search for titles and watch immediately on your phone or on an ever expanding list of supported devices.

– Rate your favorite shows and movies and tell us what you like so Netflix can help suggest the best titles for you.

– Start watching on one device, and resume watching on another. Check out netflix.com for all the TVs, game consoles, tablets, phones, Blu-ray players and set top boxes on which you can watch Netflix.

If you notice any changes, let us know in the comments section below.

Find the updated app from Windows Store at the link here.

WP-Appbox: Netflix (Free, Windows Store) →

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Windows 10 Mobile Build 14383 Emulator has been leaked online. If you are already on Build 14379, you probably won’t see anything new or exciting in this build as we nearing the release of the Anniversary Update. As this is an emulator, you won’t be able to run it on your actual Mobile device — instead, you’ll have to install it on your PC. However, it is worth noting that you should probably wait until later today as Microsoft is expected to release build 14383 to Insiders later today.

Microsoft will “officially” release Windows 10 Mobile Build 14383 Emulator, as well the Windows 10 Build 14383 SDK soon after releasing the build to Windows Insiders. The final release of the Anniversary Update won’t differ much from build 14383 or any of the recent builds of Windows 10, which isn’t really surprising. Once again, Microsoft is going to release Anniversary Update for Windows 10 PCs and Mobile on August 2.

If you still want to try out build 14383’s emulator, you can download it from here.

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Samsung today announced the world’s first removable memory cards based on the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension Standard. These new cards comes in a wide range of storage capacities including 256, 128, 64 and 32 gigabyte (GB).

Samsung’s new 256GB UFS removable memory card  provides more than five times faster sequential read performance compared to that of a typical microSD card, reading sequentially at 530 megabytes per second (MB/s) which is similar to the sequential read speed of the most widely used SATA SSDs. When it comes to writing, the new 256GB UFS card processes 35,000 random IOPS, which is 350 times higher than the 100 IOPS of a typical microSD card, and attains a 170MB/s sequential write speed, almost doubling the top-end microSD card speed.

To achieve the highest performance and most power-efficient data transport, the UFS card supports multiple commands with command queuing features and enables simultaneous reading and writing through the use of separately dedicated paths, doubling throughput.

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WhatsApp today released an update for its app for Windows Phone devices. This updated app v2.6.114 includes few UX tweaks and performance improvements which were under testing in the beta app over the past few weeks. In this update, image gallery has become significantly faster. When you go to Gallery for image selection, instead of All Images section, it will now go to Folders page.

You can download the latest update on your Windows Phone from the Store link below.

WP-Appbox: WhatsApp (Free, Windows Store) →

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IObit Uninstaller, a program uninstaller for Windows devices that scans for and removes leftovers after the removal process, has released a beta version with features such as removing browser add-ons, toolbars and plugins from major web browsers using the application. The software initially supported Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers, but with me iteration, the software has finally added support for Microsoft’s Edge browser.

Those running a recent Insider Build of Windows 10 and have installed extensions in Edge already should see them listed there. IOBit will allow you to uninstall extensions, and though you can do this without the program, you can also remove malicious or problematic extensions this way. You can also remove multiple extensions at once which may speed up the process.

Other than that, other options include resetting the browser defaults, and the listing of injected programs under Toolbars & Plug-ins. Other under the hood changes include a larger database for malicious and ad-based browser plugins; additional support for removing stubborn programs and browser plugins, and improved scan functionality to be faster and more thorough.

You can find more information about the update at the source link below.

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BeFriend is an open-source, distress signal sending application which has the ability to notify your friends and family about your location anytime you are in danger using SMS and twitter.

Some of the features are:

• Gets location precisely upto 10 decimal points using Cellular and GPS both
• Sends sms and post tweets silently in interval of 5 minutes
• Can be launched from notification center or previously set reminders. No need to open the app
• Works with Mobile, Desktop and HoloLens!
• Completely Open-Sourced and Non-profit
• Can place a notification permanently in Action Center which launches SOS on one tap

Gallery : Befriend screen shots

You can contribute to the app here.

Download the app now using MS Store link or below.

WP-Appbox: BeFriend (Free, Windows Store) →

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For those who may be concerned about the future of Insider builds after the upcoming Anniversary Update, Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar has confirmed on twitter that the Windows Insider program will continue well after the Anniversary Update.

@Yogesh_Rya we will definitely keep pushing builds post-anniversary update. This system seems to work pretty well.

— Dona Sarkar (@donasarkar) July 5, 2016

The insider gas been pretty successful, allowing testers/users to try new Windows builds while providing feedback on the direction on the future of the service. And with Redstone 2 expected to be released sometime in the first half of next year, those in the program should be expecting to keep receiving these builds before hand, just as theyve been receiving current Redstone builds since earlier this year.

“I want people in the Insiders program to feel like a part of our family,” she said. “I want them to feel like they have a seat at the table to help make this product better. And not just hardcore technical people.”

And with the new Xbox One Preview program, it only goes to show that Microsoft is really standing behind these early preview programs that allows it’s fan base to continue shaping the future of the company.

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Hello MSPowerUser readers!

GDrive.NET  – client for Google Drive on Windows ecosystem – gets updated again! In this app you can manage your Google Drive on Windows 10 and Windows Phone 8.1 and it’s getting better and better with each update

In newest version you can find:

• ability to auto-upload videos,
• ability to auto-upload screenshots and saved pictures [Win 10 only],
• refreshed app icon,
• Spanish language support! Now app is available in 5 different languages: English, German, Polish, Italian and Spanish,
• tablet mode fixes,
• UI enhancements,
• bugfixes.

It’s most full featured Google Drive manager on Windows!
App is free to download with optional purchase of full version – to remove ads and unlock advanced functionality. By buying you support developer and future updates

You’re all welcome to check it out and tell what you think in comments!

WP-Appbox: GDrive.NET (Free^*, Windows Store) →

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CNN today announced that the company will be retiring its Windows Phone app later this month. Windows Phone users will no longer be able to use the company’s app from July 18. When you open the app, it displays the following message:

This application will be retired on Monday, July 18.

Thank you for being a loyal CNN user. Please visit our mobile web site to continue to get the latest domestic and international news: www.cnn.com

The CNN app was already quite old, and it probably didn’t have a lot of users. CNN may be planning to release a Windows 10 app in the future, but we’ll let you know when and if that happens. In the meantime, you can just use the built-in News app in Windows 10 to stay up-to-date with the latest news.

WP-Appbox: CNN (Free, Windows Store) →

]]> http://ift.tt/29tfoBr 0 http://ift.tt/29uTr5y http://ift.tt/29kBRNu Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:51:31 +0000 http://ift.tt/29tfF7t Some things are just better off not said.

Recently, a user on Twitter, Patrick Burtchaell, found a new email that had been sent to his roommate from a Microsoft recruiter. The message started off by inviting its “bae interns” to attend Internapalooza, held in San Francisco, and to “get lit,” hang out, and party at the event. The event is to be held on July 11, where other partners like Google and Snapchat will be attending.

Following this interesting attempt from Microsoft to communicate a hip message, a spokesperson from the company issued a response, stating:

The email was poorly worded and not in keeping with our values as a company. We are looking into how this occurred and will take appropriate steps to address it.

Well, then.

How would you have reacted to this email? Hit us up in the comments.

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While other vendors are raising prices Microsoft is dropping the prices of their Windows 10 phones in UK and Ireland.

At the Microsoft UK store Microsoft dropped the Lumia 550 price by £10 to £79.99 and at Microsoft Ireland the price has dropped by €30 to €99.99.

The affordable Windows 10 Mobile handset features a Quad Core Snapdragon 210 processor, an 8 megapixel camera and a 4.7 inch 720 p screen. It does not support Windows Hello or Continuum, but it does have Glance, Bluetooth 4.1 and other small niceties included.

Pick up the Lumia 550 in UK here and in Ireland here.

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EA today announced that will be adding several great titles like Need for Speed, EA SPORTS Madden 17, Unravel to The Vault and Play First Trials. Also, this fall, EA Access members on Xbox One and Origin Access members on PC can experience the dawn of all-out war first with Battlefield 1 Play First Trials on October 13, ahead of its October 21 worldwide launch.

The following titles are coming in the next few months:

• Need for Speed and Unravel join the EA Access Vault – July 12: EA Access members can spend as long as they want customizing their ride, before hitting the streets of Ventura Bay in Need for Speed. Join Yarny on an adventure in this physics-based puzzle platformer. Using ingenuity and yarn strategy, you’ll traverse through 12 unique levels, aiding Yarny in a quest to mend a broken bond.

• EA SPORTS Madden 17 Play First Trial – August 18. In the Madden NFL 17 Play First Trial, players on Xbox One can take their team all the way with the most balanced gameplay, deeper Franchise and an all new commentary team.

• Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 coming to The Vault – August 30. Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 goes above and beyond to deliver the funniest, craziest most over-the-top shooter yet. Players can go on the offensive as the plants in all-new modes including the 24-player Herbal Assault mode, or rally the zombies together and defend against the plants in the 4-player co-op mode, Graveyard Ops. From the Great White North to Moon Base Z, all the hilarious action takes place across 12 fresh maps that are bursting with life and humor.

• EA SPORTS NHL 17 Play First Trial – September 8. All-new game modes, new and deeper experiences in fan-favorite modes, and the best on-ice gameplay ever make NHL 17 the most exciting EA SPORTS NHL game to date. Live out your hockey fantasy in all-new Draft Champions and World Cup of Hockey game modes, own every zone with authentic goaltenders, new Net Battles on offense and defense, and bone-crushing Collision Physics.

• EA SPORTS FIFA 17 Play First Trial – September 22. Powered by Frostbite, one of the industry’s leading game engines, FIFA 17 delivers authentic, true-to-life action, takes players to new football worlds, and introduces fans to characters full of depth and emotion.

EA Access members are already have access to 20+ titles in The Vault, trying new EA games first with Play First Trials, and saving 10% on EA digital purchases on Xbox One. If you want buy EA Access subscription on Xbox One, visit the link here.

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Microsoft today released a major update for Outlook Groups iOS app in App Store. This update includes huge improvements to user experience across the app. Also, you can now view your group events, add them to your calendar and create new events for your groups. Find the change log below.

What’s New in Version 1.10.8:

-View your group events, add them to your calendar and create new events for your groups.
-A huge uplift of experiences across the app.
-Swipe on a group to add them to favorites or mute notifications from them.

Outlook Groups enables you to engage with your team on the go with an Office 365 work or school account. Take part in the latest discussions, share photos and notes and collaborate on files.

You can get Outlook Groups for iOS from here.

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After ongoing currency melt-down due to Brexit in UK Dell has told channel partners that they have raised their prices by 10%, an increase which will soon be passed on to customers.

“We carefully consider price moves for our customers and partners, and have worked diligently over the past several months to postpone any increases pending the outcome of the EU referendum,” a Dell spokesperson told The Register.

“Our component costs are priced in US dollars,” she added, “and unfortunately, the recent strengthening of the US dollar versus sterling and other currencies in the EMEA region, following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, will have a direct impact on the price we sell to our UK customers and partners.”

The UK Pound is currently down 12.4% vs the US Dollar, a 31 year low.

Other PC companies are also likely to follow suite, with HP saying:

“HP is carefully assessing the Brexit situation to better understand its business and economic impact. In the meantime, we continue to actively move forward with day-to-day operations supporting employees, customers and partners. HPE, like any other international company, adjusts prices based on exchanges rates and currency fluctuations. Adjustments in pricing are always communicated to our partners and customers through existing communication channels.”

Is now the time to buy that PC and TV you have been ogling before prices go up even further? Let us know below.

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Asus’ latest 2-in-1 device Zenbook Flip UX360CA is now available for order in the US starting at $699. It comes with a precision-engineered multi-gear metal mechanism 360° hinge that allows a silky-smooth, stepless action and holds the display securely at any angle. Just like other high-end Asus Ultrabooks, this model’s chassis is forged from a single block of metal with spun-metal finish and it comes in two colors: Icicle Gold or Mineral Grey.

This device features touchscreen display up to QHD+ 3200 x 1800 resolution and 72% NTSC color gamut, a high-capacity lithium-polymer battery that can last for up to 12 hours between charges, up to 8GB RAM, a super-fast 512GB SSD and the latest 6th-generation Intel Core M processor.

It also comes with USB Type-C port for fast data transfers, two USB 3.0 Types-A ports, a micro HDMI port and an SD Card slot.

You can order it here from Amazon and here from Asus.

Find more images below.

Full Specs:

• Processor

  Intel® Core™ M 6Y30 Processor,

• Operating System

  Windows 10 Home

• Memory

  8 GB SDRAM

• Display

  13.3″ (16:9) LED backlit FHD (1920×1080) Glare Touchscreen with 72% NTSC

• Graphic

  Integrated Intel HD Graphics 515

• Storage

  Solid State Drives:
  256GB/512GB SATA3 M.2 SSD

• Keyboard

  Chicklet keyboard

• Card Reader

  Multi-format card reader

• WebCam

  HD Web Camera
  HD 720p CMOS module

• Networking

  Wi-Fi
  Integrated 802.11a/b/g/n/ac(2×2) (WIDI Support)
  Bluetooth
  Built-in Bluetooth V4.1

• Interface

  1 x Microphone-in/Headphone-out jack
  2 x USB 3.0 port(s)
  1 x USB-C Gen 1 (up to 5 Gbps)
  1 x micro HDMI
  1 x SD card reader
  1X AC adapter plug
  1 x Volume up/down

• Audio

  Built-in Stereo 1.6 W Speakers And Digital Array Microphone
  ASUS SonicMaster Technology

• Battery

  3 Cells 54 Whrs Polymer Battery

• Power Adapter

  Output :
  19 V DC, 2.37 A, 45 W
  Input :
  100 -240 V AC, 50/60 Hz universal

• Dimensions

  323 x 220 x 13.9 mm (WxDxH) (w/ 3cell battery)

• Weight

  1.3 kg with Battery

• Security

  BIOS Booting User Password Protection
  HDD User Password Protection and Security

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While Groove Music is supported by Sonos, you can still not control the high end audio system from your Windows Phone or PC.

Zonos is a 3rd party app for the service which lets you control your system from your Windows device. The app has just been updated to version 2.0 which brought new features such as Cortana support and support for more languages.

The app now features:

• Voice control your Sonos players using Cortana in English and German
• Control media playback of all players
• Browse your media library and third-party media services
• Group players into zones
• Reorder play queues so you decide the order in which your media is played
• No need to pair this controller with your Sonos network, it works out of the box
• Advanced features such as alarm management, sleep timer and more!
• Pandora and Amazon Music support
• Dark colour scheme

The update also brought

• New volume knob for finer adjustment in the lower volume range
• Improved TV support
• New icons for various services
• Easier switching between different players
• Minor bugs fixes.

See screen shots of the app below:

Gallery : Zonos screen shots

Find the app in the Windows Store here.

WP-Appbox: Zonos (Free^*, Windows Store) →

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Rockstar games yesterday announced that Red Dead Redemption will be released for Xbox One as part of Xbox One Backward Compatibility program this coming Friday, July 8th. Following this announcement, Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition sales rank is now up 7,095% on Amazon. It has moved up to 22nd position from 1,583 in a day! Red Dead Redemption sales rank is now up 1,250% on Amazon. It has moved up to 53rd position from 716 in a day! Red Dead Redemption was one of the most-demanded titles since Xbox One backward compatibility program was announced at E3 2015 and this increase in sales on Amazon is an another proof for the high interest on this title among gamers.

If you already own Red Dead Redemption game on Xbox 360, you can now play it on Xbox One regardless of which version of the game you own (Red Dead Redemption, Undead Nightmare and Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition). If you are interested in buying this game now on Xbox One, the game will be available to purchase on Friday from the Games Store on Xbox One. You can order it from Amazon using the below links,

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It seems like Fallout 4’s DLC is coming to an end. Pete Hines, Bethesda’s VP of marketing, took to Twitter to confirm that Nuka World is the last piece of DLC the game will receive.

Nuka World was originally announced at E3 last month, along with two other pieces of DLC. These were Contraptions Workshop and Vault-Tec Workshop, which allowed players to build more things in their settlements. They definitely aren’t the same kind of DLC that Fallout 3 and New Vegas received, with Far Harbor being the exception.

The price of the Fallout 4 season pass was raised to $50 because Bethesda had planned to include more content after Far Habor, and some people are – understandably – angry about this.

@DCDeacon @AndesDylan After raising the price of the Season Pass to $50, only $10 less than the full game, we're only getting 3 expansions??

— MinZ & Ridley (@MinZMaille) July 5, 2016

@DCDeacon @AndesDylan What a load of crap. Two DLC's and a load of powderpuff items. Nice to see Bethesda/Zenimax is adopting EA's model…

— Clayton Johnson (@cbjohnson82) July 5, 2016

@DCDeacon that is really disappointing. I expected more when I paid for that pass.

— Randall Pedersen (@Randy_hates_you) July 6, 2016

This definitely isn’t the best note for the DLC to end on. There’s always a chance Bethesda could change their minds, but this isn’t too likely.

Nuka World will release some time later this year, and you can purchase Fallout 4 on the Xbox One here.

What do you think of this? Are you angry about the price:content ratio of the season pass, or do you think it’s best that Bethesda moves on to working on their next project? Let us know in the comments below!

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Microsoft yesterday announced that the Power BI service has added support for reports and dashboards with R visuals. This expands Power BI service visuals with endless flexibility, and adds advanced analytics depth. Also, the R visuals are fully integrated into Power BI service reports, and can be filtered, cross filtered, and pinned to dashboards. Also they behave in the service like any other visual in Power BI which means users can interact, filter, slice, and pin them to a dashboard, or share them with others. R visuals in Power BI service are enabled only for domain verified Pro users and it supports hundreds of the mostly used R packages.

For more information on R visuals in the service, see Use R scripts in Power BI to create advanced analytics and visualizations.

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Microsoft today announced Dynamics 365 bringing their CRM and ERP cloud offerings into one cloud service with specific, purpose built, apps for each key business processes – like Finance, Sales, Customer Service, etc. Dynamics 365 apps will also provide you with a modern and familiar experience with built in insights, intelligence and workflow. To ensure interoperability and extensibility they also use a common data model and consistent application platform.

Microsoft is encouraging their partners to use Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Microsoft Azure to create composite business applications spanning Dynamics 365, Office 365 and, via a large and growing family of connectors, third-party databases and applications. To extend the functionality of individual Dynamics 365 apps, partners may continue to use native application extensibility frameworks built-in to the CRM and the AX platforms.

Learn more about Dynamics 365 here.

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