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Microsoft has announced to end support for its visual assistant Cortana on both Android and iOS devices. Microsoft has also removed the Cortana app from both the App Store and Googles Play Store, beginning March 31. "As we announced in July, we will soon be ending support for the Cortana app on Android and iOS, as Cortana continues its evolution as a productivity assistant," Microsoft said in an update. The company first launched Cortana for iOS and Android in December 2015. The app was desi...

Microsoft has started rolling out the latest Windows 10 update to fix bug issue that has left users with a blue screen of death (BSOD) when they tried to use a printer. In the update notes, Microsoft said that the issue only affected certain printers using some apps. It seemed to impact some printers from Kyocera, Ricoh and Zebra. "Addresses an issue that might cause a blue screen when attempting to print to certain printers using some apps and might generate the error, APC_INDEX_MISMATCH," t...

Microsoft has ended support for its original cross-platform Edge browser, also called Legacy Edge, the company had launched as a replacement for Internet Explorer 11. In August last year, the company announced that support for the Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop application will end on March 9, 2021. Legacy Edge will no longer receive security updates, and people using it should begin the process of switching to other browsers. "To replace this out of support application, we are announcing tha...

Read more about Data Privacy: Intel collaborates with Microsoft to tackle final frontier on Business Standard. Intel has collaborated with Microsoft on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency programme in the US, to tackle the final frontier in data privacy

Image: Samsung Many folks don’t know that you can use your Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet as a desktop experience using Samsung DeX. If you’re completely new to the idea of DeX, the “Desktop eXperience” runs from your Galaxy device and lets you use your phone or tablet with a monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Samsung’s OneUI Android software adapts to become something more akin to Windows or macOS, so you can access your files and apps on a bigger screen. Advertisement Samsung has added a...

The U.S. government ordered federal agencies on Wednesday to update Microsoft products that were recently discovered to contain vulnerabilities being exploited by suspected Chinese state hackers.

Microsoft would like the U.S. government to adopt media rules that would force big tech companies to share profits with newspapers when they link to news content, according to a new blog post by Microsoft president Brad Smith. And the entire concept is controversial, to say the least.

February 08 2021 Microsoft Corp. has reportedly signed a lease for an 85,000-square-foot building in Hillsboro. The Redmond, Washington-based tech giants lease is for the Ambercreek Building, located at 9800 N.E. Gibbs Drive. The Portland Business Journal originally reported Microsofts lease in Hillsboro in late December. The company has long been searching for space in the Portland metropolitan area for its cloud division, the Portland Business Journal has also reported. Pamplin Media G...