In December, ad spending is fueled by shoppers clicking the “buy” button, with 19 percent of shoppers searching only two to four weeks before Christmas and 24 percent starting two to four weeks before Hanukkah. Clicks on the Bing Network are higher in December than they are in November for … Read more »
“Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut” updates and expands a game that first broke ground in 1988 as a post-apocalyptic role-playing adventure classic – and it’s now available on Windows 10. New additions and improvements include deeper character building and an even more engrossing game world. More than 150 weapons, hundreds of … Read more »
If you’re an educator who wants to help your students learn how to code and explore programming, the Microsoft in Education blog has posted seven ways to get started, including Hour of Code, Creative Coding through Games and Apps and Touch Develop. Hour of Code introduces coding using a series of lessons … Read more »
Two new features are available for Office Lens, expanding the toolbox from OneNote to OneNote Online, Word for the desktop and Word Online. The Immersive Reader is now built directly into Office Lens, eliminating a step from OneNote, allowing users to have the text read aloud at the speed … Read more »
If you need to translate technical or other industry-related content, or frequently translate short passages using terminology unique to your business or industry, now you can use categories to do so in Translator for Bing. Just type “?category=xyz”, where xyz is the category, at the end of the URL (for … Read more »
PC gamers: Look out for the Xbox holiday update, which is beginning to roll out to the broader Xbox community on the Xbox App for Windows 10 and on Xbox One. It brings new features such as Clubs, Looking for Group, Achievement Rarity, Group Messaging and more. Xbox Live becomes … Read more »
A year ago, Microsoft announced a significant change to its Law Firm Diversity Program, which now focuses on increasing diversity among the partner and leadership ranks of the law firms in Microsoft’s premier provider network, and which provides financial incentives to firms that show improvement in these areas. “We are … Read more »
A project from Microsoft’s research labs is exploring the feasibility of using anonymized web search data to learn more about lung-cancer risk factors and provide early warning to people who are candidates for disease screening. The findings, published Thursday in JAMA Oncology, extend research that team members published last June … Read more »
The new Surface Book, redesigned from the inside out to deliver twice the graphics processing power and 16 hours of battery life in the same sleek form factor, is now available at Microsoft Stores and select Best Buy locations in the U.S. and Canada. Microsoft is continuing to take pre-orders … Read more »
Advertisers: To drive engagement with an app you’ve built, try the new App Install Ads, currently in pilot for all advertisers in the United States. Using App Install Ads gets customers to your app store directly, eliminating the extra time, navigation, and clicks they would otherwise need to take from your … Read more »
In close partnership with Microsoft, The Museum of Flight is using technology to unlock unprecedented access to these aircraft. For the first time, visitors – both on site as well as remotely – will be able to ‘step inside’ the cockpits and interiors of these ...Read More »
