A major update to messaging app Viber – which has more than 200 million users – brings to it a major redesign, new call transferring to the Viber desktop, battery saving alerts and Lockscreen notifications of new messages.
Among the new features of Windows 8.1 is being able to personalize it even more, including showing your desktop background with your favorite theme or wallpaper on your Start screen. Jennifer Shepherd writes on the Windows Experience Blog about how to do that.
The beauty of this game is that you are competing with everyone else who wants to play – a new game starts roughly every three minutes – you join in when you want and you drop off whenever you feel like it.
Trustworthy Computing released volume 15 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, which provides threat intelligence and analysis of cyber threats in over 100 countries and regions worldwide on Tuesday.
A TV trailer for “Ryse: Son of Rome” was released Monday, and it’s one trailer where a viewer’s interest is not going to trail off. This snapshot look at the game is heart-pounding, drama-to-the-hilt good.
If you want a chance to check out the power of the new Kinect, there’s no better game than “Kinect Sports Rivals,” the wake racing game that tracks players’ movements and expressions with incredible accuracy.
This time of year seems to be especially bountiful for opportunities to capture crazy (and cute) costumes, pumpkin patch visits and party scenes. We’ve got some new and updated photo apps from the Windows Phone Store that we think will come in handy as you memorialize the spooky and the surreal.
Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 have been getting a lot of attention in the press since their Oct. 21 launch. To give you more detail on what went into making the most productive tablets on the planet, each day this week the Surface Blog is posting a video from the Sept. 23 Surface 2 announce event in New York City.
The Internet Explorer team has issued a call to developers that’s hard to resist, especially when free pizza and other goodies are involved. While IE11 for Windows 8.1 is our fastest browser yet, developers can write code for their own sites to create an even faster Web experience.
TouchDevelop provides a cross-platform programming environment where developers can write scripts by tapping on the screen. Cloud sessions – an available feature in TouchDevelop – provide a simple way to save data in the cloud and to share data between different devices, automatically synchronizing the shared data between participants of the same session.
