Author: Microsoft Stories

Ubisoft is indeed working on an Assassin’s Creed remaster and expects to ship it by November 15, 2016. Ubisoft is planning to remaster Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood and Revelations. The remastered games will not include any multiplayer mode, but they will include all single-player expansions. Ubisoft says that they’re also throwing in Assassin’s Creed Embers and the three-part Assassin’s Creed Lineage as well, which flesh out Ezio’s back story.

Microsoft released an update to the Insider program and Skype Preview for PC and Mobile that allows you to send and receive SMS messages directly from your PC or Windows Phone. To be clear, this is different from just sending text messages through Skype’s paid service. Instead, it’s sending messages through your phone, via your PC, much like Apple’s Continuity or Pushbullet on Android.

In what is considered to be a major victory for traditional phone companies, the European Commission recommended more strict and tight privacy and security for services like Facebook-owned message service WhatsApp and Microsoft’s Skype. Proposed by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the demand is part of a package of reforms, which includes a promise to provide free WiFi in European towns by 2020.

Microsoft, who bought SwiftKey a while ago, have now updated the algorithm to support “neural networks.” That’s a fancy way of saying that SwiftKey now understands context. As Microsoft explains, if you’re typing “let’s meet at the,” SwiftKey would only look at “at the” and predict “time” or “moment”, or words of that nature. The updated algorithm (the neural network) will look at your sentence as a whole and figure out what you’re trying to say.

A new report points out that Microsoft is rebranding the Health app to Microsoft Band app. A report in Thurrott, points out that the name change is already made available for Android and Windows Phone, and the rebranding changes will be coming soon to iOS. The Android update notes also suggest bug fixes along with the name change from Health app to Band app. This news comes in the backdrop of a series of reports around the future of Microsoft’s fitness trackers.

The organization with the largest number of contributors to open-source projects over the past year on GitHub is, surprisingly, Microsoft. Fully 16,419 contributors affiliated with Microsoft worked on open-source GitHub projects during the past 12 months, GitHub said, ahead of 15,682 from Facebook, 14,059 from Docker and 12,841 from Angular.

Microsoft is finally willing to admit that users don’t have to go online or to a Microsoft Priority Store to buy Xbox One consoles and games. Department store chain Landmark has been stocking and selling the Xbox One along with Xbox One exclusive games for the better part of two weeks. “We periodically evaluate our channel strategy for all our products, our distributor has expanded the retail presence for Xbox One a few months ago to cover physical retail stores,” reads the response from Microsoft India in an email to Gadgets 360.

Microsoft recently released a new and what seems like one of the most major updates for its camera app, Pix on the Apple app store. The latest update adds support for several new features for the iOS 10 release including widget for lock and 3D Touch support. The new version will consist of Widget support, which lets users jump directly to photo capture, selfie capture, video capture or gallery.

Microsoft has finally added Google Drive support for Outlook on Web to allow users to receive and edit the files from the Internet version of its email client. The company has also added the support for Facebook and made it easier to search for attachment in long conversations with its update to Outlook. The Android and iOS version of Outlook already allowed users to receive and edit the files from Google Drive from inside the app.

The article is about the “Aadhaar App” which will allow people to “lock” their biometrics, have an “inbox” with their transaction history along with a dynamic one-time password a la Google Authenticator that generates security codes to access Gmail which change every few seconds. The app will also store a digitally signed Aadhaar, which can be “shared” through email or Bluetooth with a service provider say a bank or telecom operator, reducing the need to carry a physical copy of the Aadhaar card. The app will be first enabled for Android phones, followed by those of Apple and Microsoft operating systems.