Author: Microsoft Stories

ASUS has launched its EeeBook X205 notebook with an 11.6-inch screen with a full-size keyboard, large touchpad, and powered by a quad-core Intel Atom processor. EeeBook X205 ships with Windows 8.1, and is fully-compatible with a wide range of software and hardware.

Powered by Windows Phone 8.1 Operating system, the iBall Andi 4L Pulse offers great performance, a great user experience brimming with powerful specs. Andi4L Pulse also comes with Microsoft’s productive suite Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Bing search apps.

One of the most anticipated features of the new Office for Windows 10 is its touch-friendly functionalities. Microsoft has added touch features in the new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. These new apps will be pre-installed in all phones and tablets running Windows 10.

Microsoft’s updated version of Office for desktop will be called Office 2016, and is expected to arrive in the second half of 2015. “We will have more to share on Office 2016 in the coming months, but this suite will remain the comprehensive Office experience you’re long familiar with” said Julia White, Microsoft Office General Manager.

Powered by Windows Phone 8.1 Operating system, the iBall Andi 4L Pulse offers great performance, a great user experience brimming with powerful specs. Andi4L Pulse also comes with Microsoft’s productive suite Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Bing search apps.

Microsoft is all set to launch the new Lumia 735 smartphone in India, and it’s likely that the device will be exclusively available on Amazon only, says a report in BGR India. Key features of the Lumia 735 are: A 4.7-inch HD ClearBlack OLED display with a 1280×720 pixel resolution. It also has a Snapdragon 400 SoC with the CPU clocked at 1.2GHz and the Adreno 305 GPU along with 1GB RAM. There’s 8GB of storage with microSD support.

The Dropbox app for Windows Phone gives users access to features such as auto backup of images, online and offline access of the user’s favourite files, as well as multi-account support on a single device. The Windows Phone app also gives users the ability to place any of the Dropbox folders on the start screen for quick access. 2GB of cloud storage will also be added to users’ Dropbox accounts once they log in from their Windows devices.

US space agency NASA has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new software that will enable scientists to work on Mars virtually, using wearable technology called Microsoft HoloLens. Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a software called OnSight will give researchers the means to plan and, along with the Mars Curiosity rover, conduct science operations on the Red Planet. “OnSight gives our rover scientists the ability to walk around and explore Mars right from their offices,” said Dave Lavery, Program Executive for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at NASA.

Windows 10 is coming to the people. After kicking off Windows 10 with a bevy of business-friendly features, Microsoft drew back the curtain on the operating system’s new consumer-focused features at an event on Wednesday, while simultaneously driving home a vision of an operating system designed to deliver a singular, cohesive experience across a myriad of device types. Microsoft also unveiled its Continuum feature, which dynamically shifts the Windows 10 interface from the Modern UI to the desktop.

Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana has made its debut on PCs. Cortana works on PCs just as it does on the Windows Phone – simply calling it out loud will fire up Cortana. Some of the features include pop up notifications from the bottom of the screen. Users will also have access to the Notebook feature that allows one to control what Cortana can access.