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Amazon Game Studios announced plans to make four more games available on iOS devices. The move confirms Amazon’s pledge to take entertainment more seriously. A closer inspection of the four game titles—Tales From Deep Space, To-Fu Fury, Lost Within and
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A platform is only as good as the apps that run on it, so Microsoft is doing everything it can to ensure it has the largest possible pool of apps for its platforms and devices. The crux of that strategy
Microsoft shares universal app platform vision Read More »
Most people have jobs. Some have jobs with benefits. Most people have friends. Some have friends with benefits. Most people use Microsoft Windows. Soon some may choose to use Windows with benefits. I predict that Windows 365 will be unveiled as a
Windows 365 subscription will be like Windows with benefits Read More »
Everyone’s familiar with the phrase “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” Microsoft is utilizing its own variation on that theme to maintain relevance and dominance across all platforms and devices. It’s more of a “If you can’t bring customers
Microsoft on ‘secret’ mission to dominate every platform Read More »
The Windows 10 Technical Preview has been available since October of last year. More than 1.5 million people have joined the Windows Insider program and are ostensibly looking under the hood to see what Windows 10 has to offer. Microsoft
Testing the Windows 10 waters Read More »
Micro vs. Macro Relationship Management Technology has made almost every activity in our daily lives easier and faster. This enables us to accomplish so much more than previous generations—not only more quickly, but in some cases, seemingly effortlessly. Moreover, it
Smartcuts vs. Shortcuts Read More »
Two weeks ago I had never heard of Wix.com. The first I heard of the website platform was it’s commercial during Super Bowl XLIX: I am much more familiar with Weebly–which offers a similar set of features and capabilities. Weebly
Wix website-building platform comes to Office 365 Read More »
I get a lot of email. I cleared out my inbox from 10,000 messages down to zero a few months ago, and it has already skyrocketed north of 4,000 again–and that’s after I’ve deleted the crap I absolutely am not
Outlook 2016 needs a unified inbox Read More »
I have a new favorite email app. Microsoft launched Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android this week–both rebranded versions of Acompli, which Microsoft acquired a couple months ago. Outlook for iOS is awesome, and blows OWA for iPhone out
Why Outlook for iOS is my new favorite email app Read More »
I’m a huge fan of Office 365 and I have written repeatedly about how Office 365 is simply a mathematically better way to buy Microsoft Office than purchasing the suite outright the old-fashioned way. But, you can’t really beat free.
Office Online delivers most of what you need for free Read More »
