All posts tagged "Microsoft"

Some odd stories we’re watching this week include Microsoft’s out of control Twitter bot, “Waldo” found “being very disorderly,” an angry Easter Bunny in a New Jersey mall brawl, and a two-headed lamb in China.

The tech world’s focus on Microsoft’s release of Windows 10 in July 2015 is another reminder of the company’s dominance in the desktop market, which still stands around 90%. Along with its successes, however, have been a few failures along the way, so today we take a look back at some of the more notable...

Microsoft is warning users not to follow instructions which claim to allow Xbox One consoles to play Xbox 360 games.

Forwarding email should be an easy and familiar task, right? In Windows 8 mail, however, the “forward” option isn’t in the most obvious location.

We waited a few months to grab Windows 8, just to let the bugs work themselves out. Apparently we didn’t wait long enough! So the issue we’re discussing today is the message received at the end of update installation that reads “Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes. Do not turn off your computer.”...

Starting around November of 2012, I noticed my Zune Marketplace was running slowly. Not just kinda slow, but searches for music ran glacially slow, taking several minutes to return search results. My first thought was to contact Microsoft’s customer service. When their advice failed, I turned to Google, and found the answer.

I divide my cloud spreadsheet time almost equally between Google Docs (aka Google Drive) and the Excel Web App in Microsoft’s SkyDrive. While I enjoy features of both, I found that merely sorting a spreadsheet in the Excel Web App seemed much clunkier than Google’s online spreadsheet. If you’re trying to figure...

I have recently re-discovered SkyDrive, Microsoft’s answer to Google Drive, and a very nice alternative at that. One feature I’ve found quite useful is the auto-syncing of my photos on my new Windows 8 phone. On your SkyDrive screen, your picture folders scroll through thumbnail previews of all of your photos. That’s...