Microsoft is planning to release its first update to Windows Phone 8.1 soon, and the company has started detailing some of the upcoming features to phone manufacturers. One of the main visual changes with Update 1 is the introduction of folder support, allowing Windows Phone users to drag one Tile on top of another and create a folder to organize apps. Its a feature both Android and iOS have had for years, so its encouraging to see Microsoft is finally close this gap. One of the more interesting...

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With .1 starting to dribble out to users via the ever slow wireless carriers, tech enthusiasts have already turned their attention to Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1. To date, there been very little information about this update, beyond the fact that it was a bucket of sorts for features that didn't make the original 8.1 cut. But thanks to a nice leak from—you guessed it—Microsoft, we now know quite a bit more. The leaks were made by Microsoft to its OEM partners, those companies that...

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The quest to play on just about everything wont be over any time soon, it seems. A team of Australians has torn open and modified an ATM to play id Software classic first person shooter using some of the bank machine built in controls. This isnt hardest hack in the world ATMs like this run Windows XP, after all but it still required custom software and logic, including a circuit board that can remap buttons meant for deposits instead of demon slaying. What you see in the video below is just the...

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Microsoft is keen to get its tiled OS on as many devices, from as many hardware makers, as possible. It introduced the license free Windows with Bing back in May as part of this push, but prior to that, at Build 2014, it announced it would be offering Windows for free to OEMs and ODMs on all tablets smaller than nine inches. The dream of an army of smaller devices running Windows 8.1 has suffered a major setback now though with news that one of the largest Windows device makers, Lenovo, has...

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Microsoft has revealed work is under way to unify its different Windows operating systems into a single OS. Chief executive Satya Nadella made the announcement while briefing analysts following Tuesdays earnings update. We will streamline the next version of Windows from three operating systems into one single converged operating system for screens of all sizes, he said. During the quarter, we reassessed our product roadmap and decided not to ship a new form factor that was under development,...

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The Lumia 1520 is currently the biggest Windows Phone, but at a mere 6 inches it could be dwarfed by future devices. Before it has even delivered Windows Phone 8.1 to most users, Microsoft is readying its growing number of Windows Phone OEMs for the release: Windows Phone 8.1 GDR 1. As with past platform updates, the release includes a mix of end user features and behind the scenes improvements. The notable user visible change is that the Start screen will support folders; drop one tile on top...

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This weekwebreak out of the Channel 9 studios and visit the offices ofChad Beeder and Andrew Richards, and talk about some of the history of Buildings 22 and 26. Channel 9 Campus ToursChannel 9 History of MicrosoftHow Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future Were looking forward to making another 100 episodes that delve deep in to the troubleshooting tools of Microsoft.

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Ransomware, malicious software that encrypts user data and then demands payment for decryption, just got even stronger. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab report that a new strain of ransomware, called Onion, which uses the anonymising network Tor to hide its malicious nature, and to make it hard to track those behind this ongoing malware campaign. The malware is a successor to the notorious Cryptolocker ransomware. When infected, Cryptolocker would scan a user computer for documents,...

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