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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Earlier this year, Microsoft invested 15 million dollars into Foursquare and the fruits of that investment are starting to payoff as the data is now being integrated into Cortana. The feature is now able to pull in data from Foursquare to help suggest local places that you might enjoy visiting. As you can see in the screenshot above, Cortanais able to fetch Foursqaure data based on your preferences, which allows for customized recommendations;you can add this to the growing set of features for...

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Please consider whitelisting our site on your Adblocker. Revenue from the ads helps us feed the over worked hamsters so we can keep bringing you the latest news! You can also donate to keep us going. So there you have it. Fire up Cortana on Windows Phone 8.1 and enjoy the recommendations. Thanks to server side updates to Cortana, you dont have to install any updates to Windows Phone in order to enjoy feature improvements to Cortana.

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