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Microsoft teases Xbox One streaming to the HoloLens in new set of first-person videos
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The HoloLens has yet to land in developers’ hands, but Microsoft is already teasing how the tech may look when it finally ships to consumers with a set of videos captured on the augmented reality headset. The videos show streaming Xbox One games to the headset, thanks to the HoloLens’s Windows 10 backbone. Another video presents a user resizing Edge...
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Microsoft and Apple hug it out in new commercial aimed at spreading holiday cheer
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Microsoft released a new holiday-themed commercial on Tuesday that shows workers leaving the company’s own store in New York City, walking five blocks down the road and caroling in front of Apple’s flagship store. The ad says the scene was filmed on Nov. 16, right before the holiday shopping season kicked off and Microsoft and Apple inevitably found themselves fighting over the same pool...
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Join us at the Microsoft Store for this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast
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Here’s your chance to talk tech, hang out with other geeks, win prizes and be a member of the audience for the GeekWire radio show and podcast. Friendly hecklers welcome! We’ll be hosting a special recording of our weekly show from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. this Thursday, Dec. 3, at the Microsoft Store in Seattle’s University Village, featuring a special guest and prizes in partnership with Microsoft....
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Microsoft brings back manual upgrade option for Windows 10, blames takedown on minor bug
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The November update for Windows 10 is once again available for download through Microsoft’s media creation site, just a couple days after it was mysteriously taken down without much explanation. In a statement to ZDNet, which first noticed the takedown, Microsoft explained the whole thing was a miscommunication and not a more radical shift in the way the...
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Geek of the Week: ‘Soma’ Somasegar is ready for something new after 27 years at Microsoft
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S. “Soma” Somasegar joined Microsoft in 1989, back when the Redmond software company had less than 5,000 employees and was gearing up for the first release of a new productivity suite it was calling Microsoft Office. More than two decades later, Somasegar was a well known figure around campus when he announced in October he would be leaving after 27 years....
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Microsoft backing forest project near Mount Rainier to help offset carbon emissions
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About 520 acres of forest near Mount Rainier will be the first in Washington state to meet California carbon standards, thanks to a major investment by Microsoft. In ongoing efforts to become carbon neutral, Microsoft, working with Natural Capital Partners, purchased the majority of credits — 35,000 of the 37,000 needed — to...
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