Bing Maps Preview showcases a new mapping experience ‘built from the ground up’ for Windows 8.1
Microsoft’s been busy overhauling its Bing Maps experience for Windows 8.1 and, today, the Redmond giant’s posted an app preview to its Windows Store. Users running that latest OS build can download the Bing Maps Preview to check out the sweeping,…
Microsoft’s immediate plans against NSA ‘threat’: court challenges, encryption and transparency
The NSA / PRISM / MUSCULAR scandal sparked by Edward Snowden’s leaks stained many tech companies, and tonight Microsoft has laid out several plans it hopes will convince customers (particularly non-US businesses and foreign governments) they’re sa…
Daily Roundup: Andy Rubin’s Google robotics, Microsoft completes Nokia acquisition and more!
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all ha…
Switched On: Banishing Bing
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
Much like George Orwell’s classic 1984, wars continue in the technology industry without seeming regard for who the enemy is or who it once was. Take, for example, …
Microsoft’s Nokia acquisition now a done deal with final EU approval
Prepare for a world of Microsoft-made Windows Phone 8 devices. Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Department of Justice decision, Reuters is reporting that the European Commission has granted final approval of Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia. The $7…
Xbox One self-publishing begins in early 2014 with a big list of devs onboard
It looks like Microsoft is on its way to the “tens of thousands of games” it wants produced through its “ID@Xbox” self-publishing program on Xbox One: the company announced this morning that the program will kick off starting in early 2014. The ne…
Microsoft’s Studio 99 marries art and science, inspires Kinect tools for non developers (video)
Art and science, science and art, art-and-science. To some, the two words are like oil and water, you can put them together, but they don’t always seem to fully blend. Not the case for the minds that reside at Building 99, part of Microsoft’s rese…
Microsoft begins sign-ups for its Project Spark open beta
Reckon that you could do a better job of building console games than the pros? You now have your chance to prove it. Microsoft has started taking sign-ups for Project Spark’s open beta; as long as you’re running Windows 8.1, you could be among the…
NORAD and Microsoft team on a touch-friendly Santa Claus web tracker
NORAD’s Santa Claus tracking has officially entered the tablet era. The defense agency has teamed up with Microsoft on an updated web-based tracker that’s designed for touch-friendly browsers, including Internet Explorer 11. The new site lets you …
Microsoft warns against ‘unusable’ Xbox One with dev kit trick
If yesterday’s video from GameTuts made you eager to convert your shiny new Xbox One console into a “dev kit,” you may want to think twice. In a video posted to YouTube yesterday, the outfit walks through how to toggle the settings menu in order t…
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