• Microsoft embraces Skype video singing praises of the MacBook

  To celebrate the world's first digital orchestra staying in sync with Skype, Microsoft features a video showing an array of MacBooks. A new Redmond?

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• Windows Phone Fatboy Lamp team-up shows smart notifications

  Back when Microsoft started bringing the heat with their Nokia tag-team for Windows Phone devices, we saw the light with Nokia's team-up with a brand called Fatboy. Nokia provided the smartphones, Fatboy provided the accessories that charged them up. Now Microsoft continues this collaboration,…

• Confirmed: Windows 10 coming to all Lumias running Windows Phone 8

  Microsoft on its Lumia Twitter account confirmed that all current Windows Phone 8 devices, including Nokia Lumia and Microsoft Lumia will be upgraded to Windows 10 in the future. FROM EARLIER: Windows Phone has been a huge disappointment this year – but Microsoft isn't worried yet "We plan to…

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• Windows Store and Windows Phone Store pass half a million apps combined

  Microsoft recently updated its by the Numbers webpage to indicate that the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store have now passed half a million apps combined. More specifically, the two stores now include 525,000 apps between them. We reached out to the company to confirm the figure, and find…

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• Playdate: We're livestreaming 'Halo: The Master Chief Collection' on Xbox One! (update: game over!)

  You'd think that ten years after Halo 2 launched, Master Chief saying, "I need a weapon" would have less of an impact. I thought that, anyway, and I was wrong. Like, super, super wrong. In Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Microsoft's Halo studio...

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