The Surface Pro 2 still carries the 10.6-inch ClearType HD display, but with additional 46% color accuracy. Microsoft claims that Surface Pro 2 is faster than 95% of laptops today, but that’s clearly due to Intel’s Haswell processors inside the VaporMG casing of Surface Pro 2. As we know, Haswell greatly enhances the battery life with its low power requirement while increasing the graphics performance by 50%. The new Docking Station accommodates the Surface Pro 2 with the power cover attached, and is loaded with three USB 2....

Allowing connections to personal Teams accounts should help commercial Teams account owners connect to SMBs, many of which use Teams personal accounts for business, according to Microsoft. Since the feature also extends Teams to chat with external Teams commercial users, this should help Teams commercial customers strengthen ties with vendors and partners of all sizes, while potentially broadening its appeal for business-to-consumer communications. As of last week, Microsoft Teams had 270 million monthly active users (MAU), up from 250 million MAU last July....

The new Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps will replace the existing Office Mobile app for iPhone users and the apps on iPad are also getting an update to enjoy the same features. Microsoft also announced a “preview” of new Office apps for Android tablets, allowing users to sign up to join the preview at the Google Play store, with general availability being set for early 2015. Although anyone using an Office mobile app can now create and edit across the for free, an Office 365 subscription will still be needed for more advanced editing of Word docs, images and charts....

With being part of the Mobile Insider program, your phone doesn’t get the latest firmware updates as they are only available to the production builds. You do get the most recent software, but your phone’s firmware is left to wait. But Microsoft announced today that there’s a new option. According to the blog post: Windows 10 Mobile Firmware Updates To take advantage of the new feature, launch the Windows Insider app and select Get Preview Builds....

Today was Microsoft’s Windows Tablet 8 unveiling. The product on the surface looks cool, people are hyped, but alas it will be a year before real products are given to real people. The iPad 3 with its Retina Display will have been on the market for months and Google will have iterated 10,000 Beta releases of Android before then on 200 different pieces of tablet hardware. On top of that, this new OS is really just smashing together Windows Phone 7 Metro UI Windowing (some admittedly nice UI features) with Windows 7 applications....

Making the first contact with any stranger is a daunting task, especially if you don’t know how to message someone on Facebook. You don’t know them, they don’t know you – yet you want to make the best first impression possible. After all, first impressions are indeed the last impressions, and if you mess them up, then you can come off as a creep very easily. So if you want to learn how to message someone on Facebook without being creepy, you are in luck because that is precisely what we are addressing in this article....

Modern horror master Mike Flanagan has so far directed seven feature films, and here’s how they stack up against each other, worst to best. There’s a certain pantheon of directors that are eternally revered within the horror genre. Names like James Whale, Wes Craven, Dario Argento, John Carpenter, and George Romero. While it may be too early yet to consider currently working directors for that exalted class, two from the modern era seemingly headed there are James Wan and Mike Flanagan....

Melissa McCarthy has quickly become one of the most popular actors working in comedy today. Though she seemed to come out of nowhere with her meteoric rise to fame, she has had a long and varied career. And while she’s had success on television with the series Mike & Molly, she has been especially successful in the movie business. McCarthy has certainly proven that she can get big laughs, but she also knows how to choose good projects....

Microsoft Launches New Windows Insider Program for Business Users Previously, Microsoft’s engagement with IT pros for feedback was exclusive to large organizations participating in the company’s Windows Technology Adoption Program (TAP). Opening up Windows 10 feedback to a much broader audience of technology professionals empowers organizations and individuals to gain insights and also have an impact on the direction of the product. Getting early access to enterprise technologies slated for upcoming Windows releases also lets IT pros identify and work out any bugs or compatibility issues ahead of time....

Since 2013, Microsoft has consistently offered something it called its “Accredited Support Professional Program” for iOS and Mac users. Essentially, this program allowed the company to train and accredit Apple techs and consultants on Microsoft Office for Mac and iOS. In the past, the courses have been conducted alongside the MacTech events across various cities and states. This year, however, there’s no sign of Microsoft offering its Accredited Support program, despite the release of Office 2016 for Mac....

Secure Shell allows a user to run commands on a machine’s command prompt without without having to be physically present near the machine. Furthemore, it’s also possible to establish a secure channel over an insecure network in a client-server architecture, thus connecting an SSH client application with an SSH server. The SSH library used by Windows will be OpenSSH and Microsoft said it plans to contribute to the core library, as well....

New Windows 10 Cumulative Updates If you’re running Windows 10 October 2018 Update your patch will come in the form of KB4516077 and will bump your build to 17763.774. Here’s a look at the highlights at what’s fixed and improved with the update according to Microsoft: Allows Microsoft Edge to print PDF documents that contain landscape and portrait-oriented pages together correctly.Updates an issue that doesn’t provide a cursor when you select a text input box using touch....

Through the Microsoft Teams forum, Teams Engineering has confirmed to a user that Microsoft is working on automatically recording meetings. This feature would come to the Mac version of Microsoft Teams as well. As first spotted by Windows Latest, Microsoft Teams will soon receive a top-requested feature that, for no reason at all, doesn’t exist yet. Zoom, for example, has always offered the ability to automatically record meetings, but Microsoft Teams does not....

The M1 note was launched in China back in December 2014 for around $160, and was touted as an iPhone 5C clone by some people within the industry. Although Meizu is relatively new to the smartphone OEM space, it has managed to do quite well in China taking on the biggies like Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo. They follow similar business strategy as Xiaomi, by pricing their products competitively and cutting down the costs on marketing by taking the social media and forum routes....

Android is an Open Source Linux-based platform where customization and tweaks are easy to implement. Therefore, if your Meizu X8 (M852Q / M852h) device has bricked due to some issues or improper flashing, follow the full guide. Most of the Meizu devices come with Mediatek and Qualcomm chipset and Meizu X8 uses Qualcomm. It comes out of the box with Android 8.0 Oreo OS and offers great value for money. In case, if you have rooted or installed any mods or custom ROM on your Meizu X8 handset and want to go back to the Stock ROM, you can follow how to flash the firmware files on Meizu X8....

Men in Black: International have jumped on the bandwagon, becoming the latest to poke fun at the recent Game of Thrones mistake. Last Sunday’s episode saw the characters mourning their dead and celebrating their defeat of The Night King and his army of the dead. It didn’t take long, however, for the remaining forces to turn their gaze south towards the ever-lingering threat posed by Cersei Lannister. The same couldn’t be said for the audience, however....

Michael Keaton’s already playing one of 2017’s biggest bad guys as Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and he’s now in talks to repeat that as the villain of the Dumbo remake. Tim Burton’s live-action version of Disney’s fourth animated feature has been a strange proposition; on the one hand, the director was the catalyst for the studio’s recent move into readaptations of its classics with Alice in Wonderland, but on the other his distinct style is a bold one for such a wide-eyed classic tale....

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Microsoft just released the Office 365 iOS application (iPhone only), allowing 365 subscribers to “access, view and edit … Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint documents from virtually anywhere”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDR150tAOkk Of note, Microsoft is currently running a commercial and online campaign touting the Windows 8 RT tablets’ ability to edit Office documents (they claim that the iPad can only read documents rather than edit them). It seems that Microsoft violated the letter of this ad campaign and the spirit while somehow still giving Apple folks a sub-par experience....

After making a preview available to Windows users earlier in the summer, Redmond-based Microsoft announced the official Office 2013 (or Office 365, as Microsoft likes to put it) pricing. Microsoft is taking an interesting approach with its latest Office version by pushing heavy for a subscription price rather than a one-time purchase (though it is still available). The subscription version of Office 2013 will be available for $8.33 a month or $99....