AltspaceVR might well be the foundation for social interaction in VR. When we first heard about it last year, CEO Eric Romo described the platform as “Skype with presence,” but it’s evolved since then. A few days after the launch of the Oculus Rift consumer HMD , AltspaceVR announced that its virtual platform would support […]
Microsoft is bringing together its Windows and Xbox app stores. This summer, with the release of Windows 10’s Anniversary update, the two stores will be combined into one, creating “a single unified store across devices,” says Xbox lead Phil Spencer. It’s a natural next step for Windows 10. Microsoft has been planning all along to […]
Perhaps now would be a good time to take Microsoft up on its offer to upgrade to Windows 10 from older platforms, because its Windows 10 Anniversary Edition is coming this summer, and it will be free–to existing Windows 10 users. From the keynote stage at Microsoft Build, Terry Myerson said that the Anniversary Edition […]
AMD updated its Radeon Software Crimson Edition to version 16.3.2, which features several bug fixes in addition to support for the most recent Oculus Rift SDK and a new GPU. That GPU would be the recently unveiled AMD Radeon Pro Duo, a dual-GPU board capable of delivering up to 16 TFlops of compute performance. The […]
When Nvidia releases a new “Game Ready” driver, it’s usually for a single, high-profile game. But its latest driver covers VR devices as well as a collection of new titles coming out over the next few weeks. With today being the launch day of the Oculus Rift, Nvidia’s latest driver—version 364.72—is optimized for the VR […]
Enterprise system administrators can now block attackers from using a favorite malware infection method: Microsoft Office documents with malicious macros. Microsoft this week added a new option in Office 2016 that allows administrators to block macros—embedded automation scripts—from running in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents that originate from the Internet. Microsoft Office programs support macros […]
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that Windows 7’s support for Intel’s latest CPU, codenamed Skylake, would end by mid-2017. The announcement was controversial for several reasons: Not only have some users been unhappy with Windows 10 and Microsoft’s privacy and telemetry tracking, extended support for Windows 7 on other platforms doesn’t end until January 4, […]
Microsoft has made a new build of Windows 10 available to mobile phones and PCs alike. Build 14291 makes significant changes to several important features. First, the Edge browser now supports extensions. Though this feature is limited to PCs, it makes the browser more competitive with Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari. The Edge browser also […]
Google has updated its Hangouts app for Google Apps (business) customers and increased the number of people allowed on a single video call from 15 to 25. Users don’t have to do anything to take advantage of this change, though only the 10-most active participants’ video windows will be visible at one time.
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is on track to land a series of key certifications in its continuing effort to provide cloud services to the U.S. government. Matt Rathbun, a cloud security director at Microsoft, said in a blog post that the company was part of a pilot creating the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program […]
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