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Microsoft hints at bringing Visual Studio to macOS, launch date unknown

It’s a sign of both Microsoft and Apple growing up to the point that they’re sharing development tools for each other’s platforms. Microsoft has announced that it will be launching Visual Studio, its primary coding interface, for macOS. This has been a long time coming, but it’ll allow developers to easily write for platform-independent cloud […]

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Tech media godfather David Bunnell remembered

On Tuesday, October 18th, technology journalist David Bunnell, who also founded PC Magazine, PC World and Macworld, passed away in his home in Berkeley, California. He was 69 years old. Bunnell, whose career included working at MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico, worked alongside Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Bunnell attended the University of […]

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Microsoft releases Pix, goes toe to toe with built-in iOS camera app

Microsoft is attempting to hone in on the iPhone camera’s turf. The tech giant’s research arm has launched Pix, which enhances the photos that users take in a variety of ways, on Wednesday morning. The app is designed to make photos look better and even improves on Appleā€™s Live Photos ability to capture scenes that […]

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Cortana intelligent assistant app now available in App Store

This could be something cool to play with. Microsoft, which has been offering Cortana as a small-scale beta since last month, has announced that Cortana is available on the App Store now. Even so, Cortana isn’t expected to have quite as deep a functionality as Siri, which is deeply embedded into iOS. Still, you can […]

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Microsoft Office 2016 users complain about bugs, crashes under OS X 10.11 El Capitan update

Well, this is a giant mess. Following the release of Apple’s new OS X 10.11 El Capitan on Wednesday, a number of users have complained of crashes with Office 2016 and the new operating system. “This is beyond the Pale. We basically can’t use Office on our computers,” wrote one user on the longest thread […]