Microsoft’s phone business is in free fall
Still, the company is making money. Revenue was $20.5 billion while net profit was $3.8 billion. Microsoft also saw growth from its Surface segment, which grew by $1.1 billion over the past three months. That’s up 61 percent year-over-year. The company credited the surge in Surface sales to the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book, but there’s no word in its report exactly how many of those tablet computers it sold. Windows...
Evernote on Windows looks a whole lot cleaner now
Tweaks to how searching among your myriad Evernote missives works are here as well and you can tag stuff by color too, sort of like the system-wide tagging feature on Mac OS X. Speaking of which, the blog post makes no mention of when this will hit Apple’s desktop OS. For now you’ll just have to be happy that last month’s patch finally added the ability for zooming in and out. Visit link: Evernote on Windows looks a...
Opera is the first big web browser with a built-in VPN
The preview version only gives you three simulated locations for the VPN (Canada, Germany and the US), so this won’t give you access to a whole lot until the finished browser is ready. However, the VPN is free. If all you want is to access a forbidden streaming service or make it harder for snoops to monitor your traffic, this might be your easiest and most affordable solution. Read more: Opera is the first big web browser with...
Windows 10 Mobile preview lets you text from your PC
In the same update, Microsoft has eliminated Skype Integration from Windows Mobile messaging in favor of an upcoming Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version of the app. Microsoft was originally keen to integrate the widely used video and voice chat app with Windows 10’s messaging service, and released a preview late last year. However, it abandoned that idea last month, saying folks “want to eliminate app clutter,”...
Guile is coming to ‘Street Fighter V’ this month
Sure, a new, fan-favorite fighter is a welcome addition, but all the Sonic Hurricanes in the world won’t fix how much of a mess the game’s online battles are. Well, to address the plague of rage-quitters in the community, the jerks will be locked out of matchmaking for “a period of time.” Capcom doesn’t have a timeline for when that will be available, but says that the system will constantly evolve. The...
