15th of March 2013 09:55 GMT
This isn’t the first time when Skype is accused of serving as a tool to spy on users in a specific country, but a new cyber censorship report published by Reporters Without Borders names Microsoft as one of the three companies that are often helping authorities do this. Skype, Blue Coat Systems and Chinese IM ...
18th of February 2013 12:41 GMT
Microsoft has recently announced that Windows Live Messenger would be officially retired on April 8, but the company is now sending out emails to all registered users to inform them about the change. Windows Live Messenger will be discontinued in early April for English language clients, while Brazilian Portuguese u...
31st of January 2013 08:34 GMT
Windows users who would like to disable the automatic delivery of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 browser via Automatic Updates (AU) feature of Windows Update (WU) can now do so. The company has made available for download a toolkit to disable this automatic delivery of IE10, available for all systems runnin...
29th of January 2013 09:23 GMT
Owners of PCs running under Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows 7 platform versions, as well as those who purchased Windows RT devices, can now download a new theme to customize their desktops, namely the Ancient Egypt theme. Just as its name suggests, the new theme will take users in a virtual journey to the w...
29th of January 2013 05:36 GMT
With over 40,000 apps already available for download for the owners of Windows 8 and Windows RT computers, Microsoft’s Windows Store is picking up steam, and the company is making sure that this continues. The company has just announced a new feature available for app builders with software submitted for appr...