Parallels, a popular virtualisation software, has released Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac available as an update for existing users and for new ones alike. With this update, Parallels now supports DirectX 11 on Windows virtual machines by using Apple's proprietary Metal graphics API. This improvement in graphics support will bode
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It's strange - the most number of products launched at a single Microsoft event, and the product that sticks the most: a pair of headphones. [caption id="attachment_134027" align="alignleft" width="2120"] The Microsoft Surface Headphones. Image: Microsoft[/caption] But it's not just any pair of headphones. In Microsoft Surface's characteristic grey-white colour scheme,
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Lightweight, compact and powerful, the Microsoft's Surface Go is aimed at busy professionals. Microsoft's launch of the Surface Go in Singapore brings their popular Windows ecosystem into a travel-friendly 10-inch form factor, perfect for professionals and everyday productivity. Announced in the US at a price of USD 399 (SGD 543),
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In a blog post earlier this week, Microsoft announced its intention to add support for leap seconds in the next major update to Windows 10, likely coming in October, as well as its next upcoming version of Windows Server, Windows Server 2019. This will be done through the implementation of
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Lightweight, compact and powerful, the 10-inch Microsoft's Surface Go is aimed at busy professionals. After plenty of rumours and speculation, Microsoft's launch of the Surface Go entrenches its Surface line into a new product category, one between the popular iPad Pro and its own line of 2-in-1 Surface Pro devices.
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"Surface Phone", "Surface Mini": Microsoft has been working in secrecy on a mysterious device for two years, and it has racked up plenty of monikers. Internally codenamed Project Andromeda, it appears to be a portable device with two screens joined with a hinge. Microsoft's Surface has been at the forefront
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Despite the growing ubiquity of competitors like Chrome in the past few years, Microsoft has been trying to shift more users to adopt Edge as their primary browser. Edge was launched along with Windows 10, back in 2015, replacing the venerable Internet Explorer as the default browser for Windows. While
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2018 had begun on a sour note with the Spectre and Meltdown bugs in January. Barely half a year has passed, and Google, Intel and Microsoft have acknowledged the existence of another CPU flaw that could potentially affect all modern CPUs. New variants of the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown,
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Despite the ubiquity of Microsoft's operating systems on devices sold worldwide, Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri have dominated the attention of the public when it came to consumer-oriented artificial intelligence. Microsoft's Cortana, named after its eponymous AI character in the firm's Halo series, had been an integral feature on its
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With its characteristic kickstand and detachable keyboard, the Surface Pro line had been the face of Microsoft's Surface lineup. Its native stylus support and unparalleled portability had appealed to students, professionals and creatives alike. Just yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the Surface family for the first time in Singapore, in conjunction with
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Microsoft has recently announced that Surface Studio and Surface Book 2 will be coming to Singapore. In fact, they are now available for pre-order from the Microsoft store and authorised retailers Best Denki, Challenger, Courts, LOL by Epicentre, Harvey Norman and Newstead. You can also pre-order the Microsoft Surface Studio
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Sometimes, we just want a computer. The Microsoft's and Apples of the world are constantly trying to reinvent consumer devices. There are all manner of tablets, hybrids, phablets and 2 in 1's vying for your dollars, promising to be the way of the future. While many of these devices really
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Microsoft has finally launched the new Surface Pro in Singapore three months after the 2-in-1 convertible laptop was unveiled at an international media event in Shanghai China. The fifth generation Surface Pro 2017 features a new interior architecture as well as a streamlined external design with softer edges and cameras built
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Microsoft have unveiled the new Surface Pro during a press event in Shanghai on Tuesday. The Surface Pro replaces the ageing Surface Pro 4. Though it would be logical to assume it would be called the Surface Pro 5, Microsoft have removed the numeric designation and refer to it simply
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Microsoft's Surface devices have always been known as sleek powerful convertibles that never fail to wow the market. However, the brand new Surface Laptop doesn't even pack on a fluid touchscreen, but just a boring old conventional one. The new Surface Laptop will be armed with the new Windows 10S
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The much-awaited successor to the Surface Pro 4 could finally be here soon. A tweet sent out by Surface chief Panos Panay earlier today has revealed Microsoft’s plans of holding a dedicated Surface event in Shanghai on the 23rd of this month. While Panay did not divulge any other info
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Microsoft has announced that it is soon going to release the Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 15204 to insiders in the Fast Ring. However, the Windows 10 Creators Update will not be available to a large number of devices. Only 13 Windows 10 Mobile devices have been confirmed by
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If those annoying "suggested apps" ads on the Windows 10 Start menu weren't annoying enough, Microsoft is now putting ads for Office 365 in the File Explorer itself. It looks like the ads are starting to roll out to those on the beta version of the Creators Update, and are advertising
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As the year moves on, so does the technology industry. Sometimes so much happens at once it's impossible to keep track. This is very true with Virtual Reality, which seems to have found new life in this quarter. Last week we looked at a few new headset on the horizon.
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When talking about Virtual Reality, the press tends to talk about the main three or four. That depends on whether or not you consider Samsung's Gear VR a legitimate headset compared to the heftier versions on PC and PS4. This conversation is going to have to be broadened out soon
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