Xbox beta app for Windows 10 gets social

Microsoft released the latest update for its Xbox beta app on Windows 10. Now it comes with better social sharing tools including a new Facebook friend finder. This feature looks through your Facebook friends list to identify if anyone has Xbox Live accounts that you can add. You just need to link your Facebook account with your Xbox Live account. The game DVR feature gets a boost as well as it now allows you to record yourself narrating as you play, instead of having to do that in a video editing app.

The Xbox store also gets overhauled. It has improved search functionality and code redemption, among its new features.

Source: PCWorld | Download: Microsoft Store (Free)

Microsoft introduces Creative Classes With Surface Pro 4 at Fashion Week

By Sonya Davidson

Each year brings a flurry of interesting brand activations during World MasterCard Fashion Week. We often see the expected beauty giants but this year Microsoft secured planting with a great hands-on interactive Surface Studio.

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Meet the new Microsoft, a maker of premium hardware products

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By launching its own Apple-esque spread of super-desirable and sexy handsets, tablets, notebooks and wearables, Microsoft can show the world ideal products that work best with its software and services. 

Windows 10 might have been made available for free, but enjoying the optimal Windows 10 experience on Microsoft's new devices is going to cost you.

Microsoft just unloaded a kaboodle of new hardware and none of them can be considered cheap, even if the unified OS which they run, Windows 10, is one of the most accessible and available operating systems in the market today. Since it launched eight weeks ago, Windows 10 has been installed in over 110 million devices by users hoping to exorcise the demons left behind by Windows 8 on their PC's, 2-in-1's and tablets.

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Microsoft teases HoloLens reveal at tomorrows's device launch event

While expected to be a launch event for the Surface Pro 4, new Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL devices plus updated notebooks. It seems tomorrow's Microsoft Fall launch event in NYC will also involve some Hololens announcements. Considered by many Windows watchers to still be two-years away from actual commercial production (the early prototype shown was strapped to a massive battery and remote processors), HoloLens migth be farther along than we all thought. The augment reality headset integrates real world surroundings with high-resolution projections (i.e. Minecraft constructs on your living room set).

HoloLens is the one undeniable innovation Microsoft has that's exciting and full of possibilities not just in computing but in gaming, pratical training, education and even mission critical applications. Everyone wants to know where Microsoft is with this exciting product. The event kicks off at Tuesday October 6, at 10.00 AM Eastern time and will be viewable on Xbox devices at www.microsoft.com/october2015event