Collaborate Disseminate
In the coming weeks, both Amazon and Pandora are expected to upend the digital music industry and offer streaming services to consumers that start at just $5 per month. Will this be enough to disrupt the market leaders?
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Microsoft’s Groove has really stepped it up over the past year. But it’s still missing one key ingredient: Alone among the major music services, Groove doesn’t offer a family plan.
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Microsoft’s new Xbox One S isn’t just the premier video game console. It also offers an elegant solution for living room entertainment, providing access to many popular services and capabilities.
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Here’s a quick follow-up to my previous “Woku” articles. At this point, I can make two generalizations: While workable, the PC is still uneasy in the living room. And this didn’t qualify as a BYOPC project.
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Microsoft has steadily improved its once-lackluster Groove apps across multiple platforms this year. And now it’s done so on Xbox One, too, bringing a new user experience and background audio playback to its flagship console.
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Tech tidbits from around the web: Groove gets another nice update for Windows Insiders, Gears of War gets a gorgeous 4K trailer, the Lumia 650 is on sale too, and the HDHomeRun DVR app is now available now on Xbox One.
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For over two weeks now, I’ve secretly made a major change to my daily workflow and have been using as many Microsoft mobile apps on PC, tablet, and smartphone as possible. And my relative levels of success speak volumes, I think, to the state of Microsoft’s mobile efforts here in mid-2016.
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I’m tired of waiting for Microsoft to make what I think of as a “Woku,” a Windows-based Roku-type device that I can use inexpensively and elegantly access my Windows 10-based media apps and services. So let’s build one for ourselves.
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Tech tidbits from around the web. 8/11/2016 10:34:16 AM Note: I would have published some of this yesterday, but in a weird bit of timing, I signed off from the Windows Weekly podcast and the house—and, as it turns out, the neighborhood—lost power at that exact moment. Our power ended up being out for over three […]
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Microsoft continues to update Groove across various platforms. Today, those on the Windows Insider program can preview a coming update that improves Your Groove playlists and provides a way to once again edit song metadata.
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