News
Could One of These Images Be the Next Iconic Windows Wallpaper?
Seven photographers submitted landscape shots in the spirit of the original "Bliss" background.
Microsoft
News
Goodbye and Good Riddance, Internet Explorer
Microsoft has finally retired the world’s most hated browser after 27 years.
Art
Microsoft’s New Emotion-Detecting App Deems the Mona Lisa 43% Happy
Microsoft's Project Oxford photo research division has just released a new demo of a tool that detects emotions in photographed faces using machine-learning techniques.
In Brief
Micro-very-very-soft: Audio Lab Crowned World’s Quietest Place
What do you hear in the quietest place on Earth?
Opinion
Microsoft HoloLens Renders the Internet in 3D
The cyberpunk literary tradition anticipated a series of real-world technical developments in which the digital and the spatial converge.
In Brief
In Honor of the Death of Clip Art, a Brief Illustrated History of Clip Art
A major source of raw materials for board room presentations and net art projects is about to go dry: Microsoft announced on Monday that it is discontinuing Clip Art.