This is Windows 10: all the news from Microsoft’s event – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2015-01-22T13:00:02+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/7630402 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 TC. Sottek <![CDATA[Microsoft is ready to be loved again]]> https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/22/7869679/love-in-a-time-of-windows-10 2015-01-22T08:00:02-05:00 2015-01-22T08:00:02-05:00

"We have bigger hopes, higher aspirations for Windows," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Wednesday, standing on a stage above a secret room filled with crazy holographic technology. "We want to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows, to loving Windows. That is our bold goal." He's right: love is a problem that Microsoft needs to solve.

Microsoft's last decade has been filled with missed "opportunities" and punctuated by occasional brilliance. Sometimes the future slipped through Microsoft's fingers and was caught by someone else; it took five years for the company to come up with an answer to the iPod, and its first response …

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]]> Sam Byford <![CDATA[Steve Ballmer still loves Microsoft]]> https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/22/7870501/steve-ballmer-thinks-microsoft-rocks 2015-01-22T01:09:55-05:00 2015-01-22T01:09:55-05:00

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn't use his Twitter account all that often; he has a curiously low return of just over 6,000 followers from 30 tweets. But when he does - true to form - things can get emotional. And today's no different: Ballmer weighed in on his former employer's torrent of announcements regarding Windows 10, which he thinks "rocks."

Although Ballmer probably wouldn't have made some of new CEO Satya Nadella's decisions, such as m …

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]]> Dieter Bohn Tom Warren <![CDATA[Up close with the HoloLens, Microsoft’s most intriguing product in years]]> https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7868251/microsoft-hololens-hologram-hands-on-experience 2015-01-21T18:28:24-05:00 2015-01-21T18:28:24-05:00

We just finished a heavily scripted, carefully managed, and completely amazing demonstration of Microsoft's HoloLens technology. Four demos, actually, each designed to show off a different use case for a headset that projects holograms into real space. We played Minecraft on a coffee table. We had somebody chart out how to fix a light switch right on top of the very thing we were fixing.

We walked on Mars.

You'll notice there aren't photos here, and that's because before we were even allowed into the labs where the HoloLens team tests out its user experiences, we had to deposit our cameras and phones into a locker. No recording equipment o …

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]]> Sean O'Kane <![CDATA[Windows Holographic will let NASA explore what Curiosity sees on Mars]]> https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7868635/windows-holographic-nasa-curiosity-rover 2015-01-21T17:20:48-05:00 2015-01-21T17:20:48-05:00

Microsoft announced the futuristic at-home augmented reality project Windows Holographic today, and one of the many different uses the company teased was a collaboration with NASA and the Curiosity rover team. Now, NASA has released more information on the software it built for Holographic, a program called OnSight.

By using Microsoft's HoloLens visor, NASA scientists will be able virtually explore the areas of Mars that Curiosity is studying in a fully immersive way. It will also allow them to plan new routes for the rover, examine Curiosity's worksite from a first-person view, and conduct science experiments using the rover's data.

NASA w …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[Microsoft’s HoloLens team is obsessed with motorcycles]]> https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/1/21/7868325/microsoft-hololens-team-really-loves-motorcycles 2015-01-21T16:29:22-05:00 2015-01-21T16:29:22-05:00

Microsoft's HoloLens headset is designed to bridge the gap between digital and real - and the best examples of that convergence are apparently all motorcycle-related. Case in point: The company released two videos presenting its vision of HoloLens, each showcasing things like playing Minecraft in a living room and walking on Mars. But mostly it's about designing and maintaining the perfect two-wheeler.

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]]> Micah Singleton <![CDATA[Take a look at Microsoft’s Surface Hub in action]]> https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7863319/microsoft-surface-hub-action-video 2015-01-21T14:48:13-05:00 2015-01-21T14:48:13-05:00

During its event earlier today, Microsoft showed off its Surface Hub, a new large screen multitouch device that runs Windows 10, and now you can watch it in action. Born out of Microsoft's 2012 acquisition of Perceptive Pixel, the Surface Hub is essentially a big TV (available in either 55-inch or 84-inch 4K variations) that accepts touch or pen input, run Office 365, and thanks to dual cameras, can run Skype for business. Microsoft still isn't saying how much it will cost, but since the company is targeting businesses, it probably won't be cheap.

Verge Video: Surface Hub Announcement and Demo

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]]> Adi Robertson Josh Dzieza <![CDATA[The 9 biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Windows 10 event]]> https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7865539/microsoft-windows-10-event-what-you-need-to-know 2015-01-21T14:44:41-05:00 2015-01-21T14:44:41-05:00

We got our first look at a bunch of features in Windows 10, which comes out next week for people who signed up for the pre-release. As expected, Microsoft made a strong push toward connecting its devices more seamlessly, part of its universal apps program. Office, Outlook, and other apps all work quite similarly across devices, and Cortana is everywhere, working as a natural-language interface and personal assistant. The big surprise, however, was Microsoft's foray into virtual reality, with its HoloLens glasses, an ambitious bid to create a system for overlaying holographic images over the real world.

The core of Windows 10, unveiled

New l …

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]]> Jacob Kastrenakes <![CDATA[Watch Microsoft’s HoloLens in action]]> https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7865701/hololens-video-preview-microsoft-ar-headset 2015-01-21T14:36:15-05:00 2015-01-21T14:36:15-05:00

Microsoft's event this afternoon may have focused on Windows 10, but the biggest news out of it was HoloLens - a headset that lets its wearer augment their world with apps, games, and other information. Since that's a difficult experience to convey on stage, Microsoft first presented its vision for what'll be possible with HoloLens in a pair of videos, both of which it's now published onto YouTube. You can watch the glasses' introduction above and an additional video speculating about their potential below. In case you haven't caught on, Microsoft has huge ambitions here: "This is the next generation of computing," one person says. "This is …

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]]> Chris Plante <![CDATA[The publisher of Grand Theft Auto 5 already tried HoloLens, called it ‘extraordinary’]]> https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7867841/take-two-rockstar-hololens-gta-5 2015-01-21T14:32:11-05:00 2015-01-21T14:32:11-05:00

In a November interview with Bloomberg TV, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick described his experience testing Microsoft's new VR headset, now believed to be HoloLens.

"The demo that I had was at Microsoft's headquarters in a room given over to this [technology], and you had an immersive headset on, and there are characters that appear to be real, and you're interacting with the characters and they're not real, and it's pretty extraordinary," said Zelnick.

At today's Windows 10 event, Microsoft showed HoloLens to the public for the first time. The headset produces an augmented reality experience, in which virtual screens can appear i …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[Watch Microsoft annotate The Verge with the new Windows 10 web browser]]> https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/1/21/7867321/watch-microsoft-annotate-the-verge-with-the-new-windows-10-spartan 2015-01-21T14:05:53-05:00 2015-01-21T14:05:53-05:00

When Microsoft unveiled Project Spartan, its new Windows 10 web browser, we couldn't help but notice one of the tabs was our report from early January. Sure enough, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore used the article to highlight Spartan's note-taking feature. "I saw this and I said, oh baby. Sometimes you guys don't get it right and sometimes you do." Hey, at least he has a good sense of humor about leaks.

(Note: any random skips in the video are us, not you.)

Check out our Windows 10 event live blog for more!

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