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OneDrive gets huge update on macOS

Usama Jawad — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:48:01 +0000

OneDrive just got a slick macOS makeover, and it might be the upgrade Mac users have been waiting for. Read more...

Teams for macOS gets native screen sharing experience

Usama Jawad — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:18:01 +0000

Teams for macOS has gained a rather interesting capability that allows users to leverage the native picker for screen sharing. However, there is one major limitation of this UX. Read more...

Microsoft Edge can now make desktop web apps feel more native

Usama Jawad — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has enabled a new API called Window Controls Overlay by default in Edge. It allows Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to feel more native through UX adjustments instead of focusing on performance. Read more...

WhatsApp on Windows ditches Electron in favor of UWP, now works standalone

Usama Jawad — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:56:01 +0000

WhatsApp has announced that its new app for Windows is now live. It ditches the web-based Electron framework in favor of Windows-native Universal Windows Platform (UWP) technologies. Read more...

Microsoft Teams now runs natively on Apple Silicon, rolling out generally

Usama Jawad — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:04:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the general availability of a Teams client that runs natively on Apple Silicon. The key benefit here is performance improvements as compared to running Teams on emulation. Read more...

Windows 10 for Phones will have native FLAC support

Usama Jawad — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:04:01 +0000

Windows 10 for Phones' first insider build is just around the corner. With just a couple of weeks to go, Joe Belfiore has revealed that the OS will natively support FLAC in future builds. Read more...

Mozilla reveal their Firefox OS 'Flame' phone, now available for preorder

Daniel Hull — Wed, 28 May 2014 17:08:48 +0000

Mozilla has finally released their native Firefox OS handset, available for under $200. The phone is available for preorder now and features respectable specifications for the competitive pricing. Read more...

Eee PCs to support native Windows 7 Mobile Broadband

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:33:44 +0000

In January, Asus debuted an ultra thin netbook S121 running Windows 7, equipped with 1.33GHz Intel Atom microprocessor, touch mode software on Windows 7 & world's largest 512GB SSD. Now Asus will be offering world's... Read more...

Windows 7 to add native support for Virtual Hard Disks

Sun, 25 May 2008 16:06:23 +0000

Out of what little we know of the next version of Windows, this feature might just be the most interesting yet. A team at Microsoft is hiring developers to work on adding native support in... Read more...

OpenOffice to be Native Mac App

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:37:57 +0000

Microsoft Office alternative, OpenOffice, will ship in a native version for OS X next month. OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites,... Read more...

Native PDF support in Office 12

Tom Warren — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:10:01 +0000

Steven Sinofsky (Senior Vice President, Microsoft Office) has announced that Microsoft is planning to build in native support for the PDF format in Office "12". The PDF support will be built into Word,... Read more...

GammaChrome – Native PCI Express Architecture, Says S3

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:07:43 +0000

Officials for S3 Graphics in Fremont, California, denied Friday the forthcoming GammaChrome visual processing units did not sport native PCI Express connectivity. The new graphics products from S3 Graphics will feature new architecture and native... Read more...

Nvidia native PCI Express comes in Q3

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:48:42 +0000

GRAPHICS FIRM Nvidia has already introduced its PCI Express but you can still not do anything with those cards since you can not plug it anywhere. Nvidia is using its famous HIS chip, for building... Read more...