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Arif Bacchus

Arif is a freelance technology writer for OnMSFT and Digital Trends. He has over five years of experience covering all things Microsoft, including Surface, Windows 10, Xbox, Microsoft 365, and more. He also writes how-to guides, op-eds, reviews, and loves to play with the latest tech --- Microsoft or not.

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Here are this year’s Imagine Cup World Wide Final judges

The Imagine Cup is a time for young student developers from all over the world to come to Seattle and…

Arif Bacchus · July 14, 2016 · 1 min read

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Adblock extension for Microsoft Edge updated

Back on May 9th of this year, Adblock and AdBlock plus finally made it’s way to Windows Insiders who use…

Arif Bacchus · July 14, 2016 · 1 min read

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Microsoft Garage app Sprightly for Android updated with more generous text limits

Back in February of this year, the Microsoft Garage team launched the Sprightly app for Android devices. Since then, the…

Arif Bacchus · July 13, 2016 · 1 min read

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Here’s how to get your free Kinect Adapter once you’ve picked up your Xbox One S, or pre-order now – onmsft.com

Back in June, and right after E3, we reported on the fact that the Xbox One S would require a…

Arif Bacchus · July 13, 2016 · 1 min read

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Check out the Huawei MateBook in this hands-on video – onmsft.com

Throughout the last few months, we have been closely covering the Huawei MateBook. Mollie Ruiz-Hopper, Editor-in-Chief of the Windows Blog,…

Arif Bacchus · July 13, 2016 · 1 min read

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Recap of of World Partner Conference: Facebook says Microsoft “got cool again” – onmsft.com

Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, WPC 2016, is officially well underway this week in Toronto. With over 15,000 attendees and 144…

Arif Bacchus · July 13, 2016 · 3 min read

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Microsoft Mobile unit in Vietnam sold to FoxConn subsidiary

Earlier this week we shared the news that Microsoft had made its Finnish phone unit closure and job cuts official.…

Arif Bacchus · July 13, 2016 · 1 min read

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Windows 10 SDK Preview updated with build 14388 release – onmsft.com

Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with the latest Windows 10…

Arif Bacchus · July 13, 2016 · 1 min read

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CraveTV launches its app for Xbox One Canadian users

If you're one of the folks who live in Canada and have a CraveTV Subscription, then we have some good…

Arif Bacchus · July 13, 2016 · 1 min read

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Forrester Consulting: Windows 10 reduces the costs of IT, security, and productivity

A new post done by Jason Leznek over at the Windows Blog is showing that Windows 10 is reducing the…

Arif Bacchus · July 12, 2016 · 2 min read