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Despite the fact that most people have not used one of Apple’s new MacBook Pros, there are some creative professionals — including graphic designers, photographers and video editors — who are already disappointed by them. For them, it’s all about the specs. Apple’s new machines don’t feature the latest Intel and Nvidia processors, don’t offer …

Apple’s MacBook Pro, the company’s newest model for power users, is generating vastly more revenue than the company’s ultralight laptop that debuted a year and a half ago, an e-commerce tracking firm says. The MacBook Pro revenue in its first five days has reached 78 percent of last year’s MacBook, Slice Intelligence said Tuesday. In addition, the new Mac has …

Chatting and collaborating with colleagues used to be all about watercoolers and whiteboards. These days it’s more about videoconferencing, email and at least one form of instant messaging. Microsoft is the latest company to jump on the work-chat bandwagon with the launch of Teams at a New York event Wednesday. Teams brings together chats, notes and planning with the intention …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft Teams’ tricks should make Slack nervous 1:41 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced the new Teams software at a New York press conference. John Falcone/CNET Microsoft unveiled its long-rumored collaboration tool Wednesday at an event in New York. Dubbed Microsoft Teams, it’s a forthcoming Office 365 component that adds a group chat tool to the company’s …

Remember Windows 10 for phones? Apparently, Alcatel does. The Chinese handset maker said on Tuesday a version of its Idol 4S phone equipped with Microsoft‘s operating system will head to T-Mobile on November 11. The phone will cost $470, and will include a pair of Idol 4S VR Googles. The company is also offering a 45-day trial of Hulu Plus …

Now playing: Watch this: What is Tango? 1:22 Google’s Tango was playing hard to get — but eventually, Lenovo captured its heart. Today, you can finally order the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the first phone with Google’s 3D-sensing Tango camera technology at its core. It measures objects just by looking at them. It’s the phone that could let you see …

Microsoft and Apple faced off with different ideas of the creative computing future last week, and in many ways Microsoft looked like more of the innovator. The new wheel-like Surface Dial, a larger Surface Studio touchscreen computer, an improved Surface Book, and a bold attack strategy regarding affordable virtual-reality headsets as a patient build-up to a broader mixed reality future …

Google Tango is here. The 3D-sensing camera technology is available on the new Lenovo Phab 2 Pro phone, offering users the chance to play augmented-reality games, measure objects by pointing a camera at them and adding virtual objects into real-world images. More Tango-powered phones are expected next year. Also on the podcast, we consider other accessories Microsoft could come out …

“We are the company that stands for the builders, the makers, the creators.” Sounds like a thing Apple might say, no? But those are the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — the guy who just ate Apple’s lunch. I’m not saying the new Microsoft Surface Studio and Surface Book will be incredibly popular computers. While the pen-equipped transforming computers …

The first time I saw the Touch Bar on Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops, I thought: hey, there’s a little strip of an iPad grafted onto that Mac. Macs don’t have touch. At this point, they’re the outliers in the computing world. Windows and Chrome touch computers have flooded the world for years, now. There are tablets. There are phones. …