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Microsoft is continually developing new functionality for the Band 2 – now you can use it hiking with a new Explore Tile and Microsoft Health is now a universal app that runs on Windows 10 desktop, tablet, and phones as well as iOS and Android.

Microsoft Band 2 has become the official smartwatch and fitness tracker for all three Australian events of the 2016 Tough Mudder - including South East Queensland, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Microsoft’s Band 2 - a fitness tracker with smart benefits - has been in the wild now for the past two months. Is it useful or a fad destined to occupy pride of place in the sock draw?

I am a groupie for the Band – Microsoft’s new crossover fitness/smartwatch Band 2.

‘It is not a smart watch. It’s a fitness tracker with benefits – lots of them’.

Windows 10 has surged past 200 million activated devices - up from November’s tally of 120 million. Along with that news is an expanded retail availabilty for Surface devices.

All the indications point to Microsoft having a very happy Christmas this year. Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 4 and its little brother the Surface 3 have ‘sold out’ in the US pre-Christmas rush - retailers can’t get enough.

Microsoft is coming to Sydney – 12 November – with its first ever flagship store outside the US. If you think Windows is ‘slick’ or ‘sick’ (in the modern context) come and worship it at the Pitt Street Mall.

Microsoft Band 2 could be the ubiquitous device you all need – it works equally well on iOS, Android and Windows.

Microsoft will unveil its newest Lumia Windows 10 phones, Surface Pro 4, Band 2 and more on 6 October 2015, which is 1am 7 October AEDT in Australia.