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you may find some windows apps on your next Android I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene at update some of Microsoft's biggest productivity apps will be pre-loaded on select Android devices later this year that includes skype onedrive for storage OneNote and other office apps like Word Excel and PowerPoint Microsoft made agreements with several device makers including Samsung and Dell hey if Microsoft can't get you to buy a Windows Phone it'll bring windows apps to your Android phone or tablet in some cases it's a pretty good value when it includes a year trial of office 365 worth a hundred dollars this could also help encourage more Android users to upgrade to Windows 10 on PCs when it comes out this summer Microsoft has taken a slightly different approach to software you get windows for free in hopes that you'll start paying for subscriptions to office and other services but a Microsoft executive has said that any device for the screen less than 10 inches like a phone will not have to pay for office but let's say you don't want more pre-installed apps on your devices and I don't blame you there's so much bloatware that you can't delete these days but screenshots posted on a developers forum show that the new Samsung Galaxy s6 phones will let you uninstall or disable some preloaded samsung and google apps these are apps you couldn't previously delete in settings like s health s voice YouTube gmail even the Google Play App Store can be deleted if for some strange reason you wanted to do that in other news Amazons fire TV stick is adding a new feature that no other video streaming device has a way to use it in a hotel room when you're connecting to Wi-Fi in a place like a hotel or dorm you are forced to visit another website to verify your username to be granted access and that makes it impossible to use a device like the chromecast or Roku stick which demand a very simple Wi-Fi name and password to set up amazon stick now has captive portal Wi-Fi access to get you past that authentication page so you can plug it into an HDMI port in the back of the TV to start streaming video when you're away from home the fire TV stick is also being updated to work with bluetooth headphones so you can listen to the TV in private the update to the fire TV stick is rolling out over the next couple of weeks and the fire TV box will be getting the same feature the stick cost forty dollars and it's coming to the UK in Germany April fifteenth and in social media news Twitter announced its working with four squared to let you tag your tweets with specific locations right now Twitter shows your general location if you have it turned on but soon you can be much more specific and use four squares database of 65 million places you can also click on a place to see what other tweets were posted at that location there's no date yet for when it will launch that's your tech news update and you can stay updated at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey