Tag: Microsoft
Windows 11, Now With Wi-Fi Hotspots And ARM Support … Again
Windows 11 has had some rather serious problems with updates, much more publicly visible than other recent Microsoft operating systems. A recent patch, KB5014697, offered several challenges to anyone running the OS,…
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Tempting Us By Bringing The Good Features Back To Sound Recorder To Windows 11
Microsoft continues to search for innovative ways to convince people to beta test their new OS for free, the newest temptation is the restoration of old features to Sound Recorder...
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Microsoft Adding A 1GB Per Month VPN To Edge
A paper which Ars Technica spotted indicates plans Microsoft has to add a VPN to Edge sometime in the near future. The VPN is provided by Cloudflare and is limited...
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Confidential GPU Computing, NVIDIA’s Cloud Gets An Azure Lining
If you have been wondering how secure data being processed by GPUs on cloud solutions like Azure, or just how hard it will be to crack Skynet when it comes about this…
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A New Look For Windows 11
Ars Technica braced themselves for a new Windows 11 update, Build 22572, to see what has changed in Microsoft's new OS. The biggest change is the inclusion of tabs in Explorer, perhaps…
Read MorePodcast #662 – Two’s Day, End of GPU MSRPs, AMD Xilinx Deal, Sony Bungie Deal, EVGA XR1 Review + MORE!
It was a Wednesday like no other: a twos-day. 2/2/22. Now, we could have done an even MORE twos-day show on 2/22/22, but we didn't think that far ahead. Also, that hasn't…
Read MorePodcast #661 – Nvidia RTX 3050 Launch, DDR5 8888, ARM acquisition update, More Malware, Win 11 Task Manager, Steam Deck Shipping + MORE!
Another entry level GPU you cannot buy? Sure! Also looks like Nvidia probably will NOT be buying ARM to the great relief of ... many? DDR5 world record overclocking, Microsoft…
Read MorePodcast #660 – RX 6500 XT, MS with Activision Blizzard, EXYNOS 2200, TSMC Expands, Thinkpad P15 Mobile Review + MORE!
2022 is still here, so are we. Welcome to the second show this year, sorry it was late being posted here - I'm blaming the pandemic. The RX 6500 XT is a 4GB…
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Task Manager On Windows 11 Joins Fluent Design And Loses It’s Ability To Talk To Other Apps
CTRL-ALT-DEL was originally supposed to be a secret, but it's existence was quickly communicated among IT professionals and eventually just about everyone knew about it; something Microsoft has never forgotten nor forgiven. …
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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Billion USD
Yes. 68.7 BILLION DOLLARS. What more needs to be said? Well, Microsoft has a press release about this, available at the source link (or just click here), and I reproduced...
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Microsoft Continues The Control Panel Shuffle On Windows 11
If you are using Windows 11, or support those that do, you might soon need to do some digging to find the settings you once could expect to find under the Control…
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Happy Friday From Microsoft! Get Your Browser Back And A Better Start Menu
In the current version of Windows 11, if you want to reset your default browser to something other than Edge, after ignoring the message you get when downloading it, you need...
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IT Won’t Give You Admin? This Windows Installer Bug Can Fix That
There once was a zero day exploit called CVE-2021-41379, which let a user gain elevated access to a system with a malformed MSI-type installer. The exploit allowed them to delete files they…
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Windows on ARM, Not Just For Qualcomm Anymore?
There could be an interesting change in the market, if Microsoft and Qualcomm end their current deal which requires any and all ARM powered Windows computers to run on Qualcomm's hardware. There…
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Grab Your 70-Some Fixes For Windows 11
The new build 22000.346 for the Beta and Release previews of Windows 11 incorporates a huge list of fixes, some of which are described accurately by The Register as significant...
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Windows 10 Wasn’t The End Of OSes, But Is The End Of UWP
Microsoft's admission that the Universal Windows Platform has no future is a bit overdue. It is not jut because of the minimal adoption of the platform by programmers but also because it…
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Window 11 Known Issues And How To Install Them
If you like to live dangerously you can pop into your registry and create a DWORD called "AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU" under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup and set it to a value of 1. After doing...
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Would You Rather A Spinal Tap Or A Windows 11 ISO?
Ready or not, Microsoft have now made Windows 11 publicly available, and you can grab the Windows 11 ISO directly from them right here. If your system meets the...
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