Tag: Microsoft
Anyone Interested In A $2600 Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft is now taking pre-orders for the Surface Laptop Ultra, an NVIDIA powered Copilot+ machine for those who want to be able to take their LLM on the road. The Surface Laptop…
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Would You Like To Learn More About Installing Windows 11 Locally
Windows 11 keeps trying to force you to create an online Microsoft account and people keep finding ways around it. Thankfully it seems that every time Microsoft finds out about one of…
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Microsoft’s Hilarious New Move, A Classic Outlook Skin For New Outlook
It is impossible to type these words with a straight face, especially when Microsoft finishes off with the hilarious punchline about how they are "seeing strong and accelerating adoption of new Outlook." …
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The Rebrand Registry, An Amusing Way To Keep Track Of Microsoft’s Renaming Addiction
The Rebrand Registry, possible once branded the Microsoft Product Lifecycle Tracker, is a tongue in cheek and somewhat accurate project by a Microsoft MVP which tracks the names of Microsoft...
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Windows 11 Runs Perfectly With 8GB Of RAM And Other Amusing Musings By Microsoft
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's executive VP for Windows and Devices who recently castigated LG for dumping non-Microsoft pop up advertising on Windows machines, now has posted some details on promised...
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Microsoft AI Security, AI-Cyber-1-Flash And Project Perception
Microsoft have done a yeoman's job with Windows Defender, going from a deservedly ridiculed attempt at malware protection to putting a serious dent in third party competition because of how effective it…
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Say Goodbye To LG Monitor App Installer’s McAfee Spam
LG's Monitor App Installer, which was mentioned on PCPer Podcast #877 thanks to the software automatically installing (and re-installing) on Windows systems the moment a new LG UltraGear is connected. ...
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Microsoft Is Sending Happy Mail To Windows 10 Users
Windows 10 users that opted to set up an online Microsoft account instead of a local account are now getting emails from Microsoft informing them of another year of Extended Security Updates. …
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The Horrors Of Windows 95 Program Installation Revealed
setup, install, inst, imposta, ayarla, and felrak. According to one of our favourite Microsoft old times, Raymond Chen, those were the magic words that Windows 95 looked for when deciding if a…
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Windows Market Share Is Falling
StatCounter tracks online OS usage via their tracking code, so their stats are for page views and is not a perfect measure of the actual computers and the OS they use. However…
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Surprise! Windows Backup Will Soon Exfiltrate Your Corporate Data
Along with the arrival of Windows 11 26H2, unless you are in the EU, comes yet another way Microsoft will help you violate your client agreements. Unless you have specifically disabled Windows…
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Sorry, Microsoft’s GitHub On A CD Isn’t A Thing
If you hadn't heard, GitHub made an offer that may or may not have been real at one point, but definitely isn't anymore. The original claim was that for the first 1000…
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Notepad- -, An Old Microsoft Engineer Brings Back Simplicity With TinyRetroPad
The name Dave Plummer might ring a bell, when with Microsoft he was one of the main designers of Task Manager and now runs the YouTube channel, Dave's Garage. His...
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Don’t Tell Anyone But Windows 10 Will Get Another Year Of Updates
If you are looking for the regularly scheduled horrific news you can find it below the fold, with Micron announcing that their memory pricing will remain sky high until at least 2030…
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The Attack Surface On Microsoft Surface Shrinks
Redmond found a new way to make use of Copilot, a way to brick Microsoft Surface devices with a single packet under certain circumstances. They've been quietly pushing BIOS updates to fix…
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Nightmare Eclipse And Microsoft Continue Their Fight Over Zero Days
A security researcher that goes under the moniker Nightmare Eclipse has been releasing Windows 0-day vulnerabilities to the web recently. They have all been quite horrifying in their scope and...
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Yet Another Windows Update Done In By The EFI System Partition
The EFI System Partition, better known as ESP, does exist and if you aren't familiar with it already you should never have to be. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't feel that way and
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Microsoft Edge Suddenly Remembered Storing Plain Text Passwords Is Bad, M’Kay
Microsoft is getting much better at reversing course; not so much at initially making wrong turns. The latest about face involves their Chrome download tool, also known as Microsoft Edge. It was…
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