Tag: Microsoft
ICYMI – Microsoft Definitely Never Said You Want 32GB Of RAM To Run Win11
Microsoft is living in it's own world and loves reminding their customers of this fact for some strange reason. They inject AI into things in Win11 which make absolutely no sense, such…
Read MorePodcast #866 – Intel Stock Hits Record High, Microsoft Fixes Update, ROG Equalizer, bye GALAX, cPanel hacked, Denuvo cracked and MORE!
Intel is making BANK on their stocks, but still not getting respect on their CPUs, GALAX is shutting down (mostly), Microsoft is trying REALLY hard now, does ASUS have the 12vhpwr cabling…
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Microsoft Gives Windows Update A New Pause Button
Microsoft are improving your Windows Update experience in four ways, unfortunately none of them are improved testing to ensure they don't regularly release updates which bork your PC. Instead they will add a…
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Stealing Your Data Via TotalRecall Reloaded Is A Feature, Not A Bug?
Microsoft did score some points by ensuring their security nightmare disguised as a convenient way to recall what you were looking at on your PC in the past is now disabled by…
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Quelle Surprise, Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out
A privacy search engine called webXray conducted an audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic, specifically checking for the presence of ad cookies that were dropped onto machines which had already…
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Microsoft Copilot Was Injecting Ads Into GitHub Pulls Requests And Merges
There were more than a few developers flabbergasted to find out Copilot had injected advertisements into the descriptions of GitHub pull requests they made recently. Microsoft was injecting ads for...
Read MorePodcast #861 – Intel Core Ultra Plus Review, Big Battlemage, ARM Makes Chips, US Router Ban, Q Day coming, and Jensen says…, plus MORE!
Jensen says DLSS 5 is not AI Slop and you're wrong. Intel has some value in the CPU space again! Plus Big Battlemage did come, but you won't get one, and ARM…
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Microsoft Offers Lip Service And Some Hope To Windows 11 Users
Microsoft are starting to realize that the improvements they've been forcing upon Windows 11 users are not popular. It's only taken a few years for them to realize that outside of the…
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Finally Some Good News For Copilot 365 Victims
Microsoft was prevented from spreading their Copilot nightmare across the European Economic Area in December of 2025, while the rest of us pretty much had to live with the fact it was…
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Leveraging Copilot In Excel To Steal Data Without Any User Interaction
Patch Tuesday has come and gone once more and this time it contained a doozy of a patch, not that it was communicated willingly to customers. This has become standard practice at…
Read MorePodcast #859 – Driver Woes, NVIDIA’s 9GB GPU, Xbox Prompts PlayStation PC Exit, DDR5 Bots, CA age verify + MORE!
The second of two glorious episodes published this week! Bask in my mistake. (Brett isn't here this week, something about a power failure) Nvidia discovers that you probably cannot vibe code drivers, Number…
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Microsoft Copilot Will Soon Change Your Entire Browsing Experience, By Default
Microsoft continues it's war against it's users, trying to force Copilot down their throats regardless of whether we want to use it or not. The latest assault was revealed in an Insiders…
Read MorePodcast #856 – ASRock BIOS Fix, 700W Intel CPU? HP Rents Gaming Laptops, Homelab Bling, Discord Drama, Microsoft “Quality” + MORE!
Another week, another series of distressing developments in the world of PC hardware. But maybe the end of the madness is near? Or at least hotter with 700W Intel CPUs. BTW, you're…
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We’re Innocent, It Was Family Safety Parental Controls That Blocked Other Browsers!
While it is certainly difficult to prove intent in this case, Microsoft certainly seems to be doing everything they can to promote Edge, their extremely unpopular web browser. There are numerous Microsoft…
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Microsoft’s Abysmal Communication About The Windows 11 26H1 Release
Yesterday Microsoft delivered a short notification to those that subscribe to their Message Centre that was incredibly short on details but certain to cause a large reaction. It stated that Windows 11…
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Updating The Expiring Secure Boot Certificates Is Sure To Go Without A Hitch
The root certificates used for Microsoft's Secure Boot, to ensure only signed and trusted bootloaders are allowed to launch on UEFI devices expire in June. This is for any and all devices…
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Microsoft Accepts Their Desperate Need For An Engineering Quality Czar
It has been just two days since the live broadcast of the latest PCPer podcast and it seems Microsoft and Satya Nadella finally took our advice. We have been stressing the need…
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A Handy Guide To Make Windows 11 Less Awful
Windows 11 continues to provide a never ending source of frustration for those of us that know how we want our computer set up and are willing to fight to make it…
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