Tag: Microsoft
Handy Tips On Cleaning Up Windows 11 25H2
The release of Windows 11 25H2 have inspired Ars Technica to update their guide on how to unclutter Microsoft's latest OS to get rid of the features you don't want. ...
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Weird Authentication Failures? Could Be That Microsoft Doesn’t Like Duplicate SIDs Anymore
This recent patch Tuesday added an unexpected new feature to Windows, the enforcement of unique SIDs across systems. If you dared clone an image onto a second machine on your network, or…
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And When You’re Down Here With Windows 11 OOBE … YOU’RE ONLINE TOO
Say goodbye to one of the last ways you could activate Windows 11 and avoid linking it to an online account. The start ms-cxh:localonly command has now been deprecated, much like the…
Read MorePodcast #838 – Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, Another Unlikely Intel Investor, CRT Revivals, Brave Security, EA Buyout + MORE!
Matching up the audio this week for a change of pace! That Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme sometimes compares favorably, there's a new Kindle Scribe and you will never guess who's coming to…
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Microsoft Enables Shadow IT By Letting People Sneak Their Personal Copilot Into Work
There has been a new and frustrating challenge for IT teams that just got worse, trying to prevent LLMs from stealing proprietary data. The easy part is setting up a firewalled version…
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Microsoft Is Investigating Adding Tiny Channels To CPUs For Cooling Via Microfluidics
Microsoft, that company which is not exactly famous for designing the most popular CPUs on the planet, thinks they've come up with something cool. They envision etching tiny channels into the silicon…
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It’s The End Of Win10 As We Know It
The countdown has been going for quite some time but we are now down to the final days of Win10 and older non-Cloudy Office versions. If you are running local versions of…
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Your SSD May Have Issues, But It’s Not Caused By Microsoft’s Recent Patch
Microsoft, along with Phison, have been conducting extensive tests to determine why drives which are over half full are failing during large copy operations. The one thing that does seem to be…
Read MorePodcast #834 – Win 11 Breaking SSDs, SoftBank Buys Into Intel, 720Hz OLED, Thrustmaster Hypercar, Cracking Abandonware, Asus 800w RTX 5090 + MORE!
This podcast is what happens when worlds collide. Such as Windows and SSDs. Or Microsoft and listening to users. Or Softbank and Intel. Oh, you want more? How about 720p and 720Hz…
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Oops, We Broke OBS Too!
The most recently discovered issue with Microsoft's latest batch of patches isn't quite as bad as storage devices you aren't allowed to move data to but it is certainly upsetting a lot…
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Microsoft Asking All Their Beta Testers … Err Customers … To Report Drive Failures Caused By KB5063878
Yesterday we saw reports of a variety of drives including Corsair Force MP600, Maxio SSD, SanDisk Extreme Pro, Kioxia Exceria Plus G4, and the Kioxia M.2, among others. These drives have either…
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Be Gentle With Phison Powered SSDs Until The Latest Windows 11 24H2 Patch Stops Executing Them
This Patch Tuesday has been a rough one for Windows users, with numerous issues affecting users that were responsible and updated their OS. Among other things the updates has broken...
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Daydreaming Of A Microsoft That Listens To Its Users
The Register is visiting a parallel dimension this morning, one where we don't live in perpetual confusion about who it is that Microsoft is taking advice from when they add new Windows…
Read MorePodcast #833 -RX 9060 Non-XT Benchmarks, Goodbye to X3D on AM4, Arm News, Bioshock 4, GitHub & Microsoft + More!
Join us as we turn a slow news week into the podcast event of the decade. Hackable smartphones, AOL dialup, Android tablets w/o Google, Microsoft more fully embraces GitHub, GPU sales on…
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Microsoft Wants You To Dictate Your Excel Spreadsheets Again
Microsoft is certainly consistent when it comes to ignoring their customers desires and in their utter refusal to learn from the past. Case and point is the recent podcast featuring Pavan Davuluri,…
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Windows 11 SE Is Still A Thing, But Not For Long
Windows 11 SE, not to be mistaken for S-mode in normal Windows 11, is actually still around. The lower cost version of the OS which comes preinstalled on Surface devices and some…
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Is Microsoft Pushing Windows 11 Into Malware Territory?
There are a lot of people getting frustrated with the direction Microsoft has taken with Windows 11, not that Redmond seems to care at all. The features they've been adding are more…
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Mixed Messaging From Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella sent message to the remaining employees at Microsoft, or perhaps Copilot did. There have so far been 15,000 people let go in 2025, which is approximately 4% of their workforce,…
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