Tag: Microsoft
Opinion: Windows 11 System Requirements Actually Make Sense
Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jun 30, 2021 | General Tech | 9
Making Excel Less Of An XXL Risk By Blocking Free Roaming XLL Files
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 23, 2023 | General Tech | 0
If you aren't familiar with them Microsoft Excel XLL files are DLLs which contain executable files and are treated by Excel as add-ins. These can be incredibly handy for frequent users of…
Read MoreMicrosoft Working On A Mobile Super App
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 6, 2022 | General Tech | 0
Microsoft is working on closing their mobile store gap, several years after bailing on their mobile business completely. In order to try to compete against Apple and Google they are intending to…
Read MoreWindows 11 Slowing You Down? There’s A Patch For That
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 30, 2022 | General Tech | 1
With the arrival of 22H2, bearing the same name for both Windows 11 and Windows 10, those on the newer operating system have been reporting some problems. The gamers out there will…
Read MoreProject Volterra Surfaces; An ARM Powered Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 28, 2022 | General Tech | 0
The history of ARM powered Microsoft devices is not a happy one. This has amused quite a few people considering that ARM powers more devices on this planet than any other processor…
Read MoreA Year And A Bit Of Windows 11
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 4, 2022 | General Tech | 1
It has been just over a year since Windows 11 was released to the public and currently 15.44% of machines are running it. The good news for Redmond is that they've gained…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Windows Dev Kit 2023 Is Definitely Not A Surface Device
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 26, 2022 | General Tech | 0
Microsoft have finally released the Windows Dev Kit 2023, which physically resembles a docking station but can do far more. The tiny PC is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon...
Read MoreWindows 11, If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 12, 2022 | General Tech | 0
Welcome to Windows 11, unless you just set up new Microsoft logins to either license a new machine or to add users to an existing one. It seems that KB5016691 comes with…
Read MoreWindows 11, Now With Wi-Fi Hotspots And ARM Support … Again
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 27, 2022 | General Tech | 0
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,…
Read MoreTempting Us By Bringing The Good Features Back To Sound Recorder To Windows 11
by Jeremy Hellstrom | May 11, 2022 | General Tech | 0
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...
Read MoreMicrosoft Adding A 1GB Per Month VPN To Edge
by Jeremy Hellstrom | May 2, 2022 | General Tech | 1
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...
Read MoreConfidential GPU Computing, NVIDIA’s Cloud Gets An Azure Lining
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 25, 2022 | General Tech | 0
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…
Read MoreA New Look For Windows 11
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 11, 2022 | General Tech | 2
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!
by PCPer Staff | Feb 5, 2022 | General Tech | 0
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!
by PCPer Staff | Jan 29, 2022 | General Tech | 0
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!
by PCPer Staff | Jan 23, 2022 | General Tech | 1
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…
Read MoreTask Manager On Windows 11 Joins Fluent Design And Loses It’s Ability To Talk To Other Apps
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 21, 2022 | General Tech | 0
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. …
Read MoreMicrosoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Billion USD
by Sebastian Peak | Jan 18, 2022 | General Tech | 8
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...
Read MoreMicrosoft Continues The Control Panel Shuffle On Windows 11
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 17, 2021 | General Tech | 0
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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