Tag: Microsoft
Making Excel Less Of An XXL Risk By Blocking Free Roaming XLL Files
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…
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Microsoft Working On A Mobile Super App
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…
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Windows 11 Slowing You Down? There’s A Patch For That
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…
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Project Volterra Surfaces; An ARM Powered Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023
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…
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A Year And A Bit Of Windows 11
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…
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Microsoft’s Windows Dev Kit 2023 Is Definitely Not A Surface Device
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...
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Windows 11, If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again
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…
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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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