Project Scarlett; The Bits We Know
The rumours about Project Scarlett, the new AMD powered gaming console from Microsoft are flying at E3. So far we don't know much about the neXXXt XboX apart from some pie in…
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Xbox Game Pass for PC Games List Appears Ahead of E3 Announcement
We knew that Microsoft was planning to officially launch its Xbox Game Pass for PC service during today's E3 Press Conference, but we didn't yet have a list of...
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No Guide Wire Needed For These Keyboards
Ars Technica have created a comprehensive reference guide for anyone shopping for a wireless keyboard. They have broken down their recommendations into a half dozen categories, as the best overall...
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Microsoft Announces .NET 5.0 for November 2020
The .NET platform will become unified around the .NET Core standard. While .NET Framework 4.8 has just launched with Visual Studio 2019, .NET 5.0 will be the successor to...
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Will You Comment Your PowerShell Scripts If We Give You Emojis?
Microsoft announced several interesting things today, including a new and improved console experience with support for tabs and emojis, intended to improve your experience with PowerShell, the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and…
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Get yer filthy mouse balls off my desk!
Friday marked the 20th anniversary of an crucial upgrade many enthusiasts probably don't remember, the announcement of the IntelliMouse Explorer and it's sealed optical sensor. No longer would you have to choose…
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Windows Media Center, the second coming?
Charlie Owen, who was on the original Windows Media Center team has posted the entirety of the WMC SDK to GitHub for any and all to work on. This means that for…
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Windows 10 Create Process Performance Analysis
Bruce Dawson (currently at Google on the Chrome team; formerly at Valve, Microsoft, and others) has blogged another example of Windows 10 performance regressions – this time in CreateProcess. He...
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It’s a Tile fire, another reason to distrust your new Start Menu
*** Update from April 18th, 11:56 Microsoft has now deleted the nameserver record and we no longer control the subdomain. We still haven't received a reply from Microsoft. *** If...
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Microsoft Changes Course on Forced Windows 10 Feature Updates
The era of forced Windows Update for Windows 10 users is coming to an end. In a surprise move by Microsoft today it was announced that - at least for feature updates…
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Who is the super mega ultrabook winner?
Over at Ars Technica is a close comparison of a half dozen ultrabook models from a variety of manufacturers, with the purpose of determining which stand above the others. As...
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Nice OS you have there; shame if something happened to it
It does have to be said that running a 10 year old Microsoft OS might not be the wisest decision; though it is better than running one 18 years old. However,…
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Microsoft Announces Variable Rate Shading for DirectX 12
To align with the Game Developers Conference, GDC 2019, Microsoft has announced Variable Rate Shading for DirectX 12. This feature increases performance by allowing the GPU to lower its shading...
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NVIDIA is ready to storm the server room
As part of their long list of announcements yesterday, NVIDIA revealed they are partnering with Cisco, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Inspur, Lenovo and Sugon to provide servers powered...
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Halo: The Master Chief Collection Coming to PC
At today’s Inside Xbox event, Microsoft announced that Halo: The Master Chief Collection is coming to PC on both Steam and the Microsoft Store. Not all games will launch simultaneously;...
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Uh… WoW… World of Warcraft DirectX 12 on Windows 7
Microsoft has just announced that they ported the DirectX 12 runtime to Windows 7 for World of Warcraft and other, unannounced games. This allows those games to run the new...
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Windows 10 KB4482887 Update Causes Performance Issues
Microsoft has just acknowledged a graphics and mouse input performance issue with their March 1st, 2019 update for Windows 10. The “Known Issues” section of the update’s documentation, KB4482887, claims...
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Microsoft Rolling Out Retpoline Optimizations Update to Reduce Performance Impact of Spectre 2 Mitigations
Microsoft recently detailed its testing of retpoline optimizations present in Windows Insider Preview builds of its Windows 10 operating system (18272 and newer) and has announced that starting with Microsoft...
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