Items tagged with Microsoft
It's easy to blame your controller (or cat, or dog, or a loud noise outside, or...) when missing that critical head-shot in a game or bricking an easy bucket in NBA 2K25. If you know someone who often turns to that excuse, do them a solid...
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It has taken a few attempts, but Arm is finally starting to hits its stride on Windows, and it's thanks in large part to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Plus processors. What's also helped is that Microsoft promoted Snapdragon X...
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Recently rebranded Halo Studios is gifting Halo Infinite players a seasonal treat with the Operation: Snowbound event, which will run from December 3, 2024 to January 7, 2025. This content update brings some new gameplay modes and several...
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After a couple of recent social media posts, which claimed Microsoft was training AI on user’s Word and Excel data sent users into a frenzy, Microsoft has responded. According to the software giant, it was all just a big misunderstanding...
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With the latest update to Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft noted that users running Windows 11 24H2 are susceptible to some annoying issues. However, it appears as if this isn’t the only game from the publisher that’s having problems on...
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Microsoft has released its controversial Windows 11 Recall feature for Copilot+ PC owners, in preview form. The news comes after the tech giant announced earlier this month that it was delaying the release of Recall in order to “refine the...
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Xbox is following up its heavily memed “This is an Xbox” campaign with the launch of a beta program for Xbox Cloud Gaming. It’s part of the company’s strategy “to bring more games to more people around the world, across devices.” While...
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AMD is a company that is certainly no stranger to building semi-custom processors. Indeed, the semi-custom unit of the company basically kept it afloat for a couple of years before the launch of Ryzen by supplying SoCs to Sony and...
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Fans eagerly anticipating taking to the skies with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are finding themselves grounded instead, as launch day issues are plentiful in what turns out to be a repeat scenario of the previous game’s launch in 2020...
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Xbox Game Pass is building on the gains made from launching Call of Duty Black Ops 6 with a solid set of additions to the service for this month, which include titles like Metal Slug Tactics and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. However...
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Xbox's newly launched ad campaign that uses the tagline “This is an Xbox,” meant to inform viewers about the company's different platform options, has been met with predictable memes and derision from the core of the console’s userbase...
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When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, companies are leaving no stone unturned. Even Notepad, the humble little text editor in Windows, is getting a generative AI upgrade. Same goes for Paint, and if you're a Windows Insider...
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For gamers who prize graphical fidelity, immersive audio is often a close second on the list of must-haves. With technology improving in the latest headsets, Microsoft is once again joining the fray with an upgraded offering. With its...
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It's been rumored for some time now, but we finally have official confirmation that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Xbox Cloud Gaming upon release. From 10 am PT on October 25th, you will be able to play Black Ops 6...
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Google has been hit with a series of antitrust losses over the past couple of years, and the latest ruling could force it to radically change how it distributes apps on Android. The Android maker will soon have to let developers sell app...
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Microsoft enjoys desktop dominance, but it just can't get mobile right. The company's most recent smartphone project is dead with the final update for the Surface Duo 2. The dual-screen phone has gotten the October 2024 security patch just...
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Despite adding quality game studios such as Bethesda, Arkane, Obisidian, and Ninja Theory through mulitple acquisitions over the years, Microsoft's Xbox is still struggling to make headway against Sony's PlayStation this console...
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Microsoft got in on the ground floor of the current AI hype, releasing the first Copilot PC features in 2023. Its decision to roll out Copilot while the technology is still developing has led to a lot of changes, and the latest update is...
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Microsoft announced it has begun a phased roll out of its Windows 11 2024 update, otherwise known as Windows 11 24H2, which the company describes as a "full operating system (OS) swap" containing brand new foundational elements to help...
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A new optional Windows Update Preview is apparently causing some percentage of users to lose access to their PCs. This is because the update is making the machines enter a "boot loop", where the system attempts to start, fails, restarts...
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When Microsoft kicked off the Copilot+ PC era earlier this year, one of the more highly touted features was Recall, which would create a searchable history of everything a user did on their PC. It was immediately torn apart by many...
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Has Microsoft lost the current-generation console war? That's a loaded question, but if strictly looking at the number of Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles sold versus how many PlayStation 5 systems are in the wild, then the answer...
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