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Brandon Hill - Tue, May 14, 2019
If you're looking for a hot deal on an Xbox One S console, we've got two options available for you today. Both Walmart and Amazon are selling the Xbox One S 1TB console for a low $208, which is a steep discount from the MSRP of $299 (and the typical sale price of $250).
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Shane McGlaun - Sat, May 11, 2019
Windows is the most popular PC operating system on the planet today with more machines running it than any other OS, by a long shot. In March, we learned that Windows 10 had been installed 800 million times making it the fastest growing...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, May 09, 2019
Google announced in February that it had added FIDO2 compliance to Android, edging users closer to never needing a password again. Microsoft has now announced that Windows Hello has been FIDO2 certified. Microsoft says that Windows Hello...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, May 09, 2019
It might be hard to believe but the blocky game Minecraft will turn ten-years-old this month. To celebrate the birthday, the folks behind the game have done something that fans will enjoy, and bosses might hate. Minecraft Classic is...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 08, 2019
Few things rarely go out of style for good. The best stuff has a way of coming back into view, like vinyl. This also applies to computers, apparently. No, the floppy disk is not making a glorious comeback, but something that dates all the...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, May 07, 2019
Microsoft has announced something interesting for Windows 10 users that could mean buyers no longer need to decide between a Windows machine and a dedicated Linux machine like Dell's new Ubuntu workstations unveiled a few days ago...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 07, 2019
One of the biggest conveniences of using a digital assistant is hands-free operation. Thanks to a recent Alexa app update for Windows 10, Amazon has made that ability possible on Windows 10 systems, allowing users to invoke the digital...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, May 07, 2019
Microsoft shocked pretty much the entire tech community when it officially announced that it would be abandoning its EdgeHTML-based Microsoft Edge browser in favor of an all-new version built on Google's Chromium engine. Microsoft has...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, May 06, 2019
Most people have used natural language computing in one form or another. thanks to voice assistants out there from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others. The idea is that you can interact with your device just as if you were talking to a...
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Brittany Goetting - Mon, May 06, 2019
Microsoft recently announced a number of interesting features for its upcoming Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge. The features are primarily aimed at helping businesses and enhancing privacy. Microsoft’s new version of Edge includes...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, May 06, 2019
Microsoft may have given up on Windows 10 Mobile in order to focus the bulk of its software and services development for iOS and Android, but there are still quite a few people that are holding on to smartphones like the Lumia 950 and...
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Shane McGlaun - Sun, May 05, 2019
Microsoft is hard at work on its new Chromium-based browser and delivered its first Chromium-based browser test build about a month ago. However, a big issue with the Chromium-based browsers has been discovered on Windows 10, and it can...
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Shane McGlaun - Sat, May 04, 2019
A hacker is making the rounds and attacking Git hosting services like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. The attacks reportedly started on May 3, and as of now, it is unclear how the hacker is gaining access to these repositories. What is...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, May 03, 2019
Back in early April, Microsoft announced that it would give users back control over Windows Update in Windows 10. In previous incarnations of Windows 10, Microsoft pushed out major updates to PCs based on telemetry data that it gathered...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 03, 2019
Microsoft unveiled its second-generation HoloLens augmented reality headset a few months, and at the time, it carried a hefty price tag—$3,500 for any enterprise customers who might be eager to order the commercial version. Now Microsoft has announced a Developer Edition of the HoloLens 2, but...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Apr 30, 2019
It's been nearly a year since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox Adaptive Controller aimed at allowing special needs gamers to enjoy playing video games more easily. The controller even had its own Super Bowl commercial celebrating these...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Apr 30, 2019
Microsoft is likely just days away from publicly launching the next major release for Windows 10: Version 1903, aka, the Windows 10 May 2019 Update. Although Microsoft has been testing the May 2019 Update for months internally and...
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David Altavilla, Brandon Hill - Mon, Apr 29, 2019
Dell and Microsoft announced today that the two companies are burying the hatchet with respect to previous virtualization squabbles, and have inked an “expanded partnership” with their respective VMware and Azure platforms. Called Azure...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Apr 26, 2019
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that it would soon be merging the Fast and Skip Ahead rings together so that they would both receive future Windows 10 20H1 (First Half 2020) builds. One of the latest fruits of these new combined...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Apr 25, 2019
Microsoft launched Windows 10 way back during the summer of 2015. Ever since that time, the minimum storage requirements have remained the same for the operating system: 32-bit versions required 16GB of storage, while 64-bit versions...
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Brittany Goetting - Thu, Apr 25, 2019
There are few things more annoying in the modern world than having to change your password every few months. Experts have long argued that password reset rules do little to actually promote security. Microsoft is the latest company to...
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Shane McGlaun - Sun, Apr 21, 2019
Sony and its PlayStation 4 won the console wars for the current generation with higher sales numbers than Microsoft's Xbox could muster. Sony announced back in January that it has sold a total of 92 million PS4 consoles since its debut...
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