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New reports suggest that Microsoft’s making a new version of Windows, creatively called Windows 12. It could be coming in under a year from now, featuring several new standout features that should separate it from Windows 11. Some of these new features will reportedly include a new UI re-design that will copy UI...
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If you're trying to game on a budget, Microsoft's Game Pass is a pretty decent deal. As long as you stay subscribed at $10 a month, you get to play quite a few PC games to your heart's content, and they're not just Microsoft's own games, either. The company has been running a promotion for years that would let...
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Security experts confirmed a major bug in a core Windows app last week, and Microsoft is already rolling out a fix. As we learned recently, the Windows 11 Snipping Tool was susceptible to the "Acropalypse" bug initially discovered in Google's Pixel phones. Google is already patching that one up, and Microsoft isn't...
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Earlier this week, Microsoft introduced new AI additions to its suite of software with Microsoft 365 Copilot, a large language model used to cut down on the daily slog of emails and other menial tasks. Now, this tooling is being extended to Microsoft Power Apps, to help people actually create or augment apps by simply...
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Microsoft recently patched a zero-click privilege escalation vulnerability within Microsoft Outlook, tracked as CVE-2023-2339 and rated a 9.8/10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Left unchecked, this vulnerability could allow a threat actor to capture sensitive information from any user account that...
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It's probably fair to say that a good number of PC enthusiasts have pirated a copy of Windows once upon a time. It's also probably fair to say that a certain number of folks have had the thought "I'll go legit and buy my Windows this time!" One such fellow in South Africa had exactly that thought, but he couldn't get...
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The AI wars are raging. Google announced the inclusion of PaLM in development tools and Google Workspace just a couple of days ago. Now, Microsoft has released its latest update in the AI revolution. While not officially announced, the ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat tool is now available for everyone, but there is far more...
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You may have noticed that your solid state drive (SSD) is not performing as expected after installing this month's Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 22H2 (KB5023706). Don't worry, it's not just you—Microsoft is aware of the issue and is working on a fix (and hey, at least it's not another boot loop issue at play)...
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When Microsoft and OpenAI partnered in 2019, the two companies sought to bring supercomputing resources designed and dedicated to allow OpenAI to train an expanding suite of increasingly powerful AI models. OpenAI needed an unprecedented cloud-computing infrastructure, larger than anyone in the industry had attempted...
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Sony expressed concerns in new documents that, if the Microsoft/Activision-Blizzard-King deal goes through, Call of Duty games will be buggier on its PlayStation consoles. The documents from Sony are in response to the provisional findings of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) concerning the Microsoft...
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Microsoft is preparing a new AI-powered upscaling technology for distribution as part of its Edge browser experience, dubbed Video Super Resolution (VSR). The technology behind VSR sounds a lot like NVIDIA’s recently enabled RTX Video Super Resolution, or RTX VSR. However, Microsoft's implementation has a great...
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Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot has been making lots of news lately after sending dark replies to users’ questions. However, despite these oddities, the chatbot is still an impressive and powerful piece of tech that aims to change how we use the web. That goal is being enhanced by new chatbot 'personalities' and...
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Microsoft seems to have positioned itself well with EU regulators after recent deals it closed with Nintendo and NVIDIA. The deals with the two companies guarantee access to the coveted Call of Duty franchise for at least 10 years.
Microsoft's plan to acquire Activision-Blizzard-King has been a bit of a test for...
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In a galaxy not so far away, Xbox and Lucasfilm have launched an iconic giveaway of goodies coinciding with The Mandalorian Season 3 premiere. One lucky winner will receive a treasure trove of prizes, including a Mandalorian-themed Xbox Series X and Series S, a Grogu controller, and a hoodie.
For the fans of the...
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Do you enjoy Microsoft Windows but feel like there are some missing features? The official Microsoft PowerToys application remedies a lot of quality-of-life gaps and adds features that already exist in other operating systems. The app is updated regularly to add new features, and the most recent update to the utility...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a major update to Windows 11 (KB5022913) with a whole bunch of new and updated features in tow, such as a touch-optimized taskbar for 2-in-1 devices and an improved search box experience. This is a preview update that's now available to the general public, though before you grab it you...
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Have you ever seen a whale fly? Probably not, but if you've ever been in the shadow of the Antonov An-225 Mriya you might think so. If you want to know what it takes to pilot it, well, you're in luck. Thanks to a recent DLC made for Microsoft Flight Simulator, not much stands between you and the ability to push this...
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Microsoft went wild with Windows 10 upgrades, offering everyone and anyone a free path to get on Microsoft's latest OS. There was speculation that Microsoft would never release another distinct version of Windows, but after five years, we got Windows 11. This time, Microsoft isn't letting just any PC upgrade to the...
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Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot launched earlier this month and quickly came under heat for giving some quite disturbing answers. Answers varied from telling a New York Times journalist he was not happily married, to stating its desire to steal nuclear codes. The exchanges prompted Microsoft to quickly limit the number of...
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One of the requirements to run Windows 11 is your PC is must be equipped with a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 security chip, and it also has to be enabled in the BIOS. You can get around this if you really want to, but in doing so, you may be forced to look at a watermark stating, "System requirements not met. Go...
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Just days after Microsoft placed limits on its Bing AI chatbot, the company announces that it intends to bring back longer chats. The software giant made the decision to limit conversations with the chatbot after some disturbing and concerning interactions were recently reported.
AI chatbots are all the rage at the...
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Having access to a search option in Windows 11 is great and all, but what's not so nifty is that it's basically just a glorified button that brings up a separate window to actually perform a search. Why can't we just type our query into the space that the button occupies in the taskbar? Well, that feature is coming...
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