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Microsoft's new GPT-5-powered Smart mode, which OpenAI describes as the "best model to date", is automatically rolling out for free to Copilot users. We've tested it here at HotHardware and observed that you don't even need to update your...
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Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, raised some eyebrows after wearing a graphic t-shirt featuring the box art of the classic video game Hexen during the 2023 Xbox Showcase event. At the time, he played it off as simply wearing a...
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First person shooter fans are looking forward to two major releases coming this fall, Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Regardless of which game players prefer there are some specific requirements their systems will need to...
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AI is now further integrated into your gaming PC with the Xbox Gaming Copilot Assistant making its way to the platform. For Xbox Insiders, it's available as a beta release starting today. It will be on the Game Bar on Windows PCs, and is...
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The current console generation has been a difficult one for Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division, where plans for an anticipated handheld have been put on hold. While it has been known that the company wasn’t selling as many boxes as its chief...
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A new study by Microsoft Research (MSR) has analyzed 200,000 conversations between users from various walks of life and Microsoft Bing Copilot, which revealed some interesting findings. This study claims that some occupations are unlikely...
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Opera filed a complaint against Microsoft, accusing it of unfairly promoting its browser to the detriment of others. In Opera’s complaint with Brazil's anti-trust authority (CADE), the software company accused Microsoft of influencing...
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Official support for Windows 10 is coming to an end, with a cutoff date of October 14. While Microsoft wants all these users to upgrade to Windows 11, many are holding back from doing so because of the hardware requirements, or they aren’t...
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Microsoft Systems administrators everywhere, it looks like you get a Patch Monday as a side dish to the usual Patch Tuesday this week. There's a full remote code vulnerability (RCE) exploit for SharePoint running around, letting any...
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Effectively immediately, Microsoft is no longer allowing users to purchase or rent movies and TV shows through its app for Windows PC systems and Xbox consoles. The sudden pull-of-the-plug comes several years after Microsoft also abandoned...
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Microsoft's latest installment of Windows 11, specifically the now somewhat infamous 24H2 version, keeps pilling on problems for the software giant. Following the latest fiasco involving a Firewall error, Microsoft has issued an official...
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Fans of the Minecraft Movie will now be able to listen to the famous "Lava Chicken" song with the latest update to the Minecraft game. The Chicken Jockey character and this song were both crowd favorites in the movie, and now they're also...
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It has been a rough few weeks for Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division, as it was hit hard by the latest wave of layoffs. This move raised questions about the future of Xbox, including how much longer current head Phil Spencer will remain at...
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Microsoft just made a huge UI upgrade to its signature browser, Edge. It now has a First Contentful Paint (FCP) of less than 300 milliseconds, and many other browser features load 40% faster than before.
Here's the gist of the FCP...
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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division took the brunt of the most recent round of layoffs, which resulted in 9,000 job cuts. It has lead many to question every aspect of the Xbox business, including the future of CEO Phil Spencer. More fuel has...
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Windows 11 is now the most popular operating system on the desktop, according to the latest market share figures at Statcounter. It took the first week of July for Windows 11 to reach that point, after coming up just short of overtaking...
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Microsoft’s Xbox division is currently going through a rough patch, where even the future of its gaming chief Phil Spencer is in question. The company is making cuts in personnel across its gaming division and outright shutting down some...
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Xbox, Microsoft’s gaming division, has been hit hard with layoffs and studio closures. It comes at a time when the company’s strategy, which shifts some of the focus away from its first-party hardware to one where anything can be an Xbox...
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Minecraft continues to evolve, riding high on the success of the recent, blockbuster film adaptation. Developer Mojang is looking to keep things fresh with its latest update, which makes a once useless resource something more valuable and...
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If you use Microsoft Authenticator or know people who do, here's a good heads-up. Keeping with the plan to discontinue Authenticator's password functionality in a bid to transition to passkeys, the software's autofill functionality will...
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The console wars have always been heated, but it looks like Microsoft's Xbox may be throwing us a curve ball. We've come to expect hardware updates by each brand every few years since the early days of Nintendo versus Sega. And much like...
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If you follow Microsoft news, you may have heard about the Windows Resiliency Initiative that started last year. While at first glance this may appear to be just another marketing-driven campaign to fill a row of buzzword bingo, it appears...
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