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It's only fitting that Microsoft waited until Throwback Thursday to introduce the world to XP, though it's not an operating system like the Windows XP of old. Following massive commercial wins with Amazon's Fallout television series and...
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Microsoft just wrapped its Windows & Surface event in San Francisco, during which the company unveiled a handful of new Windows features and initiatives designed to simplify, streamline, secure and optimize Agentic AI use cases on PCs. The...
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Following weeks of chatter surrounding corporate restructuring and studio shakeup amid a 100-day reset plan, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma brought the focus back to the firm's hardware strategy during a recent town hall with Microsoft gaming...
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Microsoft has officially released the Windows 11 2026 Update (version 26H2), and while the announcement leads with productivity tools like AI-assisted File Explorer actions and long-awaited taskbar customization options, the real...
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Microsoft is eliminating PC gaming's shader compilation stutter and endless first-boot load screens by expanding Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) to all NVIDIA RTX GPUs later this month. Originally meant to deliver pre-compiled Shader Object...
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Following the announcement that Microsoft would be slashing hundreds of jobs across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the Xbox Gaming Studios management and central functions layer, it was fair to question if the company might...
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Microsoft's Xbox disc-to-digital program has exited the Xbox Insiders Program, so anyone can now utilize the feature to convert disc games into digital licenses for use on Xbox consoles or even PCs. Per Microsoft's official announcement...
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Microsoft is expanding its Arm-powered PC lineup with fresh internal upgrades for its most portable form factors. Announced at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, the company is refreshing both the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop...
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Sony has caught a lot of flak from fans after it announced that it’s no longer going to be producing game discs for its PlayStation consoles beyond January 2028. Microsoft, meanwhile, is taking a different approach with the Xbox. It just...
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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is the midst of a big reset as outlined earlier this year when the company laid off hundreds of employees and shed several smaller studios. The next phase of this shakeup is now in motion and will see more...
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According to patent documents originally spotted by Respawn First, Microsoft is studying ways to enhance in-game advertisement solutions. Specifically, Microsoft showcased a context-aware ad system that times ad interruptions to specific...
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During its first few years of existence, Xbox Game Pass was often referred to as the best deal in gaming, but Microsoft has been chipping away at the service’s benefits. First, the company decided to no longer offer new entries in the Call...
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Microsoft has scheduled its first major dedicated Windows event in over two years, taking the stage in San Francisco on October 7 to showcase the next era of local AI in personal computing.
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While the latest wave of Patch Tuesday security updates for Windows 11 once again broke Microsoft's previous best record for the most security patches in one update, those 974 fixes still broke some stuff. The good news is that Microsoft...
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If you have submitted a customer support ticket to Xbox recently, there is a chance that the person reviewing your issue, offering guidance, or trying to help you troubleshoot a problem, is Microsoft’s chief executive officer for Xbox...
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The latest security update for Windows 11 is inadvertently silencing some PCs due to a known bug affecting USB Audio Class 1.0 devices—reminiscent of prior USB audio glitches in Windows 11 24H2. Microsoft confirmed the bug in a support...
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Google is expanding its desktop footprint by releasing a dedicated Gemini app for Windows 10 and 11, with support for both x86 and Arm. Having already arrived on Apple's macOS several years, having access to Gemini in a Windows app means PC users no longer have to keep a browser tab...
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Microsoft broke its previous Patch Tuesday record with yet another record-setter this week. September's Patch Tuesday will contain 974 total fixes, with 113 of them rated "Critical" for high likelihood of exploitation. So far this year...
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Keyword smuggling, which is the practice of obfuscating spam keywords to bypass detection filters, has been common practice for quite some time. Microsoft is warning that this traditional tactic has been enhanced by a new-school method of...
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A Microsoft Distinguished Engineer is claiming that typing code is effectively dead thanks to artificial intelligence. No, that doesn't mean that developers are about to go extinct, it's just that AI will take over the boring part of...
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Say a sad goodbye to unlimited Xbox cloud play, folks, because Microsoft will soon be enforcing strict monthly playtime caps for Xbox Game Pass subscribers while simultaneously opening up cloud access to non-subscribers.
Beginning this...
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Microsoft has announced that starting with October's Patch Tuesday update, Windows 11 will automatically enable Memory Integrity on all eligible PCs where the feature is currently turned off. Also known as Hypervisor-protected Code...
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