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Windows Central has a very interesting speculation piece here about the future of Windows and Microsoft in the mobile space. Whether it's correct or not, only time will tell but it makes a couple of telling points. Firstly, that for Microsoft to succeed at the next iteration it's necessary that...

Microsoft is planning to get 23 million Americans left behind, in terms of broadband, online by 2022. The technology boils down to taking advantage of unused UHF television spectrum bands. Yeah, you old guys remember the knob on the bottom! Our call for a new strategy reflects in part our own...

Hi all, I have a 4GB RAM / 128GB Surface 3 for sale. It includes a Surface 4 Pro Pen and Case and original charger. The Surface is in good condition and the screen has had a matte screen protector on it for it's whole life (will leave it on and include another). It works fine and there are no...

It seems difficult to find a solid answer to this question. VMs are running on vSphere 5.5 across multiple ESXi hosts. VMware documentation says both physical and virtual are supported in this configuration but physical is recommended. The same documentation also states, "Clusters across...

While I'm still trying to get to Donkey Kong's kill screen myself, researchers at Microsoft developed artificial intelligience using reinforcement learning to beat Ms. Pac-Man. The team from Maluuba, recently acquired by Microsoft this year specifically used the Atari 2600 version of Ms. Pac-Man...

Long time HardOCPer, The_Heretic, let us know that after Microsoft gimped a few of his workplace AMD machines back in mid-March, Microsoft has finally come through with a fix only 3 months later. Late yesterday, Microsoft issued security fix KB4022722 that addresses this problem for Windows 7...

After a full year of speculation, it's official the name for Microsoft's Project Scorpio is Xbox One X.The basic specs include an 8-core CPU clocked at 2.3GHZ, 12GB of DDR5 RAM, 1TB 2.5-inch drive, and 4K UHD Blu-Ray player. The GPU runs at 40 compute units @ 1172MHz attached to a vapor chamber...

Well ahead of Microsoft's E3 2017 Briefing, website Gadgets 360 is reporting of twitter users leaking the first look at its design. Compared the hefty size of the Xbox S, this design looks pretty slim. After the rumored pricetag of $499, I wonder how well the public will take to this "premium...

Not to be upstaged by any other free giveaways, developer The Coalition is allowing a free trial of Gears of War 4 on Xbox one and PC. Beyond access to online multiplayer and Horde mode, players will be allowed to access up to roughly 20% of the single-player campaign, or up to 10 hours of...

Bad news arrived for users of Docs.com today: Microsoft has announced that the file hosting site will be shutting down, in favor of their other hosting service, SlideShare. Big M acquired SlideShare during the LinkedIn purchase, unwittingly making Docs.com a superfluous service in the process...

Microsoft's very own, Larry Hyrb aka Major Nelson, takes us on a quick tour of the Project Scorpio development kit. Taking input from developers during last years E3, the kit boosts some extra processing power, 24GBs of RAM, and a 1TB SSD for developers to work with. For the developers that need...

Microsoft Research has unveiled new technology designed to bring a comfortable, eyeglasses style form factor to virtual reality and augmented reality. They have demonstrated how they can create holographic imaging with a device in the form factor of sunglasses by using a powerful wave-front...

Like a fallen tree in an empty forest for no one to hear, the relevance of a new hardware standard is questionable if manufacturers fail to include it with their designs. One of the latest conundrums in the technological forest is Microsoft’s decision to preclude USB Type-C ports from their...

Today at Build 2017, Microsoft's developer conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows 10 has reached a new milestone, with 500 million monthly active installations. Of course, this is about half the billion installations they had targeted reaching by now, and they reached...

As chaos gripped the hallowed halls of various Security Operations Centers around the world, Microsoft stood like a defiant digital Gandalf. "You shall not pass!" they declared as they smashed the ground with the Staff of Patching, releasing a golden ring of light and sending their adversaries...

As we have reported on in the past, Microsoft has new privacy controls in the works in response to a lot of people being unhappy about the combination of Microsoft not letting people disable data collection in Windows 10 completely, and also not being transparent about what, exactly, they...

Here's one from the RTFM file. Apparently it was, until Microsoft disabled the site-wide search function, possible to find social security numbers, health insurance ID numbers, bank records, job applications, etc. all publicly shared on Docs.com. A very large number of users apparently did not...

Well, not so fast. Guru3D has a story to this effect running today, and while it does look like Microsoft's statements suggest that they are looking to patch things for Ryzen, I have never seen anyone put so many weasel words into a single tweet before. That's impressive considering the 140...

One of the things that irked me when I first installed Windows 10, was the number of ways Microsoft was seemingly trying to funnel me in to their cloud eco-system. Anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely hate being sold to, at any time, for any reason. Even when I walk into a store or a...

Remember those pesky patches for Windows 7 and 8.1 that seemingly do nothing but trigger a scheduled process named "DoScheduledTelemetryRun"? Well, they're back, again. They could just be for innocent user statistics and crash data information to help Microsoft developers, but it is suspicious...

So, I have decided my stepson needs some additional oversight when it comes to his computer usage. In Windows 7 and 8 there were built in parental controls I could use to prevent use outside of hours I disapproved of. This was a great feature. Apparently now, you need to have several...

Microsoft and University of Cambridge have developed a machine learning system called DeepCoder that can steal code from other programs and use it to create it's own program. This A.I. will eventually be able to create a program from the suggestions of a person who doesn't know how to code...

Microsoft tried and failed to compete in healthcare with General Electric as a partner. Microsoft has decided that it is once again bringing back it's prowess with artificial-intelligence and cloud services to the healthcare system. Rather than compete this time, Microsoft is ready to partner...

Microsoft has started an open source project for creating smarter drone A.I.. These open source A.I. routines will make it so that anyone can assist in testing the software within a simulator; and then implement it into their own drones. The goal of the project is to get drones to be able to...

I can't say I ever asked myself this question, or even noticed that all generic drivers had the same date, but once pointed out I have to admit I was curious. The Old New Thing has a brief write-up keeping us in the know, and the answer makes plenty of sense when you think about it. The more...

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Fortune ran a story over the weekend about how Google has been ordered by a U.S judge to comply with search warrants requiring them to provide customer emails stored on servers abroad. This after we reported in July of last year that the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Microsoft...

The Financial Times is reporting that Google's revenues are on track to exceed $100bn this year, and that this will likely be sufficient for the company to surpass Microsoft's revenues for the year. They cite an upswing in ad revenue as a large part of the cause, also pointing out that the...

Looks like Microsoft today made their compiler for DX12 shaders open source. It makes me wonder why it would be in their interest to do such a thing. They claim it is to foster greater adoption resulting in the "faster creation of more complex shaders in apps and games," but I would think that...

A recent cumulative update for Exchange 2016 was intended to add support for Windows Server 2016. But, after numerous reported issues, Microsoft has acknowledged a problem exists. According to the release notes… If you attempt to run Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU3 on Windows Server 2016, you will...

Interesting...doesn't sound as robust as the Vive/Rift/PSVR solutions but the price seems right. Microsoft announces new VR headsets for Windows 10, starting at $299

Edit: SOLD Microsoft Project Professional 2016 for sale, I purchased this yesterday and won't be using it. It has never been installed nor has the product key been used. Heatware 39-0-0 Reviews/Feedback for sugosugita | HeatWare.com $50

I had a computer emergency (thanks to the windows 10 update replacing the Windows.old with the windows 10 update) and I am wondering what happened and why (All is fine for now) I installed Windows 10 using my "Digital Entitlement" (Which worked fine) and I was going to try it out knowing...

The Hololens Dev Edition is now opened up to everyone.. HoloLens Development Edition Updates It also details the 'hololense commerical suite' features.. The $3k store link: Microsoft HoloLens Time to start shining the light on the budget to see if this can fit in this year!

Edit - The Item Was Sold Locally. For Sale By Original Owner: New Surface Pro 4 (3 Days Old) / Skylake i7 Dual Core CPU / Iris 540 GPU / 16GB RAM / 512GB Internal SSD / Bonus Samsung T1 500GB External SSD!! / Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit OS. I just purchased this Surface Pro 4 (SP4) at PC Richards...

Why does explorer.exe have a TCP connection to Microsoft (65.52.108.217)?

No gamer in their right mind wants to deal with BS like this! WARNING!! Very important to G27 Logitech wheel users :: DiRT Rally General Chat WARNING!! Very important to G27 Logitech wheel users I have a G27 with Profiler 5.10 and LGS 8.83.85 ( for my KB and Mouse ) installed. Theres a...

Lets create this hypothetical situation. In this situation, we go back to the original launch of the "upgrade for free" campaign. Instead of Microsoft pushing Windows 10 through a notification icon, it put it somewhere out of view where it was completely optional to upgrade. For sake of this...

The Power of DX12 video from Microsoft showcases a smattering of DX12 titles set to launch onto the PC. All Future Forza Games To Be Developed For PC & Xbox One http://wccftech.com/future-forza-games-developed-pc-xbox/

I was just reading what Ryan wrote over at PCPer yesterday and the following statement very much got my attention. PC Gaming Shakeup: Ashes of the Singularity, DX12 and the Microsoft Store | PC Perspective I have to say that deep down, one part of me would love to see this happen...