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  1. Retronym

    All new Microsoft games coming to Steam

    https://www.pcworld.com/article/3398980/microsoft-xbox-one-exclusives-are-coming-to-steam.html As of today, Microsoft is abandoning its previous Windows 10 Store exclusivity and bringing all its future first-party PC titles to Steam—and potentially other storefronts as well.
  2. Armenius

    Sony and Microsoft to explore strategic partnership

    Better check if hell is freezing over. In a Memorandum of Understanding released today, Sony and Microsoft announced that they will work together in the future to bring cloud-based solutions for game streaming that benefit both companies, along with developing more advanced AI. TOKYO and...
    • Armenius
    • Thread
    • azure cloud gaming end of the world hell freezes over microsoft sony
    • Replies: 42
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  3. S

    Remember Microsoft PowerToys? Windows 10 Is Getting Them

    Microsoft is resurrecting the PowerToys project. Designed for power users, these utilities may include a keyboard shortcut manager, a batch file renamer, and a window manager that can change window layouts when you dock or undock a laptop. The PowerToys project originally launched for Windows...
  4. cageymaru

    Microsoft Will Ship a Linux Kernel with Windows

    Microsoft has announced that it will be shipping a Linux kernel with Windows. The Windows Subsystem for Linux: WSL 2 will bring full support for Docker and other Linux features to Windows. This will be the first time a Linux kernel is shipped with Windows and it is based on the 4.19 version of...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • canonical docker fuse! linux linux kernel microsoft operating system technology windows insider windows subsystem for linux wsl 2
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  5. cageymaru

    Windows Terminal Announcement

    Windows Terminal has been announced by Microsoft. It features a GPU accelerated DirectWrite/DirectX-based text rendering engine and will use the fonts from your PC. Microsoft also announced the release of new fonts for the Windows Terminal. Full customization over the look and control of the...
  6. Retronym

    MS Paint lives on...for now

    Microsoft has decided not to kill off the best program ever made. For now.
  7. cageymaru

    Microsoft Launches Disc-less Xbox One S All-Digital Edition

    Microsoft has announced that it has launched the disc-less Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. The $250 video game console will feature a 1TB hard drive and is comparable to a $300 Xbox One S without the ability to play physical discs. Microsoft expects to maintain that price difference between...
  8. cageymaru

    Microsoft Patent Describes a Persistence of Vision Augmented Reality Display

    Microsoft has filed a patent for a new type of mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) called a Persistence of Vision Augmented Reality Display. The display uses movable screens to simulate a 360 degree field of view. These screens can rotate back and forth, spin around a user's head, or spin...
  9. cageymaru

    Microsoft Announces Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac

    Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac brings the same robust protection from Windows Defender to the Mac platform. Microsoft has created a "cross-platform next-generation protection and endpoint detection and response coverage" heterogeneous solution that will help Microsoft reach its goal of securing...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • antivirus cybersecurity mac microsoft microsoft defender atp technology
    • Replies: 34
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  10. AlphaAtlas

    All Digital Xbox One S Could Launch May 7

    Following up on previous reports claiming that Microsoft could unveil a disc-less Xbox One in April, Windows Central allegedly got their hands on some photographs of the upcoming console, and recreated them in Photoshop to protect their source. "Additional documents" they obtained suggest that...
  11. AlphaAtlas

    Microsoft Criticizes FCC Broadband Report

    According to a recently spotted FCC report, Microsoft thinks that the government is a little generous when it comes to their analysis of broadband availability. Based on their own analysis, some areas that supposedly have access to speeds of over 25 Mbps really don't have much access at all, and...
  12. cageymaru

    Microsoft Announces Variable Rate Shading Support for DX12

    Variable Rate Shading (VRS) is a powerful new API that gives the developers the ability to use GPUs more intelligently. Shaders are used to calculate the color of each pixel in a screen. Shading rate refers to the resolution at which these shaders are called (which is different from the overall...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • amd api dx12 foveated rendering intel microsoft nvidia pc gaming shader technology variable rate shading
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  13. cageymaru

    Microsoft Reveals Project xCloud: a Vision for Game-Streaming

    Microsoft has revealed Project xCloud: its vision of the future of game-streaming. As long as there is a client for the device, the service enables gamers to play the games that they want on the device that they want. Just like music where you have a choice to listen at home, on the commute to...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • choice game streaming microsoft microsoft azure project xcloud remote render xbox
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  14. AlphaAtlas

    Windows Update Fixes Previous Patch's Mouse Issues

    Microsoft has released a fix to a previous update that reportedly caused "graphics and mouse performance degradation with desktop gaming when playing certain games, such as Destiny 2." KB4482887 contained the performance enhancing "Retpoline" Spectre mitigation, and in addition to the new mouse...
  15. cageymaru

    Halo: The Master Chief Collection Is Coming to the PC

    Microsoft has announced that Halo: Reach is being added to Halo: The Master Chief Collection and the entire collection is coming to the PC via the Microsoft Store and Steam! The team at 343 Industries has updated the games with improved and modernized matchmaking and services, support for...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • 343 industries halo halo: reach halo: the master chief collection microsoft microsoft store pc gaming steam technology video games xbox
    • Replies: 173
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  16. cageymaru

    Microsoft Announces DX12 Support for Windows 7

    Blizzard Entertainment added Windows 10 DX12 support to its MMO World of Warcraft (WoW) and fans of the game responded with a warm welcome to new features such as multi-threading. Blizzard Entertainment contacted Microsoft about bringing the same improvements to WoW gamers that remain on Windows...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • dx12 microsoft miracle technology windows 10 windows 7 world of warcraft wow
    • Replies: 161
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  17. cageymaru

    Windows 10 Will Uninstall Incompatible Updates

    Microsoft has rolled out a new feature for Windows 10 that allows the operating system (OS) to automatically uninstall broken or incompatible updates. Windows 10 will attempt to fix startup failures with automatic recovery attempts before uninstalling the updates. Users will see this message "We...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • fix incompatible updates microsoft startup technology updates windows 10
    • Replies: 38
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  18. AlphaAtlas

    Microsoft HoloLens Was the Star of MWC

    Mobile device manufacturers released a slew of new handsets and MWC this year, but Forbes' Patrick Moorhead thinks that Microsoft's HoloLens 2 was one of the most impressive devices at the show. The new headset doubles the field of view of the original Hololens without sacrificing pixel density...
  19. AlphaAtlas

    Google Discovers Vulnerabilities in Chrome and Windows 7

    Google just publicized a combination of zero-day exploits for Windows 7 and Chrome that are reportedly being exploited together in the wild. The bug in Chrome allegedly involved the browser's file reader, while the vulnerability in Windows "is a NULL pointer dereference in...
  20. cageymaru

    Highlights of the Microsoft HoloLens 2 Presentation at Mobile World Conference

    CNET has released a highlights video of the Microsoft HoloLens 2 presentation at the Mobile World Conference. The video shows some of the forward thinking solutions that Microsoft engineers have been working on for years to make working with holograms feel like interacting with objects in the...
  21. cageymaru

    Microsoft Announces the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator

    Microsoft has announced that it has open sourced the Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. Microsoft is seeking more community contributions and ideas in the development of Windows Calculator. Reviewing the Windows Calculator code will allow developers to learn how to work with...
  22. AlphaAtlas

    Developers Install Windows 10 on an Nintendo Switch

    A developer and hacker who goes by "Ben" on Twitter has allegedly shoehorned Windows 10 for ARM into an Nintendo Switch. This is reportedly the same hacker who helped get Windows 10 running on the Lumia 950 and the Raspberry Pi 3, but the Switch doesn't appear to be quite as functional as those...
  23. cageymaru

    Microsoft to Announce Xbox One S "All Digital Edition" in April [Rumor]

    Last year, Brad Sams of Thurrott leaked information detailing how Microsoft is expected to announce a Xbox One S without the disc drive. Now Jez Corden of Windows Central has heard that the console is coming and it will be called the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. Preorders for the console are...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • console halo: the master chief collection microsoft pc gaming technology video games xbox one s "all digital edition"
    • Replies: 55
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  24. AlphaAtlas

    ZDNet Analyzes the Windows 10 Update Schedule

    Microsoft recently released code from the Windows 10 2020 H1 branch to testers last month, which left many wondering why Microsoft wasn't releasing code from the 19H1 update. Some thought Microsoft might be moving to one Windows 10 feature update per year, while others thought the marriage of...
  25. AlphaAtlas

    Phil Spencer Comments on Developer Acquisitions and PC Gaming Plans

    Microsoft recently acquired the long-running RPG developers Obsidian and inXile, and, given Microsoft's track record with acquisitions and PC titles in general, many fans were justifiably worried about what that means for either studio. But, in a recent interview with PC Gamer, Microsoft's Phil...
  26. AlphaAtlas

    Digital Foundry Analyzes Crackdown 3's Cloud Based Destruction

    Fully destructible environments have long been a holy grail of game physics engines. I remember Red Faction: Guerrilla generating quite a bit of buzz when it came out, and according to Digital Foundry, the Crackdown devs have been working on an even more ambitious system that leverages the power...
  27. cageymaru

    Microsoft LSV2-Series Azure Virtual Machines Are Powered by AMD EPYC

    Microsoft has announced that its Lsv2-series Azure virtual machines (VM) are powered by AMD EPYC 7551 processors. The Lsv2-series features high throughput, low latency, and directly mapped local NVMe storage. The VMs are configurable from 8 to 80 vCPUs with simultaneous multi-threading. A 1.92TB...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • 7551 amd azure big data datacenter epyc microsoft nvme server technology virtual machine vm
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  28. cageymaru

    Here Is the New Atomic Heart: 10 Minute Gameplay Trailer

    IGN has posted a new Atomic Heart: 10 minute gameplay trailer. Enjoy! Atomic Heart came out of nowhere last year and jumped on a lot of people's radars, thanks to its BioShock-on-acid weirdness (in a good way). Check out a huge new chunk of gameplay! Look up Mundfish on YouTube for more.
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • atomic heart dxr microsoft mundfish nvidia pc games real time ray tracing rtx video games
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  29. AlphaAtlas

    Bing Appears to be Blocked in China

    NPR reports that Microsoft's search engine, Bing, appears to be blocked in China. Until Wednesday, Bing was one of the few foreign search engines that still worked inside the country, but NPR's Rob Schmitz confirmed that the site is no longer accessible, while noting that "China's internet...
  30. kingdom9214

    FS/FT: Surface Book 2, 15", i7 8650U, 16gb, GTX 1060, 512gb, Pen

    I'm selling a used Surface Book 2 15" that has the i7 8650U (true quad core), 16gb ram, 512gb storage, and the GTX 1060 performance base and surface pen. I bought it used for my wife's Christmas present but she absolutely hated it compared to her old Macbook Air. I already have the 13.5" SB2 or...
  31. cageymaru

    Windows 10 Mobile Is Officially Dead

    Microsoft has officially signed the death certificate for Windows 10 mobile as it recently posted a "Windows 10 Mobile End of Support: FAQ." On December 10, 2019, "Windows 10 Mobile users are no longer eligible to receive new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free assisted support...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • android dead end of life eol eulogy funeral ios kaput microsoft smartphone technology windows 10 windows 10 mobile
    • Replies: 41
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  32. AlphaAtlas

    Microsoft Puts $500 Million Towards Affordable Seattle Area Housing

    Microsoft says they're committing $500 million towards an affordable housing program in the Pudget Sound region around Seattle. More specifically, $225 million will be invested "at below market rate returns, focused on preserving and developing new middle-income housing on King County’s...
  33. cageymaru

    "Floss" and "The Carlton" Dance Emotes Removed from Forza Horizon 4

    Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios have taken the initiative to remove controversial dance emotes from Forza Horizon 4 that are the center of a lawsuit against Fortnite creators; Epic Games. Dance creators Alfonso Ribeiro, Backpack Kid, and 2 Milly filed lawsuits against Epic Games in response...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • dance emotes epic games floss fortnite forza horizon 4 lawsuit microsoft pc gaming pcmr playground games the carlton turn 10 studios video games
    • Replies: 34
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  34. AlphaAtlas

    Microsoft's Direct3D Team Mounts Old GPUs on Their Office Wall

    Throughout their history, Microsoft's Direct3D team, who are responsible for the various incarnations of DirectX and other related APIs, had to test quite a few graphics cards. In their own words, they've accumulated "a LOT" of old GPUs, and instead of storing them in boxes, the team decided to...
  35. AlphaAtlas

    Future Windows 10 Builds Will Reserve Storage and Tabulate It

    According to a recent Microsoft TechNet blog post, future versions of Windows 10 will automatically set aside several gigabytes of storage for updates and other Windows-related features. The post says that the reserved space will shrink the apparent size of regular, user accessible disk space...
  36. AlphaAtlas

    Windows 10 Web Market Share Overtakes Windows 7

    According to NetMarketShare's latest statistics, Windows 10's market share has finally overtaken Windows 7. The Steam userbase hit this critical crossover point in 2016, and Statcounter claims that Windows 10 usage was higher this time last year. But NetMarketShare claims they measure market...
  37. cageymaru

    The RetroArch Emulator Is in Development for the XBOX One

    Libretro has announced that it has committed to releasing a port of RetroArch to the Xbox One in early 2019. The Xbox One platform has a built in Developer Mode that grants users the ability to develop and test software on the system. This should forgo having to jailbreak the console. According...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • console developer mode emulation emulator libretro microsoft retail mode retroarch technology xbox one xbox one x
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  38. AlphaAtlas

    Halo Infinite Might Feature RPG Like Mechanics

    In a recent live stream, the Halo Infinite developers confirmed several new details about the upcoming game. Unlike Halo 5, Infinite will support 4 -player splitscreen, and its also getting a Reach-like customization system. The full developer livestream can be seen on Microsoft's streaming...
  39. cageymaru

    Microsoft Announces Project Mu: An Open-Source UEFI Creation Tool

    Microsoft has announced Project Mu, an open-sourced release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) that will allow firmware to be kept up-to-date. Project Mu will support Firmware as a Service (FaaS) which is similar to the Microsoft Windows as a Service initiative. This will allow...
  40. cageymaru

    Microsoft Releases Emergency Security Update for Actively Exploited Vulnerability

    Microsoft has released an emergency security update to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in Internet Explorer. CVE-2018-8653 addresses a remote code execution vulnerability caused by the way the scripting engine handles objects in Internet Explorer. The exploit corrupts memory in such as...
    • cageymaru
    • Thread
    • emergency exploit internet explorer microsoft os patch pc software technology vulnerability windows windows update zero-day
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
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