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This Microsoft Flight Simulator video highlights 40 years of PC gaming changes

The Verge

Microsoft’s video begins with Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 , which was originally released in 1982 for IBM-compatible PCs. The beginning of the video also demonstrates just how much PC sound cards have changed over the years. Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020). map out the real world into a virtual one. Image: Microsoft.

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The biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2020

The Verge

Would I believe you if you told me they did based on the quality and quantity of adorably cringey dad-humor on display on Build’s video feed? Microsoft has really pulled off the WFH keynote stream today pic.twitter.com/iSzguPsF0j — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 19, 2020. It’s building smart and useful new tools for Windows in PowerToys.

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23 video games debuting this year with ties to the Pacific Northwest

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Wildcard announced Ark 2 at the 2020 Game Awards , which raises the stakes by marooning players on an entire jungle planet. Colossal Cave 3D After a couple of delays, Ken and Roberta Williams’ update of the classic text adventure Colossal Cave arrived on Jan. Created in Portland, Ore. System Shock 2023 is due out in March.

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Dell XPS 15 (2020) review: new design, familiar problems

The Verge

I could comfortably use a couple of different windows and apps without having to zoom in or out and stack up dozens of Chrome and Edge tabs without getting too cramped. The XPS comes preinstalled with the Waves MaxxAudio Pro driver where you can enable 3D audio and toggle between various presets. It’s a world away from 16:9.

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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream

The Verge

If you tuned into Microsoft’s Build developer keynote yesterday, one of the things you may have seen was a mysterious “RGV2cw” 3D-printed object on the shelf behind CEO Satya Nadella. Kinda in love with how @shanselman 's room lights match his wallpaper <3 #MSBuild pic.twitter.com/oARZAbXaQy — Jen Gentleman (@JenMsft) May 19, 2020.

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26 great apps for your new 2020 Windows PC

The Verge

If you bought a new Windows laptop on Black Friday or received one as a gift, you may be struggling to figure out which apps to download. I have scoured the internet, the Microsoft Store, and my own downloads folder to find all the best Windows apps for whatever purpose you may need. Video Chat. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge.

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The worst gadgets we’ve ever touched

The Verge

But after months of delays, what actually shipped was a gigantic, painful-to-use smartphone with outdated specs, mediocre cameras, and an awful-looking, blurry attempt at glasses-free 3D that bordered on painful to use — all of this while costing an astonishing $1,300. Oh, Windows Phone. and Windows Phone 10 successors).

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