GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Windows 11 in dark mode, with the new centered Start menu. Microsoft announced this morning that it will release Windows 11 on Oct. 5 as a free upgrade for existing Windows 10 machines, and pre-installed on new computers. We expect all eligible devices to be offered the free upgrade to Windows 11 by mid-2022.”

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Microsoft’s original Xbox console source code has leaked online, alongside code for a version of Windows NT 3.5. The Xbox source code includes the kernel for the operating system on the original console, a custom version of Windows 2000. Alongside the Xbox leak, source code for a near-final version of Windows NT 3.5

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won’t be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Come on, how much has really changed in Windows 11 vs. Windows 10? Stratvert is a former Microsoft program manager who left the company to focus full-time on his work as a YouTube creator, producing how-to videos about software and services from Microsoft and others. 5 Awesome Windows 11 Features you should use.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Windows 11 is arriving later this year as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users , but many are discovering that their hardware isn’t compatible. Microsoft has altered its minimum hardware requirements , and it’s the CPU changes that are most surprising here. Windows 11 support for AMD. Intel 8th Gen (Coffee Lake).

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Computerworld Vertical IT

AUGUST 5, 2021

Microsoft this week launched its Windows 365 service, revealing prices for the virtual desktops that range between $20 and $162 per user per month. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A variety of new hardware updates are expected from Microsoft. Like in previous years, Microsoft is getting into the mix with its forthcoming Surface event , where we anticipate the company will announce a slew of products during its livestream presentation on Wednesday at 11AM ET / 8AM PT. Image: Microsoft.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Valve just announced its new handheld Steam Deck , powered by a custom Linux operating system. The 7-inch device will play the latest AAA games, and because it’s a PC, you’ll even be able to install Windows on it. That’s 7,586 games out of a possible 54,280 on Steam, compared to only 13 games on Steam that don’t work on Windows.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The collaboration marks the release of Windows 11 and part of what would normally, before the pandemic, include a Windows launch party in New York City. The “Bloomberry” (not to be confused with Bloomberg) ice cream looks like a frozen mix of the default Bloom Windows 11 wallpaper. Yup, it’s definitely Windows 11 ice cream.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. It’s an unusual surprise if you purchased a new PC for Windows 10, or perhaps you have a perfectly capable machine that’s even older.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

Microsoft’s Windows results this quarter reflect that. Windows OEM revenue has declined by three percent, in what Microsoft blames on “supply chain constraints. Windows non-pro OEM revenue also declined four percent, with Windows OEM Pro revenue also down, by 2 percent. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Microsoft is creating a new security chip that’s designed to protect future Windows PCs. Microsoft Pluton is a security processor that is built directly into future CPUs and will replace the existing Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a chip that’s currently used to secure hardware and cryptographic keys. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2015

But optimism came in the form of Microsoft as word began to spread that the company had solved the problems they experienced with Windows 8/8.1 and that Windows 10 was better than the Enterprise could have imagined. Windows 10. Microsoft seems to have figured out why IT did not make the move to Windows 8/8.1,

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Microsoft might have just launched Windows 11 earlier this month, but in the months ahead of this new version of Windows, PC sales have started to decline in the US due to supply issues. That doesn’t seem to have impacted Microsoft’s Windows revenues, though. Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Studio.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Microsoft just launched the affordable Surface Go 3, but maybe it will reveal new hardware at an education-focused event on Tuesday. The event arrives just over a month after the company released Windows 11, its next major operating system. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. And I definitely wanted to know about the decision to run Android apps on Windows. Nadella also mentions “aggregators” in the context of the Windows store.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products. Muneer Mirza, AWS general manager of End User Computing.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The new Surface Laptop Studio was shown for the first time during Microsoft’s fall hardware event Wednesday morning. The event comes as Microsoft prepares to release Windows 11 on Oct. 5 , refreshing the user interface of its PC operating system and adding new productivity features. It comes with a 14.4-inch

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The team is led by Mark Lucovsky, who announced he’d joined the company this week. Lucovsky previously worked at Meta developing an in-house alternative to Android to power the company’s hardware, and also co-authored the Windows NT operating system. This morning I became a Noogler.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. The Company operates in five segments: Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing, D&C Hardware, D&C Other, Commercial Licensing, and Commercial Other. Time to Patch Your Windows (krebsonsecurity.com).

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Vox

APRIL 12, 2023

Back in 1995, Microsoft’s new operating systems were a big deal. Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty Images They stayed true through Zunes, Windows Phones, and the original Bing. Lemoine calls himself a “Microsoft fanboy” on his Twitter profile , where he’s also posted a photo of his much-faded tattoo of the Windows 7 logo.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. And here’s another example of malware that is targeting Linux (along with Windows). This would be why I hate it when companies force me to use SMS for two-factor authentication—at least let me use a one-time passcode or something.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Apple’s own pro apps will be updated to support the company’s new silicon in macOS Big Sur, and the company is hoping developers will update their apps.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has previously ruled out official support for natively booting alternate operating systems like Windows or Linux. Hector Martin, a developer who regularly gets Linux running on a variety of hardware, is also porting Linux to M1 Macs.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

back in September of 2000, as a successor to Mac OS 9, the last of the “classic” Apple operating systems that dated back to the original Macintosh in 1984. Microsoft even had began to follow suite, with the company declaring back in 2015 that it viewed Windows 10 as the “ final version of Windows.”. End of an era.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

He argues they’ve entangled their operating system and app stores to the point that they’re doing developers a disservice. Windows 11 will demonstrate that “disaggregation” in at least two big ways. Windows chief Panos Panay is also open to Steam and the Epic Games Store being part of Microsoft’s app store. Apple trial.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Microsoft will release a budget version of its Surface Laptop, the Surface Laptop Go , looking to appeal to quarantined home and student users with a 720p video camera and an advanced speaker system that the company describes an ideal combo for video calls, remote learning, and video streaming. The new laptop, with a 12.4-inch

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Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

This software suite is compatible with both Windows and macOS operating systems, and offers a spectrum of six different editions to cater to diverse user needs. This includes a complimentary edition that allows for the recovery of up to 1 GB of data, a testament to the company’s commitment to accessibility.

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2020

Revenue in Microsoft’s Surface hardware business jumped 28% to more than $1.7 The increase was due to higher demand for Surface laptops, tablets and other devices due to stay-at-home orders in the pandemic, the company said. billion in the quarter ended June 30 , its biggest result ever outside the holidays.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

Not a clamshell, but a Surface Pro type of deal: a tablet with laptop hardware and a laptop OS. I think there must be people at Apple who want this, too, so I’m now respectfully requesting that the company stop dilly-dallying and make it happen. But now that the iPad Pro is an M1 system, I don’t see why it can’t run macOS apps.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Galaxy Note 7 is possibly the best gadget on this list; a herald of the success of big-screened smartphones, packed with the latest specs, top-tier camera tech for the time, and superb design and hardware… except for the fact that it had a tendency to burst into flames. Oh, Windows Phone. and Windows Phone 10 successors).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A truly robust endpoint solution will provide protection at all levels of the device, from the core BIOS, through to the hardware, firmware and application layers. On the hardware layer, Intel boosts the security of devices with total component traceability that starts at the factory floor.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

But it also means that apps that were developed for Intel’s architecture originally won’t run natively on Apple’s upcoming hardware. The company shifted from PowerPC to Intel chips in 2006, but ditched support for the former in 2009; OS X Snow Leopard was Intel-only.). Screenshot: Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”. and NI is now a multi-billion-dollar company!

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

While Windows Phone supported default app switching for the camera, Microsoft and Nokia went further by allowing developers to build special third-party “Lenses” into the main camera app. Windows Phone Lenses. Apple could improve the camera situation by opening it up to third parties as others have in the past. Image: dpreview.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. I said a LONG TIME ago that Windows 8 should be a hypervisor based OS. One of the great features of Windows 8 that hasn’t gotten much attention has been that it’s a Type 1 (bare metal) hypervisor.

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