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Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system
By Mark Tyson last updated
A retro computing connoisseur has bare-metal installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti PC system.

Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions
By Kunal Khullar published
Windows 11 24H2 systems are being upgraded to 25H2 automatically, as Microsoft aims to streamline updates before support ends.

'Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,' says Windows veteran reminiscing about company's past focus on speed
By Mark Tyson published
A former president of Microsoft’s Windows Division has been reminiscing about the lean and efficient coding regime at Microsoft in the 1980s.

Report claims Arm chips will power 90% of AI servers based on custom processors in 2029
By Anton Shilov published
As hyperscalers seek efficiency and control from custom CPUs they build in house, they adopt Arm and 90% of servers running custom silicon will use the Arm ISA in 2029.

Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China
By Anton Shilov published
As cloud giants plan to spend $650 billion on AI infrastructure this year, the availability of power infrastructure components has become a significant obstacle to deploying AI data centers.

Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’
By Mark Tyson published
'Two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working,' complains Artemis II astronaut.

Microsoft issues emergency update for Windows 11
By Kunal Khullar published
The latest Windows 11 emergency update tackles widespread install errors and replaces the problematic KB5079391 rollout.

Iran issues direct strike threat to Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google, 14 other US tech companies
By Stephen Warwick published
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued a direct strike threat to a slew of U.S. tech companies including GPU giant Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Cisco, and Tesla.
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