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Door slammed on last remaining easy Windows 11 local account setup workaround
Microsoft blocks the last easy way to bypass an online account requirement when setting up a new Windows 11 PC.
Windows 11 24H2 may block connections to unsecured third-party NAS devices — Microsoft enables SMB signing for enhanced security
Better late than never, Microsoft disabled two protocols by default which will secure over a billion PCs and NAS
Open-standard AI accelerator interconnect is being developed by AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Google, Microsoft, others
Several major companies develop Ultra Accelerator Link for AI accelerators, but fail to bring Nvidia on their side.
Microsoft developer demos .NET on the NES — delivers .NES
Gratuitous .NET backporting goes from the arguably-practical Windows 95 platform to the Mario-practical Nintendo Entertainment System.
Windows 11 LTSC 2024 arrives making TPM and Secure Boot optional
Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 LTSC 2024, so hardware designers making devices dependent on the OS can use these system requirements to guide their component choices.
Snapdragon X Elite shows 2X higher multi-threaded performance than Apple M2 in new benchmarks
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 had more than double the performance of an Apple M2 device in a CPU-Z multi-threaded benchmark test.
Microsoft suffering from outage — Bing, Copilot, and DuckDuckGo inaccessible for several hours
Bing, DuckDuckGo, Copilot, and Designer are down worldwide.
Copilot+ PCs: All we know about the AI-ready laptops and exclusive Windows features
Microsoft's shiny new AI innovations for the laptop space
Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC just made “AI PCs” obsolete, leaving anyone who bought a 2024 laptop behind
While exciting, Microsoft’s new requirements for PCs that do AI leave out anyone who bought an “AI PC” in recent months wishing that they’d waited.
Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins
Microsoft offers over 700 AI and Cloud Computing engineers and other staffers in its China operation to move to the U.S., Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand.