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Microsoft developer demos .NET on the NES — delivers .NES
By Christopher Harper published
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
By Jeff Butts published
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
By Jowi Morales published
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
By Jowi Morales published
Bing, DuckDuckGo, Copilot, and Designer are down worldwide.

Copilot+ PCs: All we know about the AI-ready laptops and exclusive Windows features
By Dallin Grimm published
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
By Ed Tittel published
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
By Jowi Morales published
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.

Microsoft introduces new Proteus Xbox accessibility controller
By Dallin Grimm published
Microsoft has licensed Byowave to build a new variety of accessibility controller for Xbox, creating a uniquely customizable solution now available for pre-order.

Windows 11 market share declines as users seemingly shift back to Windows 10
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
Despite many efforts by Microsoft, many users are still sticking with Windows 10 while the new reports by Statcounter showing many users worldwide migrated from Windows 11 last year.
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