Enlarge / In 2017, Tux was sad that he had a Microsoft logo on his chest. In 2021, he’s mostly sad that Microsoft’s repositories were down for most of a day. (credit: Jim Salter) Yesterday, packages.microsoft.com—the repository from which Microsoft serves software installers for Linux distributions including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and more—went down hard, […]
Bethesda Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications Pete Hines talks to GameSpot about Starfield. This week, Microsoft and Bethesda confirmed that Starfield will be coming exclusively to Xbox Series X/S and PC next year. And while that kind of exclusivity deal had been hinted at and heavily suspected by many since Microsoft’s $7.5 billion […]
Enlarge / Please show your retired operating system the respect it deserves, with a proper Viking funeral. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A new Windows visual refresh, code-named Sun Valley. is on the way this summer. Until recently, we’ve assumed that this update would simply bring a new look for Windows 10 21H2—the major release of […]
Pardon the pun, but the floodgates have really opened on this divorce… It’s been a little over a month since Bill and Melinda Gates announced the end of their marriage, and we’ve gone from the couple reportedly keeping things amicable for the sake of their children winning a Nobel Prize, to a WHOLE lot of […]
Oh boy, my disc-based Xbox One game is “Ready to start” on the Xbox Series X! [credit: Xbox ] Disc-based Xbox One games and many cross-generational discs that rely on “Smart Delivery” require an online connection to play on the Xbox Series X, placing a limitation on the system’s ballyhooed backward compatibility. This limitation, which […]
Enlarge / You don’t need Internet Explorer to view any of these websites—which, unfortunately, doesn’t stop your users from trying it anyway. (credit: TimZillion / Getty Images) If you’re one of the 10 people on the planet who absolutely loves Microsoft’s venerable Internet Explorer browser, you’d better spend quality time with it while you can—Microsoft is […]
The hits just keep on comin’ for Microsoft founder Bill Gates amid his increasingly contentious divorce from wife Melinda Gates. This time, two new reports published in major newspapers on Sunday allege the computer whiz reportedly sought out affairs with other Microsoft employees two decades ago on multiple occasions. Related: Bill Had Reportedly Been Telling Friends For A […]
Enlarge / The Surface Neo failed to launch in 2020—this year, it looks like its operating system will share that fate. (credit: Microsoft) At its fall 2019 Surface event, Microsoft announced that Windows 10X—a new consumer Windows distribution—would power a line of dual-screened tablet devices in 2020. But the Surface Neo never arrived, and in […]
Sounds like Bill Gates was a little bit of a playboy! That’s what one journalist alleges, at least, in an interview this week as the Microsoft founder continues to go through his very-public divorce from estranged wife Melinda Gates. Now, in a Monday sit-down, former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and one-time Gates biographer James Wallace is opening up big […]
In this image, courtesy of Windows Latest, we see new icons from a Sun Valley preview build on the left versus production icons on the right. [credit: Windows Latest ] Back in January, we reported on Sun Valley—a coming “sweeping visual rejuvenation” of Windows 10’s user interface. This week, Windows Latest leaked new detail about the upcoming […]