The monkey wrench of the legal system. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Microsoft Vice President of Xbox Business Development Lori Wright took center stage at the Epic versus Apple trial today. The executive’s testimony served up some interesting comparisons and contrasts with Epic’s complaints and addressed questions about the Xbox consoles’ closed, iOS-style app market and the difficulties […]
Microsoft rings yet another bell in the dirge for Flash—the KB that removes it from Windows 10 will become mandatory this July. (credit: Adobe) Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, and even Adobe itself have all deprecated Adobe Flash technology, which reached end of life on January 1 of this year. This July, Microsoft is taking things […]
Although giant neural networks get much of the attention, smaller neural networks are more easy to explain, making them more appealing to regulators. Read More
Enlarge / Developers of games like these will soon earn more money when they’re sold through the Microsoft Store. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is lowering the revenue cut it takes on games sold through its Microsoft Store on PCs from 30 percent to 12 percent, marking a new front in its uphill battle to take on […]
Results at Spotify, Pinterest, and Microsoft disappointed the stock market. Read More
U.S. futures are flat ahead of Fed Chief Jerome Powell’s press conference later today. Read More
Enlarge / That Android Note Ultra 20 (with removable controller) at the top of the image is the closest you’re gonna get to a Switch-like xCloud streaming experience. (credit: Reddit / AS Empire) For years now, there have been rumors that Microsoft and Nintendo were planning a major partnership to bring the xCloud game streaming […]
Companies did not spend more time and money on their A.I. projects in 2020, likely due to COVID-19. Read More
File under “You can’t do this with 32-bit addressing”: 1,600 projects and about 300,000 individual files open at once in VS 2022. [credit: Microsoft ] Earlier today, Microsoft offered us a peek at Visual Studio 2022, which will offer its first public preview builds later this summer. If you’re into the Visual Studio ecosystem, this looks […]
The new Roku Express 4K+ costs only $40. Read More