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China has initiated a policy shift to eliminate American processors from government computers and servers, reports Financial Times. The decision is aimed to gradually eliminate processors from AMD and Intel from system used by China's government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based chipmakers and higher sales of China's own CPUs. The new procurement guidelines, introduced quietly at the end of 2023, mandates government entities to prioritize 'safe and reliable' processors and operating systems in their purchases. This directive is part of a concerted effort to bolster domestic technology and parallels a similar push within state-owned enterprises to embrace technology designed in China. The list of approved processors and operating systems, published by China's Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, exclusively features Chinese companies. There are...
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Event Scheduled For Feb 29
Windows aficionado Paul Thurrott has just confirmed that the Windows 8 Consumer Preview event will be held in Barcelona, Spain on February 29, 2012. Coming from Mr. Thurrott, we...
12 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 2/9/2012
Microsoft Makes Changes to Windows 8's File Management Changes
We've been covering the changes in Windows 8 fairly closely since Microsoft started talking about the upcoming operating system, and while most of these changes will probably land in...
7 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/31/2012
Microsoft Office 15 Reaches Technical Preview Milestone
Apart from a few screenshots leaked early last year, not much was known about the next major release of Microsoft Office codenamed “Office 15”. However, as of yesterday, Microsoft...
20 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 1/31/2012
Windows 8 Motion Sensor Support Detailed
Windows 8's tablet-centric focus means that it's going to pick up a lot of new features to support hardware particular to those devices - Microsoft's Gavin Gear took to...
22 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/25/2012
Windows 8 Mobile Broadband Enhancements Detailed
Using mobile broadband in Windows 8 will no longer require specific drivers and third-party software, says Microsoft's Billy Anders in a Building Windows 8 blog post today. This is...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/20/2012
Microsoft's ReFS Filesystem for Windows 8 Server Explained
While Windows 8 client machines will continue to use the NTFS filesystem, Microsoft's Surendra Verma has given us some details on Windows 8 Server's new "Resilient File System," or...
18 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/16/2012
CES 2012: Windows 8 Beta In Late February
There has been some speculation over the last few months over when to expect the beta release of Windows 8. During Microsoft's final CES keynote tonight, Microsoft put that...
20 by Ryan Smith on 1/9/2012
Windows 8's "Storage Spaces" Detailed
Windows 8's new Storage Spaces functionality will easily allow users and system administrators to pool different physical drives together into one logical drive, writes Rajeev Nagar on the Building...
38 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/6/2012
Windows 8's Refresh and Reset Functionality Detailed
Microsoft's Desmond Lee took to the Building Windows 8 blog today to detail the Reset and Refresh functionality which will allow users to restore Windows to a pristine state...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/4/2012
Microsoft Releases Hotfix to Improve Bulldozer Performance UPDATE: Pulled
The launch of Bulldozer in October wasn't exactly a success for AMD. In our review, Anand ended up recommending the Intel i5-2500K over AMD FX-8150. One of the reasons...
76 by Kristian Vättö on 12/16/2011
Microsoft To Begin Automatic IE Upgrades For Users
Microsoft announced today that for the first time it would automatically begin updating Windows users to the most recent browser version supported by their OS (IE8 for XP, IE...
23 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/15/2011
Microsoft Releases SkyDrive Apps for Windows Phone and iOS
Users of Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service now have another way to access and share their files - Microsoft today released SkyDrive apps for both Windows Phone and iOS...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/13/2011
Xbox 360 Companion for Windows Phone, Xbox Live for iOS Apps Released
The Xbox team has been rather busy lately. On Tuesday, the team delivered the most sweeping facelift of the Xbox 360 dashboard since NXE, and today released an Xbox...
7 by Brian Klug on 12/7/2011
Microsoft Announces Windows Store Details
In an announcement aimed squarely at developers, Microsoft's Antoine Leblond and Ted Dworkin yesterday revealed some hard details for the upcoming Windows 8 app store. Using Apple's and Android's...
17 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/7/2011
Microsoft Releases Metro-themed Xbox 360 Dashboard Update
At some point today, Microsoft will issue an update for the Xbox 360 that will roll out the latest set of changes to its gaming console, most prominently a...
28 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/6/2011
Windows 8 to Feature Streamlined Downloadable Installer
As with every new Windows version, Microsoft is streamlining the Windows setup process, writes Christa St. Pierre on the Building Windows 8 Blog. The biggest change is the new...
30 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/22/2011
Windows 8 Streamlines Windows Update
With every new Windows release, Microsoft promises to reduce the number of times we'll have to restart our computers. Things have gradually gotten better - today, many program installations...
39 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/14/2011
Windows 8 Task Manager Features Improved UI for Multiple CPUs
Microsoft's Ryan Haveson takes to the Building Windows 8 blog today to give us one of our first looks at a Windows 8 feature not included in the Developer...
36 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/27/2011
Leaked Ads Confirm Nokia’s First WP 7.5 Device – Nokia 800
As we inch closer to the Nokia World event in London at the end of the month (October 26 to be precise), details are starting to trickle on Nokia’s...
24 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 10/14/2011
Xbox Companion App Lets You Control Xbox 360 via Windows Phone
Synergy between devices is one of the next major phases in the evolution of mobile computing. We've seen smartphone-as-a-remote apps for both Android and iOS, but today Microsoft announced...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2011
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