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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...
Hololens Round Two: Augmented Reality At Build 2016
Last year at BUILD I got my first chance to try Hololens. That experience was very interesting, not only because of the potential of Augmented Reality, but because of...
23 by Brett Howse on 3/31/2016
Windows 10 Gaming Updates: DirectX 12 and Xbox One
With the Windows Anniversary Edition, Microsoft has detailed some upcoming improvements for gaming. They even brought Phil Spencer out to announce the upcoming plans for gaming on Windows. The...
21 by Brett Howse on 3/30/2016
Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Anniversary Edition
Windows 10 is unlike previous versions of Windows in that the original intent was to have it constantly updated over its lifetime. We’ve already had one big update with...
45 by Brett Howse on 3/30/2016
Windows Adds Support For Bash Scripting
With the goal of making more developers use Windows, and to help them move their workflows over to Windows, Microsoft has taken the step to enable Bash scripting natively...
41 by Brett Howse on 3/30/2016
Microsoft Extends Skylake Support On Windows 7 And Windows 8.1
Back in January, Microsoft made a rather surprising announcement that it was changing the support model for older operating systems running on the latest Skylake hardware. As part of...
50 by Brett Howse on 3/18/2016
Microsoft Edge Gains Extension Support And Pinned Tabs In Latest Preview Build
This, well, this has been a long time coming. Windows 10 launched officially on July 29, 2015, and with it came the new web browser to replace Internet Explorer...
44 by Brett Howse on 3/17/2016
Microsoft Rolls Out Windows 10 Mobile To Windows Phone 8.1 Devices
The journey of Windows 10 Mobile from announcement to release has certainly been a strange one. The OS itself was announced roughly one year ago, and around that time...
47 by Brandon Chester on 3/17/2016
Discussing the State of DirectX 12 With Microsoft & Oxide Games
Taking place next week is the 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. GDC has been an important show for some time, but in recent years it has taken...
67 by Ryan Smith on 3/11/2016
Microsoft Reveals Additional Details About HoloLens and Begins to Take Pre-Orders
Microsoft this week began to accept applications for pre-orders for its HoloLens augmented reality device. Right now, the company offers HoloLens only to software developers looking to build applications...
20 by Anton Shilov on 3/3/2016
Microsoft Ends Effort To Bring Android Apps To Windows 10 Mobile
At the 2015 BUILD developer Conference Microsoft demoed four application bridges that they hoped would improve the number of applications available for Windows 10 Mobile, which would benefit the...
46 by Brandon Chester on 2/25/2016
Microsoft Acquires Cross-Platform C# Toolmaker Xamarin
In what has to be the most obvious acquisition Microsoft has made in some time, today the Redmond company announced that they have signed an agreement to purchase Xamarin. Xamarin...
21 by Brett Howse on 2/24/2016
Microsoft Patches Surface Book And Surface Pro 4 Sleep Issue
When I reviewed the Surface Book, there were a lot of bugs with the software. Some of them have been pretty minor, and Microsoft has been updating the firmware...
40 by Brett Howse on 2/17/2016
Microsoft Launches The Business Focused Lumia 650
Today Microsoft launched their fourth phone in the x50 series, with the Lumia 650 being the latest Lumia to roll out of what used to be Nokia’s smartphone business...
36 by Brett Howse on 2/15/2016
VAIO to Start Selling Smartphones in Japan
VAIO, the former PC division of Sony and now an independent supplier of PCs, this week announced plans to introduce its first smartphone in Japan this spring. The company...
16 by Anton Shilov on 2/5/2016
Giveaway: Rise of the Tomb Raider (PC)
After a bit of a break we’re back with another giveaway for everyone to enjoy. This time the folks over at Square Enix sent over a rather sizable cache of...
76 by Ryan Smith on 2/3/2016
Microsoft Releases Q2 FY 2016 Results: Lower Results Despite Cloud Growth
Today Microsoft released their earnings for quarter two of fiscal year 2016, which ended on December 31. Despite solid growth in their cloud platforms, the PC slowdown and world...
13 by Brett Howse on 1/28/2016
Windows 10 Mobile Has A Cellular Data Eating Bug
Although Windows 10 has gotten off to a great start by pretty much any metric, Microsoft’s mobile version of Windows 10 has had a pretty bumpy road. Originally thought...
45 by Brett Howse on 1/27/2016
Microsoft to Recall Power Cables for Previous-Gen Surface Pro Tablets
Microsoft plans to recall power cables for previous-generation Surface Pro tablets. The cords can overheat and pose fire hazard, according to reports. While Microsoft recalls millions of cables, the...
28 by Anton Shilov on 1/20/2016
Microsoft Will Not Support Upcoming Processors Except On Windows 10
Microsoft has long been the bastion of long term support for older platforms, so today’s support news out of Redmond is particularly surprising. Intel launched its 6th generation Skylake...
125 by Brett Howse on 1/15/2016
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