Tag: microsoft
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Xbox Game Pass Announced
Microsoft recently announced their Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Most people are comparing it to a Netflix for games, it’s not a bad comparison excepting that while Netflix streams, the games with Microsoft’s service will download to an Xbox One. The selection of games available will be pretty small, “over 100” when the service becomes…
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Windows 10 Game Mode Doesn’t Sound Very Effective
Rock Paper Shotgun’s Alec Meer interviewed Microsoft’s Kevin Gammill about the upcoming Game Mode in Windows 10: Kevin Gammill: With the Creator’s Update and Game Mode right now, we’re primarily focused on biasing the game versus the rest of the operating system, from a GPU and CPU perspective. So for some of the other system…
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Xbox One S: The Upgrade Nobody Should Buy
Daniel Perez hasn’t given a final verdict yet, but has a review in-progress of the new Xbox One S that is out today: When the original Xbox One was revealed, there was quite the uproar as to its size and design. Microsoft didn’t change the overall shape of the Xbox One S, but what it did change makes…
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Windows 10 Anniversary Update Out With Bash
Windows 10 has been out for a year as a free upgrade from Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. Excepting some hacky workarounds the upgrade is no-longer available for free to users. Brett Howse has an article with the major changes that are available today in the Windows 10 anniversary update. The biggest feature for me…
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Even Thurrott Is Frustrated With The Windows 10 Upgrade Scheme
Paul Thurrott: Last week, Microsoft silently changed Get Windows 10 yet again. And this time, it has gone beyond the social engineering scheme that has been fooling people into inadvertently upgrading to Windows 10 for months. This time, it actually changed the behavior of the window that appears so that if you click the “Close”…