Windows 10 feature extends battery life
Published in AI


Per-app CPU throttling now available for beta testers

Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled a new operating system wide power savings feature for Windows 10 that claims to reduce notebook battery consumption by around 11 percent on devices equipped with Skylake and Kaby Lake processors.

Microsoft Project Scorpio Dev Kit detailed
Published in Gaming


Impressive looking system for developers

We have already seen most of the specifications for the Microsoft Project Scorpio console but today, we get to check out the Project Scorpio Dev Kit that should be shipping to developers soon.

Full cloud-based Windows 10 is not too far away
Published in News


Microsoft's partnership with Citrix continues to expand


Earlier this month, expert Windows author and columnist Ed Bott recently pointed out that Microsoft is preparing to unleash “big changes” to the way the world’s most popular OS can be deployed to devices and systems very soon.

Project Scorpio will support FreeSync 2 and HDMI 2.1 VRR
Published in News


Important part of the puzzle

Last week, Microsoft shared lots of information regarding its Project Scorpio but it appears that it left out some rather important details, like the fact that it will support both FreeSync 2 and HDMI 2.1 VRR.

Ballmer: I would do Windows phone differently now
Published in Mobiles


Regrets, I’ve had a few

The shy and retiring, softly spoken and delightfully understated former Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, has been talking to Bloomberg about Microsoft’s failed move into mobile.

Microsoft swallows open sourcy cloud container Deis
Published in News


Vole snuffles more cloud

Microsoft has written a cheque to buy Deis, an open source container orchestration company which allows for the creation and management of apps on top of Kubernetes.

Vista off life support today
Published in News


Death of a legend


Software king of the world Microsoft has finally pulled the plug on what must be its worst product ever.

OS/2 Warp version finally found
Published in News


Only 25 years too late from when Microsoft and IBM still loved each other


A version of OS/2 2.0 which went missing for 25 years has finally turned up.

Macs are an attack magnet
Published in News


460,000 malware samples uncovered


The myth that Macs were somehow more secure than other operating systems too another battering today in the latest Threat Report by McAfee Labs.

Microsoft spills the beans on Scorpio
Published in Gaming


Where's the mango?

Software king of the world Microsoft unveiled last year that it will be launching a super-specced Xbox One variant -- codenamed Project Scorpio and now Vole has split the beans on what they will look like.