Software
Today, Intel announced that it is looking to progress its AI PC Acceleration program further by offering various new toolkits and devkits designed for software and hardware AI developers under a new AI PC Developer Program sub-initiative. Originally launched on October 23, the AI PC Acceleration program was created to connect hardware vendors with software developers, using Intel's vast resources and experience to develop a broader ecosystem as the world pivots to one driven by AI development. Intel aims to maximize the potential of AI applications and software and broaden the whole AI-focused PC ecosystem by aiming for AI within 100 million Intel-driven AI PCs by 2025. The AI PC Developer Program aims to simplify the adoption of new AI technologies and frameworks on a...
Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 Comes To The Windows Store
The Windows Store is Microsoft’s big bet, combining software purchases, updates, and installs into a single place. Although it continues to grow, it still doesn’t offer anywhere near the...
56 by Brett Howse on 11/25/2016Examining Windows 10 Anniversary Update's Driver Signing Enforcement Policy
Windows 10 Anniversary Update came out at the beginning of August, with plenty of new user-facing features. There were also plenty of changes under the hood as well, including...
85 by Brett Howse on 10/14/2016Windows 10 Anniversary Update Launching August 2nd
While certainly not as big of an update as the original launch of Windows 10, the next major update now has a release date. August 2nd will be the...
35 by Brett Howse on 6/30/2016Microsoft Announces Q3 FY 2016 Results: Lower Revenue But Strong Cloud Growth
Today Microsoft also announced their earnings for the third quarter of their 2016 fiscal year. Revenue, income and earnings were all down compared to Q3 2015, with revenue for...
16 by Brett Howse on 4/22/2016Vivaldi Web Browser Launches With Version 1.0: Built For Power Users Of The Web
Today, Vivaldi has gone from a beta project to a production web browser with the official launch of version 1.0. After more than a year in public development, the...
55 by Brett Howse on 4/6/2016Microsoft 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 3/17/2016Dell To Add Off-Host BIOS Verification To Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise
At CES this year, Dell kind of broke from tradition and focused more on their business products. When I had a chance to talk to them, they were very...
8 by Brett Howse on 2/4/2016Windows 10 Feature Focus: .NET Native
Programming languages seem to be cyclical. Low level languages give developers the chance to have very fast code with the minimum of commands necessary, but the closer you code...
30 by Brett Howse on 10/2/2015Microsoft Office 2016 Is Released Worldwide Today
Today Microsoft is launching a pretty important set of products. Office 2016 is now available worldwide, and marks the first major update to the suite since Office 2013 was...
36 by Brett Howse on 9/22/2015Microsoft Reports FY 2015 And Q4 Results: Nokia Write Down Results In $3.2B Loss For Q4
Microsoft released their earnings report for Q4 of fiscal year 2015. The numbers certainly reflect the massive write down of the Nokia acquisition that CEO Satya Nadella announced earlier...
17 by Brett Howse on 7/21/2015Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
In what seems like forever ago, Microsoft’s Project Spartan was announced at the January 21st event in Redmond. This project kept the same rendering engine, Trident, and ECMAScript (JavaScript...
86 by Brett Howse on 7/21/2015Windows 10 Retail Will Be On USB Flash Drives
The death of the optical drive in the PC space has been a long time coming, and while removable media is unlikely to go away any time soon, with...
95 by Ryan Smith on 7/16/2015Citrix Brings Full Support For Windows 10 To Its Desktop Virtualization Products
Today is the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, and one of Microsoft’s biggest partners over the years has been Citrix. I got a chance to speak to Citrix about their...
1 by Brett Howse on 7/14/2015Microsoft Rebrands Entertainment Apps
What’s in a name, you may ask yourself. Branding is likely one of the more difficult tasks out there, and companies like Microsoft seem to move around on branding...
18 by Brett Howse on 7/6/2015Dell Launches Premium Support Option For Consumers
Today Dell is unveiling a new offering in the world of after purchase support which they have dubbed Premium Support. It promises to significantly reduce the amount of time...
18 by Brett Howse on 6/2/2015Cortana Going Cross Platform And Windows 10 Will Support Android And iOS Devices
Microsoft unveiled Cortana back in Windows Phone 8.1, and their version of the digital assistant is going to be integral to Windows 10 and the Microsoft Edge browser. Today...
18 by Brett Howse on 5/26/2015Microsoft Edge Gains SIMD Support, Dolby Audio, And More
Microsoft is pushing their new Edge browser (formerly Project Spartan) as the replacement for Internet Explorer 11. Back on May 5th, Microsoft opened up the Microsoft Edge Dev Blog...
29 by Brett Howse on 5/26/2015Microsoft Details Windows 10 Staggered Release Schedule
Today at a special breakout session, Corporate VP of the Operating Systems Group Joe Belfiore confirmed that the launch schedule for Windows 10 is going to be summer (he...
30 by Brett Howse on 4/30/2015Windows 10 Build 10074 Now Available
As if Microsoft has not had enough Windows news today, they have also released a new build of Windows 10 into the pipeline. Unlike the last build, this one...
27 by Brett Howse on 4/29/2015Microsoft Releases FY 2015 Q3 Financial Results
Yesterday (apologies for the delay I was in travel status when the results came out) Microsoft announced their Q3 results for fiscal year 2015, and revenue was up 6%...
9 by Brett Howse on 4/24/2015