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Windows 10 Anniversary to become available on 2nd August

29 June 2016, 10:15

Microsoft ups a blog post about the launch date, and then takes it back down again.

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Woman is awarded $10k following unwanted Windows 10 upgrade

28 June 2016, 10:00

She didn't initiate the upgrade and it made her business PC crash prone and unusable.

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Futuremark intros Time Spy DirectX 12 benchmark test

24 June 2016, 11:41

This 3DMark DLC will be downloadable 'soon', meanwhile you can watch a video preview.

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Microsoft says: browse with Edge to get more out of your battery

21 June 2016, 10:01

Microsoft publishes tests comparing Edge to Chrome, Firefox, and Opera on Windows 10.

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PC gaming 'wins E3 show' says report

17 June 2016, 11:01

And here is a collection of the most notable E3 2016 PC gaming trailers.

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Buffalo's TeraStation™ WSH delivers improved reliability, performance, and speed for businesses

16 June 2016, 17:50

Buffalo's TeraStation™ WSH delivers improved reliability, performance, and speed for businesses.

Xbox introduces future of gaming beyond console generations and without boundaries

14 June 2016, 18:47

Xbox introduces future of gaming beyond console generations and without boundaries.

Microsoft announces Xbox One S and teases Project Scorpio

14 June 2016, 09:51

Rival to PS4.5 Neo is over a year out.

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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2bn

13 June 2016, 16:23

The price to pay for enhancing social-media presence.

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Check out the E3 2016 press conference schedule

8 June 2016, 11:07

Find out when the likes of Microsoft, Sony, EA and Ubisoft reveal their E3 gaming goodies.

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HP Elite X3 Windows smartphone gets a fingerprint reader

3 June 2016, 13:31

Reader wasn't present when this 3-in-1 device was shown off at MWC in February.

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Microsoft welcomes partners to Windows Holographic platform

1 June 2016, 14:31

Will work with Intel, AMD, HTC, Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and many others.

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Will Microsoft outgun Sony with its generation 1.5 console?

27 May 2016, 12:01

Reports suggest the Xbox One Scorpio offers 6TFLOPS, and the PS4K just over 4TFLOPS.

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Thecus® Expands Windows Storage Server Line-up with Launch of Two New Rackmount NAS

26 May 2016, 19:19

Thecus® Expands Windows Storage Server Line-up with Launch of Two New Rackmount NAS, the W12850 and W16850.

Microsoft does u-turn on tricky Windows 10 upgrade popup

25 May 2016, 14:31

And the corporation announces large cuts to its smartphone operations.

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Windows smartphone market share dips below one per cent

24 May 2016, 11:12

Q1 2016 worldwide sales; Android 84pc, iOS 15pc, Windows 0.7pc, Blackberry 0.2pc.

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Nokia returns to smartphones, feature phones, tablets business

18 May 2016, 12:31

As Microsoft flogs its feature phone business for $350 million.

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Windows 10 Anniversary doubles Start Menu app advert slots

16 May 2016, 10:01

Promoted app advert slots will increase from 5 to 10, show Microsoft WinHEC 2016 slides.

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Microsoft updates Windows 10 UWP for uncapped frame rates

11 May 2016, 09:31

And adds support for Nvidia G-Sync, AMD FreeSync technologies.

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Reports suggest Microsoft Surface Book 2 to pack 4K screen

10 May 2016, 11:31

Second iteration of Microsoft's laptop is rumoured to be launched in June.

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Windows 10 free upgrades offer "to end soon"

6 May 2016, 10:31

And Microsoft happily announces that Windows 10 is on 300 million active devices.

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Windows 10 is on over 14 per cent of PCs worldwide

2 May 2016, 11:31

Meanwhile Windows 7's market share drops under the 50 per cent mark.

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Microsoft buys synthetic DNA for digital data storage research

29 April 2016, 12:31

"A single gram of DNA can store almost one trillion gigabytes of digital data".

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Cortana will now only work with Bing and Microsoft Edge

29 April 2016, 09:31

To ensure Windows 10 users benefit from an "end-to-end personal search experience".

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Microsoft: buy a Lumia 950 XL and we'll give you a Lumia 950 for free

27 April 2016, 10:10

Lukewarm reception to flagship handsets results in the inevitable BOGOF.

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Thecus® Expands Windows Storage Server Line-up with W2810PRO

21 April 2016, 18:54

Thecus® Expands Windows Storage Server Line-up with W2810PRO.

Microsoft Xbox 360 mass production ends

21 April 2016, 09:31

The console celebrated its 10th year of availability last November.

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Microsoft patents gel-based trackpoint with fingerprint sensor

19 April 2016, 13:31

It can also facilitate Force Touch style pressure sensitive UI interactions.

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Uninstall QuickTime for Windows now says US-CERT, Trend Micro

15 April 2016, 12:31

There are two known critical vulnerabilities but Apple won't be updating QuickTime for Windows.

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Remedy addressing Quantum Break's multitude of issues on PC

14 April 2016, 11:01

And we learn that the game will never support DirectX12 multi-GPU rendering.

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Latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build offers Dark Mode

7 April 2016, 10:31

And lots of other new features and improvements.

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AMD Radeon Crimson 16.4.1 is optimised for Quantum Break

5 April 2016, 10:36

Play this Xbox One and Windows 10 exclusive with up to 35pc faster performance.

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Windows 10 ousts Windows 7 as most popular with Steam gamers

4 April 2016, 09:31

(64-bit OS versions) Meanwhile Steam on Linux market share continues to dwindle.

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