Logicalis achieves Microsoft Frontier Partner status | Windows
Logicalis has achieved Microsoft Frontier Partner status along with a Copilot specialization. This achievement indicates their readiness to support scaling enterprise AI deployments with integrated governance. These developments come as…
Read moreWhat’s going on with Xbox’s id Software? Here’s why rumors of the DOOM studio’s impending demise are completely premature. | Windows
Xbox’s cuts over the past week have been brutal; let’s not mince words here. Four studios divested with a possible fifth in progress, over a thousand jobs removed already, with…
Read moreDell gives PC gamers and workers a break with these discounted laptops, desktops, and monitors — starting below $1,000 | Windows
Summer is taking a heavy toll on us all. Not just because of the heat, but also because of rising tech prices across the board, driven by RAM-hungry AI and…
Read moreA mad gaming genius managed to recreate Minecraft on the Game Boy Color and even the original Game Boy — because why not? | Windows
This week has mostly been a depressing affair for the gaming industry, what with Sony killing off physical PlayStation Discs and Microsoft laying off over 3,200 roles at Xbox. We…
Read moreUbisoft rewards its Barcelona branch for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag: Resynced’s strong launch with 51 employee layoffs | Windows
The launch of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag: Resynced, the highly anticipated (and high-scoring) remaster of one of the best games in the Assassin’s Creed series, has been followed by 51…
Read moreMicrosoft confirms Secure Boot update failing on some Windows 11 PCs, blocks update due to known issues | Windows
Microsoft has confirmed that Secure Boot certificate updates are failing or being blocked on some Windows 11 PCs due to known issues. The company says it is working with PC…
Read moreFEV partners with Microsoft on in-car AI using NVIDIA | Windows
FEV is collaborating with Microsoft to integrate generative AI capabilities into vehicles, built on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated compute and AI model microservices, the companies announced in Aachen, Germany. AACHEN, GERMANY –…
Read moreWarhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV continues to impress with a new gameplay showcase of the game’s most unorthodox yet horrifying playable factions | Windows
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV continues to show more extended demonstrations of its real-time strategic gameplay with a new 15-minute video. The last video focused on the Space Marine…
Read moreBefore you buy a new laptop, try this $10 Windows 11 Pro upgrade | Windows
TL;DR: Give a PC a major upgrade with a Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license, on sale now for just $9.97 (reg. $199) until July 19. Before you start shopping for…
Read moreMicrosoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger | Windows
Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now using AI to “identify potential issues…
Read moreThis Microsoft tool helped me shut down the startup apps that Task Manager wouldn’t show me | Windows
Windows Task Manager, as well as the Startup Apps page in Windows Settings, can show you which apps automatically start when you log in and let you disable the ones…
Read moreYou can’t fully disable Microsoft’s GDID Windows 11 tracker, but these settings limit what it captures | Windows
What is GDID, the Windows device fingerprint that helped the FBI catch a hacker A 19-year-old walked through Helsinki airport in April 2026 carrying two 2TB hard drives and a…
Read moreBethesda Union calls for fans to voice their concerns regarding the recent Xbox job cuts at Bethesda, and they aren’t sugar-coating their opinions | Windows
Recently, Bethesda‘s Union expressed frustration that Zenimax and Bethesda, the studio currently in charge of award-winning Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and DOOM franchises, among others, has suffered job cuts as…
Read moreWindows 10 is still getting Windows 11 features, but it’s only for developers | Windows
Microsoft confirms that you can run WSL Containers in Windows 10 We recently installed WSL Containers on Windows 11 and built a custom Linux container from scratch to see how…
Read moreMicrosoft’s Edge 150 caves to Chrome users with Google sign-in, but sidebar apps got dropped in the same update | Windows
Microsoft released Edge 150 a few days ago, and I’ve been bouncing between Windows and macOS devices to dig into it and see what the company has cooked up. Edge…
Read moreCasualties of Xbox’s big “reset” keep piling up as the team behind The Elder Scrolls Online has had to let over 200 people go | Windows
We have recently heard rumors saying that Zenimax and Bethesda will be ‘significantly’ impacted by Xbox’s company-wide restructuring. So far, these rumors are coming true in depressing ways, as DOOM…
Read moreAlienware’s new flagship QD-OLED ultrawide is the perfect monitor for gamers — as long as you don’t mind these small drawbacks I found when testing | Windows
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Read moreA stacked $223 LEGO game collection on Steam is discounted to $9, and every title is Steam‑verified for smooth play on Deck and other handhelds | Windows
I’ve managed to just about avoid the Steam sale relatively unscathed, but alas this insane deal from Green Man Gaming has just had me double dipping on some of my…
Read moreMicrosoft Teams just added 7 new features, but paused the one that fixed multitasking in meetings | Windows
June 2026 was a big release for Microsoft Teams, but there’s more on the table than I expected, with another update in the works for release through the summer. Teams…
Read moreIt’s not just monitoring software anymore: Microsoft’s new tool can tell your boss when you slip out of the office | Windows
Microsoft has rolled out a workplace check-in feature for Teams and Microsoft Places that can automatically update whether a worker is in the office when their laptop connects to a…
Read moreReport: The layoffs at Xbox’s DOOM studio id Software are even worse than we thought — devs at Bethesda’s Austin office have been hit, too | Windows
Earlier this week, Microsoft initiated a large wave of 4,800 layoffs that hit the firm’s Xbox and gaming divisions particularly hard, with four studio divestitures and 3,200 cuts — 1,600…
Read moreSourcetable Humiliates Microsoft Copilot and Google Sheets in New AI Benchmark | Windows
Sourcetable scored 24/24 on the independent Sourcetable Benchmark, outperforming Microsoft Copilot (19/24) and Google Sheets (17/24). Independent Sourcetable Benchmark shows Sourcetable clearing every test while Copilot and Google Sheets choke…
Read moreMicrosoft executive buys waterfront Bellevue estate in $19.6M deal | Windows
The Chief Marketing Officer of Microsoft, Takeshi Numoto, purchased a waterfront home in Hunts Point in late June, marking one of the largest real estate transactions of the year in…
Read moreI replaced 4 apps with Excel—and I don’t miss them | Windows
Like a lot of people, I’d ended up with a surprising number of tiny productivity apps over the years. One tracked my tasks, another handled budgets, another organized related data,…
Read moreMicrosoft’s New Outlook is fixing one of email’s most embarrassing mistakes, plus faster categorization | Windows
Microsoft has confirmed that three new features are coming to the new Outlook for Windows, and there’s one change that might make it a bit more useful than the Classic…
Read moreDOOM dev id Software was “toying around” with game ideas before Xbox layoffs gutted it — a John Wick-style “Gun Fu” game and Perfect Dark were in consideration | Windows
While the ZeniMax and Bethesda studio id Software is best known for its DOOM games — including both the classic titles as well as the modern installments DOOM 2016, DOOM…
Read moreXbox’s RPG studio Obsidian is making a new Fallout game with Bethesda and Fallout: New Vegas’ game director — and it’s canceled an Avowed sequel to do it | Windows
Shortly after it was reported that Xbox’s RPG studio Obsidian Entertainment lost 25% of its workforce to Microsoft’s mass Xbox layoffs earlier this week, it’s come to light that the…
Read moreAssassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced review | Windows
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Read moreXbox’s Backwards Compatibility Program and Cloud Gaming lead has been laid off from Microsoft after 37 years — “I wish the team nothing but success” | Windows
A massive wave of 4,800 layoffs hit Microsoft on Monday morning this week, with 3,200 of the cuts aimed at Xbox specifically for a “reset” of the firm’s gaming business….
Read moreClaude and ChatGPT Are Getting Too Expensive, Even for Microsoft | Windows
Using the most advanced AI models at a corporate scale isn’t cheap, even for a company as massive as Microsoft. The cost of AI tokens, the unit used to measure…
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