Software
Bringing a new range of hardware to market is not an easy task, even for Intel. The company has an install base of its ‘Gen’ graphics in hundreds of millions of devices around the world, however the range of use is limited, and it doesn’t tackle every market. This is why Intel started to create its ‘Xe’ graphics portfolio. The new graphics design isn’t just a single microarchitecture – by mixing and matching units where needed, Intel has identified four configurations that target key markets in its sights, ranging from the TeraFLOPs needed at the low-end up to Peta-OPs for high performance computing. Leading up the charge on the driver and software side of the equation is Intel’s Lisa Pearce. Lisa is a 23 year...
Dell 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 2/4/2016
Windows 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 10/2/2015
Microsoft 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...
35 by Brett Howse on 9/22/2015
Microsoft 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 7/21/2015
Examining 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 7/21/2015
Windows 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 7/16/2015
Citrix 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 7/14/2015
Microsoft 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 7/6/2015
Dell 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 6/2/2015
Cortana 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 5/26/2015
Microsoft 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 5/26/2015
Microsoft 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 4/30/2015
Windows 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 4/29/2015
Microsoft 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
PlayStation Plus April 2015 Free Games Preview
April has come and with it, Sony is bringing us their standard bevy of games for PlayStation Plus members. Sony, as usual, is offering six games in total, with...
18 by Brett Howse on 3/31/2015
Xbox Games With Gold April Preview: Double Games!
Microsoft teased last month that April would be a special month for Xbox Games With Gold, with the program doubling up on the games made available. Last month was...
5 by Brett Howse on 3/26/2015
NVIDIA GRID Game Streaming Service To Become Commercial Service
As part of NVIDIA’s suite of GDC 2015 announcements, the company has announced that their GRID game streaming service is getting a promotion from beta to a commercial service. First...
18 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2015
PlayStation Plus March 2015 Free Games Preview
Generally, Sony announces the free games near the end of the month, but for this month, they squeaked it into the third day. But luckily they saved some great...
1 by Brett Howse on 3/3/2015
Next Generation OpenGL Becomes Vulkan: Additional Details Released
Continuing this week’s GDC-2015 fueled blitz of graphics API news releases, we have Khronos, the industry consortium behind OpenGL, OpenCL, and other cross-platform compute and graphics APIs. Back in...
44 by Ryan Smith on 3/3/2015
Xbox One Games With Gold March Preview
March is upon us, and the folks over at Microsoft have announced the upcoming Games With Gold titles that will be made available free to anyone with an Xbox...
4 by Brett Howse on 2/28/2015
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