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16 votes
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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
7 votes -
Microsoft announces the Windows Package Manager preview
20 votes -
NewsGuard and Microsoft team up to make NewsGuard free for Microsoft Edge users, Bing integration
5 votes -
Microsoft and Intel project converts malware into images before analyzing it
10 votes -
Inside Xbox - First look at Xbox Series X games
5 votes -
Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
11 votes -
Microsoft launches Surface Book 3
6 votes -
The safety boat: Kubernetes and Rust
6 votes -
Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after a period as an error
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Microsoft buys Corp.com so bad guys can’t
17 votes -
Inside Xbox - April 7, 2020
3 votes -
Microsoft: Cloud services demand up 775 percent; prioritization rules in place
4 votes -
GitHub acquires npm
26 votes -
Inside Xbox Series X: The full technical specs
5 votes -
Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic
10 votes -
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a triple-A 2D metroidvania that expands and improves on the elements of the original game
9 votes -
What you can expect from the Xbox Series X
7 votes -
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world
9 votes -
Microsoft Edge’s NewsGuard extension now requires a paid membership to use
5 votes -
Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale
21 votes -
The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft
15 votes -
Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users
29 votes -
Upcycle Windows 7
25 votes -
Steven Sinofsky: The tenth anniversary of the iPad: A perspective from the Windows team
5 votes -
Competition between video game streaming platforms is heating up as Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming lure away high-profile Twitch streamers with multi-million-dollar offers
11 votes -
Does Microsoft Have a Boeing 737 Max Style Crash Every Week?
8 votes -
For years, Microsoft has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law.
21 votes -
The Dreadnought Diaries - A new series of development diaries following upcoming projects at Ninja Theory
3 votes -
Dad builds custom Xbox adaptive controller so daughter can play Zelda: Breath of the Wild
13 votes -
Introducing Microsoft Application Inspector
9 votes -
The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is out of preview and available for download
19 votes -
Microsoft announces their plan to be carbon negative by 2030
9 votes -
Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
20 votes -
The story of how Microsoft's Kinect grew from a skunkworks motion-controller project into a company-wide effort with massive resources, and was eventually abandoned
6 votes -
CVE-2020-0601 - Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability
16 votes -
Grand Theft Auto 4 for PC is currently not available to purchase digitally due to depending on the defunct Games for Windows Live service
7 votes -
Google, Amazon and Microsoft are now in the oil business
13 votes -
Technical analysis of the trailer for Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 on the next-gen Xbox
3 votes -
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
7 votes -
O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
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Gary Kildall: The man who could have been Bill Gates
6 votes -
CNET reports Amazon is working on a game streaming competitor to Google Stadia
7 votes -
Inside Xbox - Live from X019 in London
9 votes -
Xbox One All Access (Console and twenty-four months of Game Pass Ultimate starting at $20 a month)
3 votes -
US Department of Defense announces that Microsoft has been awarded the $10 billion JEDI Cloud contract
8 votes -
An inside look at Microsoft’s newest flight simulator
10 votes -
Microsoft announces new Surface lineup, including two new dual-screen devices, one of which is an Android phone
25 votes -
Microsoft Surface Neo first look: The future of Windows 10X is dual-screen
9 votes -
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 uses streaming satellite data to allow you to fly anywhere in the world, including taking off and landing at over 40,000 airports
Microsoft held a Global Preview Event on September 19 and 20 for the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it's been NDA'd until today. Here's the official blog post, which doesn't say much itself,...
Microsoft held a Global Preview Event on September 19 and 20 for the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it's been NDA'd until today. Here's the official blog post, which doesn't say much itself, but there are a ton of detailed impressions articles and videos all over the internet today.
The major revelation is that they're using satellite data from Bing Maps and combining it with procedural generation and some other data sources (such as the ability to use live weather data) to make it so you can fly anywhere in the world and it will look extremely realistic. Being able to do this in Google Earth is already very cool (especially in VR), and this should be even better.
Here are a few of the articles - a lot of them have incredibly stupid titles because that's how internet journalism works now, so I'm just going to link with the site's name:
14 votes