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Microsoft has confirmed that the company will discontinue selling PC accessories under the Microsoft brand, narrowing the firm's focus to premium-priced peripherals sold under the Surface brand. The decision marks a major fork in the road for Microsoft-badged keyboards and mice, an era that started in 1983. And while the company isn't going to cease the production of PC accessories entirely, the shift to Surface represents a much smaller scope in products going forward. This change, in turn, calls into question the future of ergonomic peripherals at Microsoft, a traditional niche for the company that has resulted in some of their best-known (and most beloved) PC accessories. "Going forward, we are focusing on our Windows PC accessories portfolio under the Surface brand," Dan Laycock, senior...
OpenXR Update: First Approved Runtimes Now Available, OpenXR Coming to Minecraft
Among the many technologies to come under the purview of the Khronos consortium have been augmented reality and virtual reality. Looking to fulfill the group’s mandate to develop open...
16 by Ryan Smith on 7/28/2020
Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher In A New Era of Gaming
A new generation of gaming consoles is due to hit the market later this year, and the hype cycle for the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 has been...
200 by Billy Tallis on 6/12/2020
The Microsoft Surface Book 3 (15-Inch) Review: A Refreshing Dip Into Ice Lake
The PC industry has introduced some remarkably exciting designs over the last five years or so. Some of those designs, such as the thin-bezel laptop, have been adopted by...
125 by Brett Howse on 6/3/2020
Microsoft Springs A Surface Refresh: Surface Book 3 And Surface Go 2 Plus Accessories
This morning Microsoft is announcing a refresh on a couple more of their Surface products that did not get updated back in October. The Surface Book 3 and Surface...
43 by Brett Howse on 5/6/2020
Microsoft Unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate: The GPU Feature Set For the Next Generation of Games
While the 2020 Game Developers Conference has been postponed, that thankfully doesn’t mean everything gaming-related for this spring has been postponed as well. As the saying goes, the show...
53 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2020
Microsoft Now Offers Azure NVv4 Virtual Machines with AMD EPYC & Radeon Instinct
AMD’s 2nd Generation EPYC processors have gained a strong recognition among cloud computing companies, and today numerous instances are powered by AMD’s latest server CPUs. By contrast, however, the...
19 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2020
Microsoft Drops More Xbox Series X Tech Specs: Zen 2 + RDNA 2, 12 TFLOPs GPU, HDMI 2.1, & a Custom SSD
For the past several months both Microsoft and Sony have been slowly but steadily trickling out additional details about their forthcoming gaming consoles. And now this morning we’re getting...
74 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2020
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 Showdown: AMD's Ryzen Picasso vs. Intel's Ice Lake
Occasionally the stars align. It is very rare in the laptop space that we're able to test two devices, with two very different CPU platforms, with the fewest number...
174 by Brett Howse & Andrei Frumusanu on 12/13/2019
Microsoft Announces Xbox Series X: Available Holiday 2020
Microsoft this evening has finally given their long-awaited next generation gaming console a name, announcing the Xbox Series X. The device, formerly known as Project Scarlett, is said to...
83 by Ryan Smith on 12/12/2019
Microsoft Ends Support for Windows 10 Mobile
Microsoft this week has finally retired Windows 10 mobile, ending support for its smartphone OS. However, in a quirk of differing lifecycle policies, the software giant will continue to...
20 by Anton Shilov on 12/11/2019
Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit Day 3 Live Blog: ACPC and XR
The annual Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit is in its final day, and the main focal points for discussion are the Windows on Snapdragon-based Always Connected PCs, with updates to...
21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/5/2019
Lenovo: Foldable ThinkPad X1 to Launch in 2020
At Canalys Channels Forum last week, Lenovo finally revealed launch timeframe for its foldable ThinkPad X1 hybrid notebook that was first revealed in May. The company says that the...
9 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2019
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (15-Inch) Review: AMD Ryzen Surface Edition
This year at Microsoft’s somewhat annual Surface update event, Microsoft surprised everyone by not only announcing a newer and larger Surface Laptop 3, bumping the screen size from 13.5-inches...
91 by Brett Howse on 10/21/2019
Already Working on 2nd Gen: AMD’s Ryzen Microsoft Surface Edition and what Semi-Custom Means
One of the key takeaways from Microsoft’s launch this week was that the company was spreading its wings with devices made by all three major SoC vendors: Intel, AMD...
73 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/4/2019
Microsoft Announces Surface Laptop 3 Family: Now Including 15-Inch Models & Custom AMD Ryzen APUs
Kicking off the holiday quarter for Microsoft, today the company held its annual Surface press event, where the company announced a slate of new laptops, tablets, & 2-in-1s for...
88 by Ryan Smith on 10/2/2019
Microsoft Announces Surface Duo - An Android Dual-Screen Device
Today at Microsoft’s Surface event in New York, alongside new laptops and various other Surface devices, we saw the company announce a new kind of device; the new “Surface...
59 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/2/2019
Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Microsoft Hololens 2.0 Silicon
The final presentation of Hot Chips 31 is from Microsoft, who will be lifting the lid of the silicon behind its HoloLens 2.0 product.
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019
Intel and Microsoft to Continue Supporting Existing Huawei Notebooks
Ever since Huawei was placed on the United States’ Entity List – effectively banning them from receiving US technology – the fate of support for their existing products has...
13 by Anton Shilov on 6/25/2019
Windows 10 May 2019 Update Feature Focus: Light Themes And Sandboxes
This week, Microsoft officially rolled out the Windows 10 May 2019 Update to the world. However, due to some recurring issues over the last couple of updates, the company...
71 by Brett Howse on 5/24/2019
A New Approach To Updates: Windows 10 May 2019 Update Available Today
For those eager to get the latest and greatest production build of Windows 10; good news. For those who would rather watch from the sidelines until the kinks are...
44 by Brett Howse on 5/21/2019
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