Jacob R recently purchased a custom-built Xbox 360 portable of sorts from online marketplace Mercari that has a 7-inch screen built directly into the case, along with a few other modifications including a carbon fiber skin to give it a sleek aesthetic.
The Clippy Edition made its debut in 2022, and as a followup, Microsoft releases the Windows XP ugly sweater for 2023. At $69.99 USD, this garment features a design inspired by the Windows XP wallpaper, Bliss, in knit, made of 55% cotton / 45% acrylic.
Microsoft unveiled its first two custom chips, the Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100. The former was designed to run cloud-based training and inferencing for AI workloads like OpenAI models, Bing, GitHub Copilot, as well as ChatGPT. It’s the first generation in the series with 105 billion transistors fabricated on 5nm process technology.
Microsoft Windows 1.0 was unveiled 40-years-ago today by Bill Gates during a special event in New York City’s Helmsley Palace Hotel. The official release didn’t come until November 20, 1985, more than 2-years later. This operating system runs on MS-DOS as a 16-bit shell program known as MS-DOS Executive, providing an environment capable of running graphical programs designed for Windows, as well as existing MS-DOS software.
Magnetic technology has a finite lifetime and it requires users to keep copying it over to new generations of media. Microsoft’s Project Silica aims to change that. Simply put, Project Silica can store large amounts of data in drink coaster-sized quartz glass plates and preserve it for thousands of years.
Microsoft Copilot is touted as ‘your everyday AI companion’ and coming to Windows 11, Microsoft 365, and as well as within the Edge web browser. The next Windows 11 update (Sep. 26) incorporates over 150 new features including several new AI powered experiences to apps like Paint, Photos, Clipchamp and more.
Starting today (Sep. 21), you can pre-order the all-new Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2. Featuring up to a 14.4-inch PixelSense Flow (2400×1600) touchscreen with a 120Hz refresh rate, an Intel Intel Core i7-13700H CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 laptop GPU, 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 2TB SSD, and a full HD 1080p webcam.