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Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 Start menu with floating widgets

#microsoft

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24153058/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-companions

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TechDesk, to Xbox
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Following the shock closure of a number of Bethesda studios earlier this week, @theverge digs deeper to uncover the reasons behind these decisions, and finds "growing discontent and fear among Xbox employees about what comes next."

https://flip.it/wZtEdG

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Microsoft-backed Mistral AI could almost triple its valuation

#microsoft #mistral

https://qz.com/mistral-ai-expected-nearly-triple-valuation-6-billion-1851466026

obeto, to microsoft
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Whenever adds new options to settings, it enables them automatically.

That, is an effin' fail.

Why the hell would anyone want sites to know when a user is actively using a device?

Or, why would a user want sites to manage windows on "all of a user's displays"?

How hard would it be to alert users to new settings options, and then get them to opt in or out?

If you don't stop this kaka, all your memos about "security first" are a kabuki, and utter BS.

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massivelyop, to microsoft
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Microsoft continues shrinking ZeniMax and Xbox with voluntary severance deals
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2024/05/09/microsoft-continues-shrinking-zenimax-and-xbox-with-voluntary-severance-deals

loleg, to microsoft
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"employee pressure has had an enormous impact on sustainability at ... But convincing the world’s most valuable company to forgo lucrative oil industry contracts proved far more difficult."
https://grist.org/accountability/microsoft-employees-spent-years-fighting-the-tech-giants-oil-ties-now-theyre-speaking-out/

kerfuffle, to chrome
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You cannot visit a #LinkedIn page from a #Chrome browser without LinkedIn creating an account based on the #Google account info that you're logged in with on that Chrome browser, even if you cancel the account creation process that LinkedIn automatically starts.

Because you didn't actually create that account, you cannot delete it. You have to complete the signup process just so you can then proceed to delete it.

Does no one at #microsoft challenge this kind of implementation?

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davidr, to microsoft
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Any company that uses for is fundamentally unserious.

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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio

#microsoft

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

irfan, to microsoft

#Microsoft says it needs #games like Hi-Fi Rush THE DAY AFTER KILLING THE STUDIO that made (games like) Hi-Fi Rush GOD there's a lack of functioning brains over there HOW

🔗 https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

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noellemitchell, to microsoft
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"Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a massive datacenter to house an AI-focused supercomputer featuring millions of GPUs. The Information reports that the project could cost "in excess of $115 billion" and that the supercomputer, currently dubbed "Stargate" inside OpenAI, would be U.S.-based."

So much could be done with that amount of money... such a huge waste.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-and-microsoft-reportedly-planning-dollar100-billion-datacenter-project-for-an-ai-supercomputer

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Microsoft's 'air gapped' AI is a bot set up to process top-secret info

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152424/microsoft-top-secret-ai-server-gpt-4-azure

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Oh wow... This is something special! I found an early pre-release version of "Castle of the Winds" .. v0.5.4. This was apparently released exclusively for Microsoft employees back in the day.

I think it's an awesome collector's piece! My gratitude goes to "iamxray" for his generous upload.

Here's where I found it:
https://archive.org/details/W3CASTLE

Have fun guys!

Castle Of The Winds 0.5.4 - Warning about the pre-release version
Castle Of The Winds 0.5.4 - gameplay

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ward, to microsoft
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This #Microsoft closing game studios shit is part of a bigger problem with art in general... Executives and money bros started calling it all "content." Then they forgot that artists are the ones who create the art... then they started thinking that they were actually smart when it comes to art. They are not.

Their job is to enable artists, fund artists, and let them create new pieces of culture... They forgot about this, so we get cancelled games, closed studios that were awesome, sequels forever and fear of new IPs, cancelled shows that were good, shelved movies that were completely finished, etc.

Fuck every single rich asshole who thinks they know anything about art. They need to learn their place in society, because the cultural implications of having them behind the artistic decisions is bleak.

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InfiniteHench, to microsoft
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“Game Pass has justified its slow degrading of the value of games by promising that it makes room for little guys to survive. We all know now, finally, that this was a lie. Is it a great value for consumers still? Probably. Has Phil Spencer’s multi-billion dollar project destroyed the gaming industry? I am comfortable calling it a contributing factor to its slow decay.”

#Microsoft #Xbox #GamePass https://gameluster.com/xbox-has-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/

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President Biden and Microsoft Plan AI Data Center on Forgotten Foxconn Plant

#biden #microsoft

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-biden-ai-data-center-wisconsin-foxconn-1851463634

Nonilex, to microsoft
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touts new center on site of ’s deal

Biden will champion a new Microsoft Intelligence investment in on Wedn — showcasing the failed commitments of his political rival Trump, whose promises for a -rich Foxconn plant in the battleground state never materialized.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/08/biden-foxconn-white-house-trump/

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