… Microsoft has used Nvidia’s chips in Surface PCs before, if you count the first Surface RT models. These ran an Arm-native version of Windows 8 that was limited mostly to apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store and offered no x86-to-Arm code translation. …
… Microsoft is introducing a Windows-native version of the coreutils command line tools, so that commands or scripts made for Linux work within Windows and the other way around; the ability to run WSL inside of containers, said to be arriving in “the coming months”; and something called Windows Devel… …
… Nvidia stands to benefit from the years of progress made on the Arm version of Windows since the Windows RT days. Microsoft’s x86-to-Arm code translation layer, codenamed Prism, has gotten better and faster. …
… Nvidia says the old Control Panel will no longer be installed by default, since “all actively supported Nvidia Control Panel features for GeForce users have been modernized and transitioned” to the new Nvidia app. “The NVIDIA app contains all of the modern functionality of the NVIDIA Control Panel … …
… Last month, Anthropic reportedly signed massive deals with Microsoft, Google , Amazon , Nvidia, and more to scale up its access to compute infrastructure. …
… Still, the company has already raised nearly $2 billion from Silicon Valley investors and companies , including Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, Amazon, and OpenAI. …
… Windows Vista and its early WDDM woes had reduced my previously badass main PC with two Nvidia 7900GT cards in SLI to a stuttering BSOD-spitting mess, and the future of Microsoft OSes looked bleak—Windows 7 wouldn’t be along to change the situation for years. …