… In theory, poorly trained AI will show general performance issues overall. Poisoned AI will work well until the trigger word is used. Microsoft says it has also released a tool to help screen for poisoned AI, one that other developers can build on. …
The agentic world that Microsoft and others have envisioned for AI is now arriving in the company's office apps, where prompts are replacing the need to build PowerPoint presentations from scratch, even with Anthropic's Claude. Microsoft is pushing several major changes for office workers. …
… And now, that's back, thanks to Marcus Ash, who leads design and research for Microsoft's Windows + Devices team. Microsoft said it will host a few meetups over the next few months including one just after Microsoft Build, in San Francisco to allow users to chat with developers. …
… Microsoft did design AutoSR as a technology that needed explicit game support, however, and Microsoft maintains a list of games that you can filter to discover if AutoSR works out of the box or if it needs to be opted into. …
… Microsoft did not say that it was explicitly hiring more human testers, however. Microsoft's small Windows Insider team also left for other jobs in the past few months. Less AI? Hurray! It's doubtful that Microsoft will get rid of its investment in AI. …
… The DirectX Compute Graph Compiler will be available for private preview this summer, Microsoft said. …
… So far, Microsoft still implements "Collections" of stored tabs, where you can research and store an ongoing project, like a summer vacation. Like Google, Microsoft is pushing you to adopt Copilot to take over manual tab storage and replace it with an AI summary. …
… The early Auto SR test is available via Windows Insider builds, but it's only explicitly supported for 11 games at launch... which it doesn't list. …
… In any event, Blur Busters applauded Microsoft's addition, and claimed that display manufacturers had 2,000Hz displays in the pipeline for delivery by 2030. The site also cited an unconfirmed message from a contact at Microsoft who said that 5,000Hz support may be added to Windows 11 24H2 and later. …
… Visual Studio Pro is a 64-bit development environment for building modern apps on Windows. You can create cross-platform mobile and desktop apps with .NET MAUI, web interfaces in C with Blazor, and .NET or C++ software that targets Windows, Linux, or containers. …
