I tried Microsoft’s new Surface privacy screen. The trade-off is obvious
… My uneducated guess is that Microsoft's new privacy screen technology offsets some pixels slightly, dimming them when the privacy screen technology is turned on. …
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Windows 11 still runs on code from the 1990s, Microsoft admits
… Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure and founder of Microsoft Sysinternals, explains in a video posted to social media by the Microsoft Dev Docs account: Russinovich explains how no one expected Win32 to have such a lasting legacy and why he believes it's still so important… …
AI is changing PC graphics. Microsoft wants DirectX ready
… Neither technology, however, is near. The DirectX Compute Graph Compiler will be available for private preview this summer, Microsoft said. …
Xbox Ally X gets smoother gameplay with AutoSR update
… 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’s boring Surface laptop update has one feature I actually want
… To be fair, Microsoft's new privacy screen technology sounds genuinely useful. It's unclear whether Microsoft developed the technology independently, but it sounds identical in concept to the Privacy Display feature on Samsung's new Galaxy S26 phone. …
A Microsoft expert casually dropped this big tip for safe AI use
… While at this year’s RSAC cybersecurity conference, I chatted with Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Microsoft's Data Cowboy and AI Red Team Lead, who dropped a ton of facts about the behind-the-scenes work of securing AI—and a big tip on staying safe while exploring this rapidly growing area of technology. …
Microsoft outs Xbox Project Helix: 'We want to break down the artificial barriers between PC and console'
… Jason Ronald, who was introduced as the "vice president of Next Generation" at Microsoft, demonstrated how Helix represented the evolution of Microsoft's console, explaining some what Microsoft wants to accomplish in terms of technology and features. …
An AI agent in a security badge? That’s Microsoft’s Project Solara pitch
… That’s the idea behind Project Solara, Microsoft’s new platform for putting AI agents in a wide range of devices beyond the standard form factors. …
Windows 11 can now share audio to two Bluetooth headsets at once
… However, with this month's optional Windows 11 update KB5089573, Microsoft gave us this: Shared Audio New! Shared Audio enables two people to listen to the same audio from a single Windows 11 PC at the same time. It uses Bluetooth® LE Audio broadcast technology to make sharing easy. …
Microsoft's Surface Laptop 8 changes very little, but costs a lot more
… I had to download it from the Microsoft Store. Finally, Microsoft added a “privacy screen” technology, exclusive to the 13.8-inch version. …