Microsoft counters the MacBook Neo with freebies for students
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo $499 for students has sent shockwaves through the PC ecosystem, and now Microsoft is responding with deals targeting students in the US. …
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Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes
… These leadership changes at Xbox largely affect the platform teams under former Xbox president Sarah Bond. …
Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure
… Altman came back with an alternative proposal several months later to “create a partnership with Xbox around gaming, and an open offer to share their technology and IP in exchange for expanded sponsorship for their Dota research,” according to Brett Tanzer, now VP of Azure solutions and ecosystem. …
‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
… These changes are happening as the industry reshapes around us. …
Inside the return of Xbox
… Microsoft was clearly ready for the obvious reaction from gamers to a bunch of AI people joining Xbox, so hours after the leadership changes memo Sharma announced that the mobile Copilot gaming feature would be scrapped and that development of Copilot for Xbox consoles will cease. …
After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all
… Getting fiddly Fortunately, everything that’s gone wrong so far has only gone slightly wrong, like a gaming mouse that only works in games, and most of it has been pretty funny, like a gaming mouse that only works in games. …