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China has initiated a policy shift to eliminate American processors from government computers and servers, reports Financial Times. The decision is aimed to gradually eliminate processors from AMD and Intel from system used by China's government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based chipmakers and higher sales of China's own CPUs. The new procurement guidelines, introduced quietly at the end of 2023, mandates government entities to prioritize 'safe and reliable' processors and operating systems in their purchases. This directive is part of a concerted effort to bolster domestic technology and parallels a similar push within state-owned enterprises to embrace technology designed in China. The list of approved processors and operating systems, published by China's Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, exclusively features Chinese companies. There are...
Reducing Bill Of Materials - Windows 8.1 With Bing
Traditionally, Microsoft has been a dominant force in the computing landscape, and with that domination it has cultured partnerships with many companies to have them build PCs based on...
27 by Brett Howse on 5/24/2014
Microsoft Surface Pro 3: Hands On, Display & Performance Preview
Earlier today Microsoft announced its 3rd generation Surface Pro device, aptly named the Surface Pro 3. This is the first Surface model to deviate from the 10.6" 16:9 form...
296 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/20/2014
Microsoft Surface 2014 Event: Live Blog
We are live from NYC at Microsoft's Surface Event. The live blog will begin at 11AM ET, check back soon!
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/20/2014
Microsoft Unbundles Kinect, $399 Xbox One Model Available Starting June 9th
In an interesting reversal of what happened last generation, Microsoft's Xbox One launched at a $100 price premium to Sony's PlayStation 4. Despite Sony building the higher performing console...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/13/2014
TechEd NA 2014 - Services In The Cloud
On Monday Microsoft kicked off TechEd North America 2014 in Houston. TechEd is the technology conference geared towards IT Professionals and Enterprise developers, and focuses on the tools, software...
9 by Brett Howse on 5/13/2014
Microsoft Closes Nokia Acquisition
Back on September 3rd 2013, Microsoft announced its intentions to purchase Nokia's mobile phone business, and after several extra months of waiting for regulatory approval, that deal officially closes...
22 by Brett Howse on 4/25/2014
Microsoft Q3 2014 Financial Results
This afternoon Microsoft held an earnings call to announce the results of their third quarter for fiscal year 2014. Overall GAAP revenue was down less than 1% over Q3 2013...
25 by Brett Howse on 4/24/2014
Scaling Windows - The DPI Arms Race
For several years now, device manufacturers have been in a race to push the pixel density of devices – primarily mobile devices – higher and higher. The race began...
114 by Brett Howse on 4/15/2014
Windows Phone 8.1 Review
I was an early fan of Windows Phone 7. I remember completely switching over to the platform for about a month back in 2010, and being relatively happy. It...
111 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/14/2014
Nokia Lumia Updates - New High End, New Markets
During the day 1 keynote at the Microsoft BUILD developer’s conference, Stephen Elop took the stage to announce some new Nokia Lumia phones with Windows Phone 8.1. First up was...
40 by Brett Howse on 4/3/2014
Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 Update - Desktop as a First Class Citizen
Microsoft’s day 1 keynote for the BUILD developer conference detailed an update to Windows coming on the next scheduled patch Tuesday called 8.1 Update. Notice it’s not called Update...
149 by Brett Howse on 4/3/2014
Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 8.1
This morning at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Microsoft kicked off its semi-annual BUILD developer conference with a keynote address detailing what’s coming now and in the near...
48 by Brett Howse on 4/2/2014
Microsoft Announces DirectX 12: Low Level Graphics Programming Comes To DirectX
With GDC 2014 having drawn to a close, we have finally seen what is easily the most exciting piece of news for PC gamers. As previously teased by Microsoft...
105 by Ryan Smith on 3/24/2014
My First Mobile World Congress: Round Up and Impressions
The decision to send four editors to MWC this year meant that Anand, Brian, Joshua and I were thrust deep in the heart of Barcelona for the best part...
4 by Ian Cutress on 3/7/2014
DirectX 12 to Be Unveiled At GDC 2014
Picking up from where we left off with last week’s discussion of GDC presentations, Microsoft has released a short teaser regarding their GDC presentation. The previously mentioned “DirectX: Evolving...
59 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2014
Low Level Graphics API Developments @ GDC 2014?
With the annual Game Developer Conference taking place next month in San Francisco, the session catalogs for the conference are finally being published and it looks like we may...
63 by Ryan Smith on 2/26/2014
Elop to Lead Devices and Studios at Microsoft: This Means Xbox
News spreading online from a leaked memo point former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to become the new lead at Microsoft’s Devices and Studios division. This appointment puts Elop...
41 by Ian Cutress on 2/26/2014
Microsoft's Mobile World Congress 2014 Event Live Blog
We're seated and ready to go Microsoft's press event here at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Read on for our live blog.
17 by Brian Klug & Ian Cutress on 2/23/2014
Chipworks Confirms Xbox One SoC Has 14 CUs with 2 Disabled
In our mini-review of the Xbox One I speculated that the shipping version of Microsoft's console featured 14 AMD GCN CUs (Graphics Core Next Compute Units), with two disabled...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2013
The Xbox One - Mini Review & Comparison to Xbox 360/PS4
Earlier this morning Microsoft lifted the embargo on press reviews of the Xbox One. I’ve been playing with final hardware and near final software for a few days now...
286 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/20/2013
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