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Zune, Windows Live brands said to be on the chopping block by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:42 PM on February 24, 2012 Microsoft is cleaning house, it sounds like. We found out this morning that the company might cut down on the number of OS editions with... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows	53
A look at TR's new GPU test rigs by Scott Wasson — 12:22 PM on February 24, 2012 As I mentioned on the podcast this week, I have been working to re-fit Damage Labs with new hardware all around.... Type: Blog post Tags: Graphics Systems The Tech Report	42
Windows 8 editions listed in HP driver notes by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:28 AM on February 24, 2012 Now, this could simply be a placeholder, not a genuine list of the upcoming Windows 8 editions. Still, it's an interesting slip-up by HP. As... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	43
TR's March 2012 system guide by Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior, and Scott Wasson — 4:16 PM on February 22, 2012 Not much new hardware has come out since we published our last guide in December, but this edition is still choc-full of small, incremental... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations	217
VLC media player 2.0.0 released by Geoff Gasior — 11:02 AM on February 21, 2012 VLC media player is arguably the best video playback software around. If you're a fan, good news: version 2.0.0 has been released in... Type: News story Tags: Software	101
Windows 7, Vista to get extended support by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:37 AM on February 21, 2012 Microsoft is extending an olive branch to stragglers. According to ComputerWorld, the company has quietly prolonged the support period for consumer editions of both... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	74
It's official: The new Windows logo is a monochrome trapezoid by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:56 PM on February 17, 2012 Score one for the rumor mill. Microsoft officially unveiled the Windows 8 logo on its Windows Blog this morning, and as expected, it's... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	134
Toshiba pegs Windows 8 launch in fourth quarter by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:45 AM on February 16, 2012 Don't expect Windows 8 before October. That's the (perhaps unintentional) subtext of a recent Toshiba presentation captured by the folks at NetbookItalia. In the presentation,... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	15
Windows logo to get a Metro makeover by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:33 AM on February 14, 2012 Goodbye, multi-colored Windows flag inside a blue bubble. Hello, quadrisected monochrome trapezoid. The Verge reports that the familiar Windows logo is going to get... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	65
Microsoft details Windows on ARM in new blog post by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:10 PM on February 9, 2012 Windows head honcho Steven Sinofsky has posted a whopper of a blog post about Windows on ARM. The 8,600-word piece starts off with a... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows Personal tech	29
WSJ: Google to offer Dropbox-like 'Drive' service by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:35 AM on February 9, 2012 Watch out, Dropbox. You're about to get some competition from Google. At least, that's what the Wall Street Journal says, quoting "people familiar with the... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	17
Windows 8 Consumer Preview due February 29 by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:59 PM on February 8, 2012 Three weeks to go until you can get your hands on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. As CNet News reports, Microsoft has revealed the... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	44
Google serves up Chrome for Android 4.0 by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 8, 2012 Wait, doesn't Google already make the default web browser for Android? That's what I thought when I came across this bit of news yesterday. As... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software Personal tech	36
Flash Player for Firefox to get its own sandbox by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:45 AM on February 7, 2012 Looks like Adobe is hard at work trying to keep Flash secure. After successfully teaming up with Google to integrate a sandboxed Flash Player... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	28
Leaked Windows 8 shots show missing Start orb by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:39 AM on February 6, 2012 Microsoft seems to be erasing all traces of the Start menu we all know and love, at least in Windows 8's default configuration. Last year's... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	47
Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 to have shared kernel by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 3, 2012 We know that Windows 8 is taking a page out of Windows Phone 7's playbook by implementing the same Metro user interface. According to the... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows Personal tech	53
Firefox 10 adds built-in dev tools by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:56 PM on January 31, 2012 With major new versions of Firefox and Chrome rolling out every few weeks, it's easy to tune them out. Believe it or not, though, the... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	16
Microsoft outlines Explorer tweaks in Win8 beta by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:34 PM on January 30, 2012 The upcoming Windows 8 public beta will no doubt offer a myriad of improvements over last year's developer preview. Microsoft has outlined a handful of... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	20

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NeelyCam

Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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I'm getting less and less thrilled by Haswell every day now. And AMD would likel... +38

codedivine

Well, the 200W barrier has been broken. Now onto 500W! +35

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