Steven Sinofsky steps down as Windows chief Windows is under new management. In a surprise executive shakeup earlier today, Microsoft announced... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows |
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Etc. Morning, folks. Hope you had a good weekend. I am typing to you this morning from my recently upgraded main PC. On Friday, I did something... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems |
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Chrome Remote Desktop gains audio, comes out of beta Just over a year ago, Google introduced, in beta form, an interesting Chrome extension dubbed Chrome Remote Desktop. The extension provided cross-platform Remote Desktop-like... Type: News story Tags: Software |
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Office 2013 hits release-to-manufacturing status As we've pointed out before, Microsoft isn't just refreshing its PC and phone... Type: News story Tags: Software |
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AMD releases Radeon-branded RAMDisk software System RAM is pretty inexpensive these days. Dual-channel kits routinely serve up 8GB for as little as $40, making it easy for just about anyone... Type: News story Tags: Memory Software |
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The Atlantic digs into Google Maps' Ground Truth Google Maps has gotten a lot of praise lately, in part because the Apple Maps app that replaced it in iOS 6 has been somewhat... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Software |
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Firefox to nag users about plug-in updates Not keeping your browser plug-ins up to date can be dangerous. Security holes... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software |
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Mozilla releases preview of Firefox for Windows 8 The Windows 8 version of Firefox sure has come a long way since that early demo we saw in April. Now, Mozilla has... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software |
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AMD teams with Oracle on Java acceleration, Qualcomm on HSA AMD has teamed up with Oracle to work on Project Sumatra, a bid by the OpenJDK community to explore how Java can be accelerated by... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Software |
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New Chrome release allows mouse-controlled FPSes Chrome 22 came out yesterday. Along with minor cosmetic changes and bug fixes, the latest Google browser update adds something that ought to please PC... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Software |
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Serious Windows 8 RTM Flash flaw finally patched Testing Windows 8 RTM? Great news! You won't have to live with an... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows |
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Oh, Sublime Text, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways... Okay, so I never dreamed I'd ever spend $59 on a text editor. I mean, there are perfectly good ones out... |
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Google Apps to drop IE8 support in October Two and a half years ago, Google stopped supporting Internet Explorer 6, and web developers everywhere breathed a sigh of relief. They, too, were... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software |
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It's official: Office RT will lack some features Well, those rumors that were going around last month were spot on.... Type: News story Tags: Software |
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Office 2013 upgrade offer could start on October 19 These are momentous times for Microsoft. Over the next several months, we're going to see the company refresh not just Windows, but also its Office... Type: News story Tags: Software |
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New Steam beta lets you install games to other drives Steam's great—I'd go so far as to say it's one of the best things about PC gaming. It's not so great for gamers with solid-state... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Software |
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Couch-friendly Big Picture UI comes to Steam We first heard about Steam's Big Picture mode last February. At the time, Valve promised a couch-friendly user interface for its popular game... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Software |
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$5 Win8 app skips Metro on startup If you were reading the news last month, you might have heard that the release version of Windows 8 won't allow folks to boot... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows |
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Samsung 970 Pro NVMe SSDs are ready to take a licking | 6 |
Gaming bench status update: I'm collecting a whole new set of numbers out of caution because of some weird deltas I'm observing upon retesting some co... | +36 |