Microsoft and AMD get all excited about AI
AI on chips
Software King of the World Microsoft is excited about AI and thinks AMD's new AI engine could help its cunning plans.
Google and Nvidia wade into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard buy
Complains to the FTC
Google and Nvidia have become the latest companies to voice concerns about Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard.
Congress squashes HoloLens sales to military
Poor in field results
Software King of the World Microsoft has found its plans to sell large numbers of HoloLens hardware to the US military have been squashed in Congress -- at least in the short term.
Microsoft can simulate your voice
All it needs is a three-second audio sample
Software King of the World Microsoft has announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample.
Bing gets ChatGPT
Hope it will make Pennies from Heaven
Software King of the World Microsoft is to launch a version of Bing using the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT.
Windows 11 is still not faster than Windows 10 on Intel
Only better at handling some workloads
When software King of the World Microsoft released Windows 11 it said that it would be faster than Windows 10 because it was optimised for more modern hardware, however, the latest figures show that they are still pretty much on par.
Sony complains that Microsoft’s ten-year pledge is smoke and mirrors
Nintendo gamers are not interested
Sony claims that Microsoft’s ten-year deal offered to Nintendo by Microsoft to bring the Call of Duty series to its consoles is smoke and mirrors.
Companies that fire IT staff are going to suffer in the long term
While those who hire them are going to do well
Dumb companies run by corporate geniuses who think they can save money by firing their IT staff to prop up their bottom lines are headed towards future doom.
Microsoft says that FTC is blocking its constitutional rights
Forming monopolies is the American way
Software king of the world Microsoft claims that its bid to buy Activision Blizzard is as much a constitutional right as owning guns.
France's privacy watchdog fines Microsoft €60 million for privacy violations
Take your nasty 'amburger eating cookies out of our sight
France's privacy watchdog has decided not to surrender to the software king of the world Microsoft and fined the outfit €60 million for dropping advertising cookies in users' computers without their explicit consent in violation of data protection laws in the European Union.