Microsoft has been investigating reports of a Blue Screen of Death with an “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” error message in the latest KB5029351 update. The issues have been affecting some MSI motherboards, and now MSI says “reverting your BIOS to the previous version” is a workaround. Microsoft has paused the update for affected systems, so hopefully MSI can issue a new BIOS update soon.
Microsoft has found an all new level of efficiency in its August 4th Windows 11 test build: Updating your computer’s IP address by typing “ipconfig /renew” into Windows command line is faster. New asynchronous error handling drops response time from 4.1 seconds to just .1 seconds, “depending on system and network conditions.”
And if that doesn’t inspire you, the build also brings HDR support for desktop backgrounds using the JPEG XR (.jxr) file format.
[Windows Insider Blog]
Ah, 2003. We had JNCOs, we were all friends with Tom, and we hated PowerPoint. But some said it was evil. Others, “the end of reason.” The Atlantic recently published a delightful story about the outsized hatred people had for PowerPoint as it reached critical user mass.
It was going to corrode our minds, degrade communication, and waste our time. Its sudden rise and rapid spread through business, government, and education augured nothing less than “the end of reason,” as one famous artist put it, for better or for worse. In the end, it would even get blamed for the live-broadcast deaths of seven Americans on national television.
It’s a good look back at a simpler kind of techno panic, just as social media was prepping to jam worms into all our brains.
[The Atlantic]
Back in April, we offered directions on how to install and navigate Google’s beta version of its Nearby Share app, which lets you share files between your Android phone and your Windows PC. Well, it’s now out of beta, and so we’ve updated our how-to article on, well, how to use it.
