Sean Hollister

Senior Editor

Microsoft is making File Explorer more powerful with version control and 7z compression

Sean HollisterMay 21, 2024

Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments

Sean HollisterMay 21, 2024

Sean HollisterMay 20, 2024

Microsoft’s AI upscaling for games on Copilot Plus PCs is limited to specific games.

Another tidbit from the FAQ:

At initial launch, Super Resolution will be available in a limited number of games available through the Xbox app for Windows PC: 7 Days to Die, BeamNG.drive, Borderlands 3, Control, Dark Souls III, Dying Light, The Forest, God of War, Resident Evil 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Skyrim SE, Sons of the Forest, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Unturned, Warframe, and The Witcher 3.

Is that just Microsoft putting its best foot forward, or do games need patched individually?

Sean HollisterMay 20, 2024

What will Microsoft’s Recall remember?

From the FAQ:

📎“You can select specific apps or websites visited in a supported browser to filter out of your snapshots.”

📎“Recall also does not take snapshots of certain kinds of content, including InPrivate web browsing sessions in Microsoft Edge.”

📎“Recall will not store DRM content.”

📎“Note that Recall does not perform content moderation.”

📎“It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers.”

Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs

Umar Shakir

May 20

Microsoft’s Surface and Windows AI event live blog: it’s Arm time

Allison Johnson, Tom Warren and 1 moreMay 20, 2024

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The MSI Claw is an embarrassment

Every competitor is better, and most of them are cheaper.

Sean HollisterMay 18, 2024

Behold Ayaneo’s sophisticated takes on the Game Boy and Game Boy Micro

Sean HollisterMay 18, 2024

Sean HollisterMay 17, 2024

I would watch the heck out of a good Sierra On-Line documentary.

Ken and Roberta Williams are some of the most influential video game designers ever, and also founded a video game publisher that did a whole lot more — until Sierra On-Line became a victim of massive accounting fraud and dramatically collapsed.

Vice’s Waypoint published this must-read feature story about it, before it, too, became a victim. Now, an authorized Sierra documentary is coming:

Sierra On-Line's History To Be Told In New Documentary, Legends Of Adventure

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