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  2.    czoigberg reacted to a post in a topic: Ex-Microsoft veteran calls out Windows 11's "comically bad" performance, 'unfinished' state
  3. acetken
    No, misleading them to store things in a place that few would want to do so, then selling them more storage (even though some users don't even know the difference between local vs. cloud storage) counts. This counts. It's not a conspiracy theory, and even in shareholder calls, Microsoft has stated that it's a move to sell more cloud storage. It's not a conspiracy theory. Stop undermining mockery of ###### corporate behavior because you don't understand mechanisms or intent. Don't normalize this ######.
  4. Nas
    Unless the Apple products are release in-store during the event, any hubbub would invariably be limited until the next tech product release... Of course, there are different audiences for each device type! Enterprise purchases dictate a product's longevity more than consumers' purchase, even for consumer-oriented products.
  5.    czoigberg reacted to a post in a topic: Start menu recommendations are part of the latest Windows 11 Beta Channel build 22635.3495
  6.    Cosmocronos reacted to a post in a topic: Huawei wants to succeed where Microsoft failed, becoming a real threat to iOS and Android
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  8. Good Bot, Bad Bot
    I would love a third option but not one from China. LOL TikTok is facing a possible ban how would an mobile OS ever fly?
  9. Karthik Mudaliar
    Google is investing €600 million to build a third data center in the Netherlands by Karthik Mudaliar Google is investing €600 million (approx. $640 million) in a new data center in Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands. The site will utilize the waste heat it produces for any future heating networks in the district and also feature solar panels on the roof. Currently, Google already has two data centers in the Netherlands—one in Eemshaven, which opened in 2018, and one in Middenmeer, which opened in 2020. The new data center is part of Google's ongoing expansion in the country. One of its unique traits is its sustainability-related features. Google has pledged to run all of its data centers and campuses on carbon-free energy (CFE) by 2030, and the new Winschoten facility will be no exception. Google hasn't yet announced a timeline for constructing and opening the Winschoten data center. However, it is expected to create many new jobs in the region, both during construction and once the facility is up and running. Apart from the expansion in the Netherlands, Google is also expanding its data centers globally. The company recently gained a permit for another data center in Dallas, Oregon. Other companies such as AWS and Microsoft have expanded their data center infrastructure globally. For instance, AWS has added over 87 locations worldwide and expanded into new regions such as the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, India, and Thailand in the last year. In India, AWS plans to invest $4.4 billion by 2030 as the country plans to increase its cloud computing capacity from 565 megawatts to 2.5 gigawatts. The expansion of data centers is primarily driven by a surge in digital transformation initiatives as well as the use of generative AI as companies strive to modernize their IT infrastructure. The majority of growing needs come from hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google as they are currently at the forefront of expanding their cloud as well as AI-related services. Via Reuters
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  11. Nas
    You forgot to click the NEXT link... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT That project is what Huawei is referring to. "The kernel of HarmonyOS NEXT does not include the compatibility layer of AOSP framework with Android libraries from EMUI in the user space and cannot run Android apk apps natively, as is the case with the dual framework HarmonyOS."
  12. George P
    Even Linux distros have their own CPU requirements, specially as you get newer kernels.
  13. zikalify
    Fedora 40 released, main Workstation edition includes GNOME 46 by Paul Hill The Fedora Project has just announced the availability of Fedora 40 which comes in many editions including Workstation, Server, IoT, Cloud, CoreOS, Atomic Desktops, Fedora Spins, and Fedora Labs. As most people will probably opt for the Workstation edition designed for desktops, we’ll focus on what’s new in that. The main change that’s present in this update is the inclusion of GNOME 46. It includes improvements to the Files app, improves accessibility, and the Settings app and other core apps have been refined for better usability. Some other GNOME improvements highlighted by Fedora Magazine include: Grouping of notifications by app. Now, each notification has a header. It shows the app’s name and icon. This makes it possible to see which app sent an alert. Notification now also has an expand button. You can now open a new window for apps pinned to the dash by adding the Ctrl modifier. For example: Super+Ctrl+1 opens a new window for the first app in the dash, complementing the existing shortcut of Super+ that launches the app itself. By default, Tap to Click is now enabled for touchpad. GNOME 46 now features Remote Login option. You can remotely connect using RDP to a new dedicated desktop session when there isn’t an active session. One of the improvements to look out for in the Files update is the new global search feature which lets you search files across all configured locations. It even lets you search the contents of files, filter files by type and modification data, and search multiple locations at once. The Files app has also been improved so that switching between list and grid views in Files now happens quickly, compared to the lag noticed in older versions. Aside from GNOME 46, Fedora Workstation 40 includes performance improvements. There is reduced memory usage in search, terminal apps are significantly faster, app interfaces are more appealing, and there is experimental support for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) for smoother video performance. The VRR support has to be enabled with the following command: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features “[‘variable-refresh-rate’]” Finally, there is a branding change with the Atomic desktops. In the past, Fedora referred to Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea, and Onyx as immutable. Earlier this year, the Fedora Project decided to stop calling them immutable and described them as atomic instead. Fedora Sericea and Fedora Onyx are now known as Fedora Sway Atomic and Fedora Budgie Atomic, respectively. Fedora Silverblue, the GNOME-based atomic option should be similar to Workstation but may offer more security features than Workstation but is admittedly a bit more limited. You can read Neowin’s editorial about why you should pick Fedora Silverblue 40 over Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. To learn more about the new update and download the ISOs, visit the Fedora website. If you have Fedora installed, keep an eye on Software for the upgrade being made available.
  14. Ryster
    Exactly. The minimum requirement for Windows 11 is already Gen 8 Core i CPU, this change isn't raising anything. Non-news.
  15. Xenon
    Exclusive: Injury rates for Musk's SpaceX exceed industry average for second year. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-injury-rates-musks-spacex-211448196.html No real surprise here. Musk's companies always treat safety for employees as secondary. They are components not people.
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  17. bikeman25
    Well The Drive appears to be Good Flew!!
  18. John Callaham
    The Coca-Cola Company plans to spend $1.1 billion to use Microsoft's cloud and AI services by John Callaham Microsoft just announced a major new partnership with a huge consumer company that plans to spend a lot of money to use Microsoft's services. In a press release today, Microsoft revealed its new five-year deal with The Coca-Cola Company. The press release says Coca-Cola plans to spend $1.1 billion during the five-year plan on Microsoft's cloud and generative AI services. It says that the soft drink company has already moved its applications over to Microsoft's Azure, and it has been using the Azure OpenAI Service to help with marketing, its supply chain efforts, and more. The press release says: The company is currently exploring the use of generative AI-powered digital assistants on Azure OpenAI Service to help employees improve customer experiences, streamline operations, foster innovation, gain a competitive advantage, boost efficiency and uncover new growth opportunities. In addition, Microsoft and Coca-Cola plan to jointly experiment with new services such as Copilot for Microsoft 365, to see if they can be used to help worker productivity. Microsoft and Coca-Cola previously announced another five-year partnership in 2020, where Coca-Cola agreed to use Microsoft's Azure, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365 in its business. That included rolling out the use of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams for its employees. That agreement was made in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Coca-Cola used Microsoft 365 Live Events to hold virtual town meetings with its employees. That older partnership saw Coca-Cola spending "just" $250 million to use Microsoft's services. this new agreement seems to show Coca-Cola is going on all in with Microsoft's generative AI vision for the future. Earlier this week, Microsoft announced another new partnership, this time with Cognizant. The service and consulting company plans to purchase, among other things, 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats for its clients. However, the exact financial details of this deal were not revealed.
  19. excalpius
    Indeed. If the Chinese want a backdoor into every Chinese phone, this is the way to do it. Note that Harmony is just a Linux kernel with an Android emulation kernel, so this is not actually a third OS. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS >for smartphones, tablets and Huawei Watch which uses both, the system operates by utilizing a Linux kernel subsystem and executing the AOSP code with a modified EMUI user interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS
  20. George P
    They'll have their success at home but no thanks. We're stuck in this duapoly now and I don't see that changing.
  21. ParadiseLost
    All screen except for the ridiculous thing at the top of the display, that is.
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  23. George P
    Those numbers look solid to me, just need some 3rd party tests to see how it plays out in the real world.
  24. News Staff
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  26. majortom1981
    You need to get EDR software. Something like Huntress. The EDR software will help you figure out where it is coming from. If you subscribe to 365 business standard or premium it comes with defender for endpoint. Norton is garbage and I wouldn't trust Kapersky. Kapersky is russian and could be your source of infection.
  27. majortom1981
    Well, this is easier in China then it is here in the US.
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  29. tsupersonic
    I like the idea of a 2 year release cycle between the SE models. People that tend to get these phones prefer value and probably hold on to their devices for a bit longer. That said, SE 3 was released more than 2 years ago, so would be nice to see a modern successor.
  30. lonegull
    Pitch a fit about the legacy tech still in Windows 10/11, but refuse to accept the end of that tech. Baffling!!
  31. Martin Hodás
    Huawei wants to succeed where Microsoft failed, becoming a real threat to iOS and Android by Martin Hodás The story of Huawei and its relationship with the U.S. government is a long one. The Chinese technology conglomerate was cut from doing business with American companies, including Google, back in 2019, citing security concerns by U.S. authorities. Five years later, Huawei mobile devices are running the company’s homegrown HarmonyOS and the brand is experiencing a resurrection on the Chinese smartphone market. The latest numbers by research firm Counterpoint have shown that while Apple’s Q1 sales dropped from 19.7% in 2023 to just 15.7% this year, Huawei’s HarmonyOS-powered devices are on the verge of surpassing the American rival with a market share of 15.5 percent. Huawei is set to surpass iOS’s market share in China this year and possibly even compete for the top position on this list of best-selling smartphone brands, currently occupied by Vivo’s 17.7%. However, Huawei’s ambitions go far beyond the domestic market, with HarmonyOS being the key element. As The Register reported, Huawei has a plan that, eventually, should put HarmonyOS in a position to rival iOS and Android on the global stage, citing recent statements of the company’s rotating chairman, Erik Xu, who also said: “In the China market, Huawei smartphone users spend 99 percent of their time on about 5,000 apps. So we decided to spend 2024 porting these apps over to HarmonyOS first in our drive to truly unify the OS and the app ecosystem. We are also encouraging other apps to be ported over to HarmonyOS.” Xu specified that Huawei is in the process of porting the first 4,000 apps while talking to developers of the remaining thousand. Once this crucial pool is fulfilled and complemented by thousands of other apps, HarmonyOS will be ready to fight its way outside of China. While Xu claims that Huawei’s “massive undertaking” has broad support in the industry, the fact is that creating a relevant mobile platform to compete with iOS and Android is a huge challenge, one that many others, including Microsoft, have failed to achieve. Windows 10 Mobile suffered from an “app gap,” and bridges, such as Project Astoria, were in the works to offer an easy way of bringing popular apps from competing platforms. Attracting developers and proving that Microsoft’s mobile platform is relevant was key. However, Microsoft never achieved this goal, and the rest is history. HarmonyOS will, certainly, face similar challenges. Huawei is working with Chinese academia to attract young developers and to teach them how to work with the platform. However, the company will have to replicate this abroad. Until then, Huawei’s plan is… just a plan.
  32. MrElectrifyer

    Apple announces "Let Loose" iPad event for May 7, 2024

    MrElectrifyer replied to Chasethebase's topic in Front Page News

    Hah, just a couple weeks before the Snapdragon X Elite versions of the Surface Pro/Laptop get unveiled. We'll see if Microsoft's devices can pull everyone's attention back to them while this is fresh on their mind...
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  34. Chasethebase
    Apple announces "Let Loose" iPad event for May 7, 2024 by Steve Bennett Apple has sent out invitations for its next special event titled "Let Loose," alongside a graphic depicting an Apple Pencil. This suggests that the event will be where the highly anticipated new iPad Pro and iPad Air models will make an appearance after being rumoured for some time and new model numbers appearing in recent software betas. Expectations for new iPads have been at a high ever since there was no event in October 2023. In recent years, iPad events have been held in the autumn months. However, given the lack of an event last year, many people were wondering what Apple's plans were for the device and when the eventual updates would come, given that the iPad Pro was last updated in October 2022 and the current iPad Air was released in March 2022. The included image also appears to show an illustration of an Apple Pencil, which could be suggesting that the Pencil lineup will be getting a refresh. This would be appreciated, given the confusing nature of the current range (which Apple has had to provide a comparison table on its website). The Magic Keyboard might also see a refresh, considering that the existing model was released in 2020, giving it a long shelf life by Apple standards. Finally, there are expected to be four iPad models announced at this event, which would be two new iPad Pro devices and two new iPad Air devices, including the first 12.9-inch iPad Air with a landscape-oriented front camera as seen in the 10th generation iPad, as well as an M2 chip. Other updates to the iPad Pro are rumoured to be a thinner enclosure, thinner bezels, a matte screen option, the aforementioned landscape-orientated front camera, and potentially the inclusion of MagSafe wireless charging. The event will be live-streamed by Apple at 07:00 AM PT (15:00 BST, 10:00 ET) on Apple.com.
  35. TarasBuria
    Snapdragon X Elite and Plus specs leak ahead of official announcement by Taras Buria Qualcomm is getting ready to reveal the full specs of its upcoming Snapdragon X platform that will soon power next-generation Windows 11 AI PCs. The official announcement is expected on April 24, but someone has already leaked specifications of four different SKUs. It appears that the Snapdragon X platform will offer four different versions: three 12-core Elite variants with different clocks and GPU performance and one ten-core Plus configuration. The latter was earlier spotted in Geekbench powering the alleged Surface Pro 10. Core Count Total Cache Max Clocks Dual-Core Boost GPU NPU Snapdragon X Elite X1E-84-100 12 42MB 3.8GHz 4.2GHz 4.6TFLOPs 45 TOPS Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100 12 42MB 3.4GHz 4.0GHz 3.8TFLOPs 45 TOPS Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 12 42MB 3.4GHz - 3.8TFLOPs 45 TOPS Snapdragon X Plus X1P-64-100 10 42MB 3.4GHz - 3.8TFLOPs 45 TOPS One of Qualcomm's engineers recently said that the platform should offer decent performance in games, and most titles should "just work." With the leaked details, we can see that the GPU performance is on par with Intel's latest Core Ultra processors and their 4.6TFLOPs of GPU horsepower. However, AMD's mobile Radeon 780M offers almost double the performance (via Videocardz). According to leaked slides, Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips should offer the following performance in various benchmarks: Snapdragon X Elite Snapdragon X Plus Geekbench 6.2 2850-2900 single-core 15,100-15,400 multi-core 2,400-2,425 single-core 12,800-13,100 multi-core Cinebench 2024 126-128 single-core 1,140-1,200 multi-core 107-109 single-core 825-845 multi-core Chrome (Beta) - Speedomter 2.1 460-500 410-430 Chrome (Beta) - Jetstream 2.1 330-340 280-290 UL Procyon AI 1,750-1,800 1,750-1,800 UL Procyon Office 6,500-6,900 5,700-5,900 PCMark 10 13,500-14,100 12,500-12,800 Blender 430-470 340-360 3DMark 41.9-44FPS 37.1-38.5FPS Microsoft reportedly believes that performance is enough to beat Apple's latest M3-powered MacBook Air. First Windows 11 PCs with Snapdragon X processors inside are expected to hit store shelves in the next couple of months. If recent leaks and code discoveries are to be believed, those ARM PCs will have a minimum of 16GB of memory.
  36. excalpius
    Note that these ###### AI plans are in addition to the paid plans required to actually use any Adobe applications.
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