Neowin News Feed for: Overhaul

Microsoft to streamline Windows 11, Windows 10 graphics driver quality maintenance

Sayan Sen — Mon, 08 May 2023 16:43:15 +0000

Microsoft is working on streamlining Windows graphics driver measurements as part of its recent overhauling efforts. In a new blog post, Microsoft has detailed how and when this will happen. Read more...

Wikimedia Foundation rolls out new Wikipedia UI to English-language edition

Paul Hill — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:26:01 +0000

The English edition of Wikipedia has received an interface overhaul. Article menus are now easier to access and the search tool is more powerful. It's also easier to switch languages. Read more...

Uber's overhauled app will take you places, faster

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:24:01 +0000

Uber is completely overhauling its app and making things a lot easier for its users. The new app features a cleaner interface, faster performance and new features based on AI and machine-learning. Read more...

You can now try the revamped Paint Preview app for yourself

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:04:01 +0000

After news broke of Microsoft choosing to overhaul its legacy Paint app as a Windows 10 app, someone has now posted the .appx files for anyone to get an early go at the redesigned app. Read more...

Microsoft is redesigning its legacy Paint app as a Windows 10 app with new UI and 3D support

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 02:24:01 +0000

The legacy Paint app has stuck with Windows throughout the ages but has mostly become a placeholder in recent years. Microsoft plans to change that with a massive overhaul of its image editor. Read more...

Firefox ponders marketing overhaul

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:12:08 +0000

The Mozilla Corporation is preparing a number of changes to the marketing of the open source Firefox browser in a bid to further grow market share. "To date, Mozilla has done a reasonably good job... Read more...

US physicians urge game-ratings overhaul

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:11:14 +0000

Earlier this week, the American Physiatrists Association tabled a resolution to "strongly encourage" the "inclusion of 'Internet/video game addiction' as a formal diagnostic disorder." That wasn't the end of the story, though. Now, the APA's... Read more...

Overhaul of Google Video, Plans for YouTube

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:49:07 +0000

Google has announced that Google Video will be transformed into a broader search index for all video online. Google Video search will include results from YouTube and users will be directed to YouTube for viewing.... Read more...

Vice City Stories Gets Site Overhaul, New Trailer

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:26:12 +0000

The long awaited follow up to the PSP's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories has today received what Rockstar are calling a "giant official site update" as well as a third trailer - "In so... Read more...

WDDM Overhaul On The Way

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:14:50 +0000

Microsoft is to overhaul Windows' graphic driver model after realising that the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.0 — which will ship with Vista — needs improvement in the way it shares GPU resources between... Read more...

Key open-source programming tool due for overhaul

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:45 +0000

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built... Read more...

Cisco plans network OS overhaul

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:04:07 +0000

Cisco Systems this summer plans to release a major overhaul of its Internetwork operating system, a move that is expected to bring long overdue improvements--and some possible complications--to software that runs most of the world's... Read more...

Adobe overhaul brings tools together

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:23:15 +0000

Adobe Systems announced Monday new versions of Photoshop and other key publishing and graphics products, but some of the biggest changes won't be in the applications. The software maker's new product combines... Read more...

DNS inventor calls for security overhaul

Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 +0000

Web site impersonation could become as great a risk as ID theft, Paul Mockapetris, the co-inventor of DNS warns. Waiting in the wings is a better security standard for the Internet's Domain Name System. It's... Read more...

Windows 2003 Datacenter gets overhaul

Tom Warren — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 23:21:45 +0000

Microsoft's Windows Datacenter Server has been about more than technology features since its launch in late 2000. Fittingly, the tightly controlled support program that makes Datacenter Server so different from other Microsoft server operating systems... Read more...

FCC Preparing to Overhaul Telecom, Media Rules

Fri, 03 Jan 2003 10:50:30 +0000

Over the next few months, a single federal agency will begin to fundamentally alter the nation's communications and mass-media landscape, rewriting a broad swath of rules that affect the choices consumers have for getting online... Read more...

Notebook overhaul on the horizon

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:39:45 +0000

Five years from now, the desktop will probably look pretty much like it does today, but the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making cellular calls on its own and running on... Read more...

Security overhaul for wireless networks

Sat, 29 Dec 2001 11:49:02 +0000

The security of wireless networks is getting a make-over in an attempt to secure them from drive-by hacking attacks. Respected security firm RSA has found a way to improve the notoriously weak encryption system... Read more...