Microsoft has published an explainer detailing why it does not publish specific performance metrics for its Windows 365 Cloud PC offerings. It does publish relative performance details though.
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WhatsApp has unveiled many improvements for its Windows client. These include better aesthetics, faster performance, audio and video calls with larger groups, and more. A Mac app is being built too.
Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly is jampacked with news about Microsoft handing out free USBs to Insiders, the integration of AI in even more Redmond products, and pirated Windows (!).
A letter from a UK investor claims Google's current headcount is “excessive” as compared to hiring patterns in the past. As such, the company may lay off its low-performing employees to reduce costs.
Microsoft has detailed the performance gains in Visual Studio 2022 17.4. Most Save operations have been moved to a background thread and Find and Replace in Files should be a whopping 3-4x faster.
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This week's edition of Microsoft Weekly is jam-packed with news about Windows 11, including items related to its performance and bugs, growth, as well as some new features that were recently added.
Mozilla Firefox 105 is now available, it packs significant improvements to how the browser handles low-memory situations. Both Linux and Windows customers will see the benefits of these changes.
Marvel's extremely popular Spider-Man Remastered becomes one of the first titles to show insane performance gains going from DDR4 to DDR5. In certain cases, the difference is nearly 40%.
WhatsApp has announced that its new app for Windows is now live. It ditches the web-based Electron framework in favor of Windows-native Universal Windows Platform (UWP) technologies.
The Tabbed File Explorer in Windows 11 has finally arrived for all Dev Channel Insiders. While it is still in its infancy, here are five features I would like the new interface to have if it hits GA!
Microsoft has announced the general availability of a Teams client that runs natively on Apple Silicon. The key benefit here is performance improvements as compared to running Teams on emulation.
Discord has adopted the cross-platform framework React Native for its Android app so it can keep up with the development pace of its clients on other OSes. However, there have been lots of complaints.
Microsoft is working on improvements for the cold boot start time in Xbox Series X|S consoles. The boot up animation has been reduced by five seconds, resulting in a 25% faster cold boot overall.
Microsoft has released the latest Xbox system software. The release notes are fairly uninteresting, as this update focuses on general stability and performance improvements over new features.
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A new report suggests that Microsoft Defender has a bug which is causing it to hog the CPU resources on a system using an Intel processor, leading to reduced performance. AMD is apparently unaffected.
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Google Chrome 103 will be rolling out later today. This is a significant release that features a re-implementation of Chrome's pre-rendering method to improve speed, along with access to local fonts.
Microsoft has shared a lot of statistics that indicate that the Teams client on desktop is much faster in several UX areas than it was back in August 2021. Check out the gains here!
Valve has updated its Steam Deck with support for custom performance profiles that are saved for each game. There are a bunch of other capabilities and fixes in this update too, find out more here!
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Google Chrome 101 is landing in the later hours of today. It is a milestone release because it contains the first implementation of Google's ad profiling mechanisms called the Topics API and FLEDGE.
Following the release of 100 major versions of Chrome, Google executives have penned their thoughts on their key learnings regarding performance, security, privacy, and more since 2008.
After being accused of throttling the performance of its devices for over 10,000 apps using the Game Optimizing Service (GOS), Samsung has indicated it will allow unlocking full performance.
Vodafone has been rolling out 4G technology on phone booths around certain areas to increase the capacity and performance of its network. These will help as customers continue to consume more data.
Samsung has been accused of throttling over 10,000 apps by explicitly naming them in its Game Optimizing Service (GOS). Popular apps include TikTok, Microsoft Office, Instagram, and more.
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Chrome 98 will be arriving later today with support for a new color gradient vector font that Apple's WebKit team has expressed a dislike for. Chrome 98 also removes SDES encryption for key exchange.
Tesla is informing Model 3 owners that they will be getting less range than promised on their cars featuring the new AMD Ryzen powered infotainment systems due to high power consumption.
Krita 5 has been made available for download. It includes improved performance and will use up less RAM. The project is also launching the software on the Mac App Store making it easier to download.
This was a very eventful week in the Microsoft-verse due to a shock announcement from Google, Halo Infinite's release, and a major Dev Channel build, among many other things. Check out our recap here.
Microsoft has published a new capability in Edge DevTools in Edge 97, enabling developers to detect and further investigate DOM leaks in their applications that can result in performance degradation.
Firefox 95 is out with improved security and performance. On the security-front, Firefox 95 is hardened with RLBox to protect against vulnerabilities and Site Isolation is on for everyone too.
Microsoft has quietly introduced Super Duper Secure Mode in version 96 of its Edge browser. But what does it actually do and how do you enable it? Find out in our handy and concise guide today!
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Chrome 96 is rolling out today with some performance improvements in page navigation and retention of PNG metadata in clipboard. It also faces some pushback from the Safari WebKit team.
Microsoft has revealed that thanks to a partnership with Epic Games, it has made the readiness of IntelliSense and semantic code colorization in Unreal Engine projects faster by an order of 18x.
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Microsoft released its first-ever Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 yesterday and the new update seemingly makes the L3 cache latency on AMD Ryzen CPUs much worse than it already was before.
Microsoft recently began deploying HTTP/3 across Exchange Online front-door servers. Microsoft 365 customers can expect latency reductions of up to 67% when using services like Outlook.
OnePlus has admitted to throttling certain popular apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Chrome, Microsoft Office, and more on its OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro handsets. It says that it does this for optimization.
Calling it the biggest update to Outlook for Windows since 1997, Microsoft is rolling out some enhancements to the client which "dramatically" improve performance in shared calendars.
Google is improving the Play Console and introducing new metrics which will allow developers to better analyze their apps' store performance by comparing them to benchmarks set by similar apps.
Samsung's upcoming Note10 is reported to feature a Snapdragon 855 chipset. It is rumored that this variant will be exclusive to Verizon, while other carriers will sell an Exynos 9825 version.
Tesla has decided to stop selling the Standard Range variants of the Model X and Model S. With this decision, it's evident that the firm wants the Model 3 to be the main entry-level product.
Several Pixel owners on Reddit have reported that turning off Google's Digital Wellbeing - a feature designed to help users regulate screen time - has improved performance on their smartphones.
