Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought
Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.
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Windows 11’s famous Windows key may get a new job, but Microsoft can’t ignore your “muscle memory”
If you press the Windows key on your keyboard, it opens the Start menu, but what if it could do more? Microsoft has some ideas. The post Windows 11’s famous Windows key may get a new job, b…
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Microsoft.UI.Reactor: a C#-first way to build WinUI apps
If you caught our session at Microsoft Build 2026 or you’ve been watching the repo, you’ve seen this one taking shape in public for a while now, and a lot has changed since Build.…
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Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock…
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Advanced Shader Delivery is Now Available in Windows 11
Microsoft announced that Advanced Shader Delivery is now generally available for videogames downloaded from the Xbox app or Microsoft Store in Windows 11. The post Advanced Shader…
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Claude Duet is Anthropic's answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots
Anthropic subscribers in the US can join a waitlist to try the company's new agent.
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How to delay startup apps and stop them from slowing down Windows
If you've got too many apps piled up when you start Windows, your PC can become overloaded every time you boot it up. Here's one way to ease the load without disabling t…
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