New Xbox update lets you move the Guide menu and shuffle Home backgrounds
Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox Insider update with rotating dynamic backgrounds, a movable Guide menu, and disc-to-digital library controls. Read more...
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Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI comp…
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Microsoft’s latest email outage turned into a full blown global cloud crisis
Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
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“We’re tired of Microslop”: Microsoft asked for AI tips on the day a Microsoft 365 outage hit millions, and the top reply said to “make sure that your product doesn’t fail”
While Outlook, Teams and Exchange Online were falling over for businesses around the world on November 12, Microsoft Learn’s account on X asked, “What’s one AI habit beginners sho…
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Fable's Latest Showing Didn't Exactly Blow Our Socks Off
It's the first time the Xbox RPG didn't wow us. Here at Pure Xbox, we're rather stoked about Playground Games' revival of Fable . We were picking jaws up off the floor in June , t…
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Surface Laptop Ultra review: The most powerful Surface yet, but it still lags behind Apple
Microsoft's latest Surface is a beautiful flagship device for NVIDIA's RTX Spark.
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Microsoft’s massive Outlook outage continues
Service is gradually starting to recover for Microsoft Outlook and 365 after an almost two-day outage impacting millions of users around the world. While some apps and features ar…
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