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Clippy is back with a new app that brings AI to Windows 11

June 28, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

In the beginning, there was Siri, Google, Alexa… our AI overlords are assembling, and now it seems they include – Clippy?! Is that you?! Of course, most of us remember good ol’ Clippy. They were the assistant you’d find in Microsoft Office, usually trying to correct your spelling in the late ’90s and early 2000s. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ai, artificial intelligence, microsoft

Beset Activision Blizzard bought for $68.7bn by Microsoft

January 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Just a few hours ago, news of Activision firing more people due to sexual harassment broke.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: activision, microsoft, money, xbox

Have you ever heard of the year’s best performing gaming companies?

September 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gamers stuck it to big business, and then, sorry to say, it looked like everyone piled on, and it became another soulless money melee.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: microsoft, money, nvidia

Is the network down? ToolTester puts Xbox vs Playstation in an outage head to head

September 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

No one gets more frustrated by a website outage at the blog than me, but at least I save money when the site is offline! I’m not, for example, Sony or Microsoft with empires to run.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: microsoft, sony, stats, xbox

These are the most hated gaming brands in the world

September 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rave Reviews has data mined Twitter to see which gaming brands people complain about the most. That’s what they’re calling hate.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: microsoft, stats, Ubisoft

$7.5 billion gaming deal: Microsoft buys ZeniMax Media

September 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Microsoft today announced a $7.5 billion cash deal to buy ZeniMax Media, the owners Bethesda Softworks and makers of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom and Dishonored.

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: Bethesda Softworks, microsoft, xbox

Microsoft is bringing Fable back to the Xbox

July 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fable, which might be a reboot rather than Fable 4, will be available for the Xbox Series X and Windows 10 machines.

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: fable, microsoft, trailers, xbox, xbox series x

Limited Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One X deal will be the last of its kind

April 20, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The bundle will be out in June 2020, but the Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox wireless controller is out today, as are some of the other accessories while the rest are on pre-order.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Cyberpunk, cyberpunk 2077, microsoft

Watch the console battle unfold in this line graph race

September 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Watch the consoles battle each other for the top slot.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: microsoft, nintendo, playstation, switch, xbox

4 times as powerful: Xbox Project Scarlett

June 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This might be the last significant tech upgrade in the console war if some pundits are right.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: microsoft, xbox

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