Microsoft announced today that the first wave of Xbox Insider Program members are gaining access to a pre-release version of the Creators Update.

The Xbox One is impressive on many levels, but the astonishingly poor performance of its user interface is still holding it back.

The Xbox One S is a winner, a svelter and more attractive take on Microsoft's flagship video game console. If you held off on the first generation Xbox One for some reason, now is the time to buy.

The New Xbox One Experience is now rolling out, bringing a major UI refresh, performance improvements, and backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games.

In November, Microsoft will unleash its biggest-ever Xbox One system update, which it is calling the New Xbox One Experience. Currently available to Xbox One Preview members, the NXOE, as I’ll call it, begins the console’s transition to Windows 10, and introduces a nicely improved user interface. I’ve been using the NXOE for the past…

Microsoft has announced that the "new Xbox One experience"--i.e. the update that includes Windows 10--has begun rolling out to the Xbox Preview Program.

In November, Xbox One will be updated to include Xbox 360 game compatibility, a new Guide, a redesigned Dashboard, and a new Store. Oh, and Windows 10.

Microsoft Edge is the default web browser and PDF reader in Windows 11, and a modern and capable successor to the Internet Explorer browser of yesteryear. It's built on the same Chromium web platform that Google uses for Chrome, and it integrates more deeply with Windows and Microsoft online services--most notably Copilot--than other browsers. But…

Microsoft describes Windows 11 as being "fresh and familiar," and while that sounds paradoxical, it's true. That is, Windows 11 offers a fresh new user experience that is simpler, prettier, and more modern than that of its predecessor, Windows 10. But it is also instantly familiar, providing all of the same basic interfaces that Windows…

Happy Friday! And, yep, it's really September already. So let's kick off the long Labor Day weekend with a great set of reader questions. ChatGPT and non-exclusivity helix2301 asks: First of all just want to say love all the site updates great to get some of the behind-the-scenes stuff really great and enjoy it. Thanks.…

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Image source: The New York Times Happy Friday, and welcome to another set of great reader questions to kick off the weekend. This article was NOT written by AI, I promise. :) Overreactions leoaw asks: In the past few days I've had a series of emails from stores that used to offer various member discounts…

Happy Friday! Let’s get the weekend off to an early start with another blockbuster round of reader questions. Our future AI overlords wright_is asks: With the increasing use of AI to recognise NCMEC [National Center for Missing & Exploited Children] and the increasing reliance on online services, there are some serious problems that are coming…

On September 20, 2005, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization that would see Windows lead Jim Allchin effectively demoted before his retirement at the end of 2006, once Windows Vista was made generally available. It was a strange end for the man who had been responsible for Microsoft’s most important platform for 10 years, and it…

At the end of every year, tech blogs lazily pump out “best of” lists culled from back-end site queries. And, yeah, we’ll get to that here soon enough. But in keeping with my description of the Xbox One S as “the perfect thing” four years ago, I’m wondering if we can advance the state of…

I’ve been using Android 10 since its first beta release back in March. And while most focus on the new Dark theme, there’s more to it than that.