Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond’s leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators. The software titan is rather late to the … Read more
[Updated 2024/05/22 with revised info for new devices] Introduction Pen comparison chart Chart Notes How to read the table FAQ Which pens shipped with which device models? What colors are available? Replaceable pen tips? Batteries & Charging Buttons & Erasers … Read more
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal. Microsoft told … Read more
The Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise has delighted pilots and simmers for over four decades, and we are incredibly proud to bring this amazing experience to PlayStation for the first time. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is the world’s most advanced consumer … Read more
People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that … Read more
Historical Significance This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed … Read more
📄 Report · Code · 🤗 Hugging Face · Demo VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, … Read more
POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). It addresses common challenges in prompt development, such as lack of structure, complex data … Read more
Microsoft has plenty of open-source projects, and these days, the company is much more open to community contributions. Still, plenty of code remains closed-source, and the company constantly receives more requests to open it. One of them is WinUI, Windows … Read more
You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT. I develop open-source code. But that never made me one of the “I hate proprietary software or IT giant corporations” types. I always saw the nice things that Microsoft offered to … Read more