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Desktop CPU shipments plunge to lowest total in nearly 30 years

Mercury Research's latest CPU market report is nothing but bad news for Intel, as x86 CPU shipments plummet and AMD ascends.

AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 7000 CPUs will arrive before September ends

AMD will ship its next-generation Ryzen 7000 processors this quarter which means Ryzen 7000 will hit the streets by the end of September.

Intel will raise CPU prices after losing $500M this quarter

Intel will raise prices on processors and is exiting the Optane and drone businesses as it reported an unexpected loss for the second quarter of 2022.

Microsoft says PC market ‘deteriorated’ in June

Microsoft reports strong Surface sales, but notes that the PC market began falling in May and June thanks to production shutdowns.

Windows 12 could be coming in 2024 as Microsoft shakes things up

A new report says that Microsoft is moving to a three-year cadence for new versions of Windows, which would schedule Windows 12 to release on 2024.

Microsoft is ready to leave Windows 8 behind, just like everyone else

Windows 8.1 support will officially end next year, with notifications starting in July.

New Microsoft Teams AI feature could kill need for a headset

Microsoft said Monday that it's using AI to improve Microsoft Teams calls further, with better two-way voice, echo cancellation, and smoother screen sharing.

Apple says new M2 chip won’t beat Intel’s finest

Apple's new M2 is a worthy sequel to the M1 but doesn't flat out beat Intel's best CPUs in performance.

Microsoft’s iconic browser Internet Explorer is being killed off in June

Microsoft has some bad news: the vendor will officially end support for the Internet Explorer desktop application on June 15, 2022.

Desktop CPU sales plunge 30% but AMD soars even higher

Shipments of desktop PC CPUs fell by more than 30 per cent during the first quarter of 2022 -- the largest drop in desktop CPU sales in history.

Gamers call EVE Online ‘spreadsheets in space.’ Now it’s getting official Excel love

CCP Games announced that data in the extraordinarily complex space sim will be able to be exported to Excel later this year.

Microsoft’s universal ‘One Outlook’ client just leaked out

A version of Microsoft Outlook that's expected to eventually replace the mix of Outlook clients currently available has leaked, and screenshots are available.

U.S. SEC slaps Nvidia with a US$5.5 million fine over GeForce GPUs used for crypto

Nvidia failed to disclose that a significant portion of its revenue during 2018 came from customers mining the volatile Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, and paid a $5.5 million fine to settle charges.

Microsoft reveals a new Windows Game Bar built for controllers

You'll need to be a Windows Insider and an Xbox Insider to test the new controller-centric Game Bar.

Apple, Google, Microsoft commit to killing passwords entirely

The FIDO Alliance said that Apple, Google, and Microsoft have committed to a passwordless future where you'll use your fingerprint or PIN on your phone to log in to virtually any other phone or PC—even a brand new one.