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Microsoft’s latest Agility SDK packs cutting-edge graphics features

Ryan Daws — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:56:59 +0000

Microsoft has released the latest version of its Agility SDK, packed with innovative graphics features that will be showcased at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2024. The SDK 1.613.0 introduces Work Graphs, Shader Model 6.8, GPU Upload Heaps, and several other enhancements aimed at empowering game developers to create more efficient, flexible, and creative experiences.... Read more »

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Microsoft offers ‘Arm Advisory Service’ for developers

Ryan Daws — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:55:16 +0000

To bolster the development of native software for Arm-powered PCs, Microsoft has unveiled its “Arm Advisory Service for developers”. The new initiative aims to ensure app compatibility for Windows on Arm, a version specifically designed for the processor architecture. Microsoft’s announcement comes in response to research from analyst firm Counterpoint which predicts a substantial rise... Read more »

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Bing Chat will be available to third-party browser developers

Ryan Daws — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:18:19 +0000

Microsoft has unveiled plans to make Bing Chat available to developers of third-party web browsers. “With so many new, useful features now a part of Bing, we’re excited to announce you can start experiencing the new AI-powered Bing in third-party browsers on web and mobile soon,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post. Bing Chat, which... Read more »

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BUILD 2023: Microsoft wants every Windows dev ‘to be an AI developer’

Ryan Daws — Wed, 24 May 2023 14:43:29 +0000

Microsoft announced significant investments in tools during BUILD 2023 to democratise app development for the AI era on Windows. Regardless of the architecture you’re developing for, be it x86/x64 or Arm64, Microsoft wants to ensure that developers can easily integrate AI-powered experiences into their Windows apps, whether they run on the cloud or at the... Read more »

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Sony accused of ‘blatant anti-competitive conduct’

Ryan Daws — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:19:29 +0000

Congress has raised concerns about Sony’s monopoly on the gaming market in Japan, calling for an investigation into the firm’s alleged “exclusionary conduct.” Senator Maria Cantwell told a Senate Finance Committee hearing: “Sony controls a monopoly of 98 percent of the high-end game market, yet Japan’s government has allowed Sony to engage in blatant anti-competitive... Read more »

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Copilot X heralds a new era of AI-powered coding

Ryan Daws — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:58:35 +0000

GitHub has unveiled Copilot X, an upgraded version of its AI-powered coding assistance tool. Copilot X adopts OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 model and now features chat and voice interfaces, support for pull requests, command-line support, and can generate answer questions from documentation: Unlike traditional coding assistance tools that rely on simple code templates or pre-defined snippets,... Read more »

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Microsoft intends to launch a mobile app store

Ryan Daws — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:15:32 +0000

Microsoft is planning to launch a mobile app store that will compete against the App Store and Play Store. According to Microsoft’s Xbox head Phil Spencer, Microsoft will take advantage of an upcoming EU law that will break up the monopoly held by the two major smartphone platform holders. “We want to be in a... Read more »

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Microsoft inflates Bing Search API fees

Ryan Daws — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:33:44 +0000

Microsoft is introducing massive price hikes for developers using the Bing Search API. “We periodically assess the value and pricing of our services to meet market demands and align the pricing of our products and services with customer consumption trends and preferences,” wrote Microsoft. “The new pricing model reflects more accurately the technology investments Bing... Read more »

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GitHub Copilot will enable developers to code using their voice

Ryan Daws — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:52:29 +0000

A new GitHub Copilot feature will enable developers to code using their voice. Copilot was introduced last year and uses AI to help speed up mundane coding tasks by suggesting how to complete lines. Behind the Copilot feature is an AI model developed by OpenAI called Codex. OpenAI claims that Codex has a broad knowledge... Read more »

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Windows Subsystem for Android is now considered stable

Ryan Daws — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:12:31 +0000

Microsoft is making good on its promise to fully support Android apps on Windows. Following the demise of Windows Phone, Microsoft has put its weight behind Android. The company adopted Google’s OS for its Surface Phone and said that Android apps will run on Windows 11 as if they were native. In reality, Android app... Read more »

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