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Steam Sets January 2026 Deadline: 32-Bit Windows Support Ends, 0.01% of Players Affected
Valve has confirmed that the Steam client will stop receiving updates on 32-bit versions of Windows starting January 1, 2026, according to a report from Twisted Voxel citing the company. The move...
Surface Laptop 7's ARM Model: The Battery Champion That Still Demands Buyer Beware
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 with Arm processors has been on sale since mid-2024, promising exceptional battery endurance and a suite of AI features under the Copilot+ banner. But six months of...
Microsoft’s Project NEON Became Fluent Design—While the Surface Phone Remained a Rumor
Project NEON was never just about pretty effects. When the first leaks spilled out of Microsoft in early 2017, the internal codename stood for an ambitious cross-device design overhaul that would...
Solitaire’s Secret Mission: How Windows 3.0’s Card Game and Clever UI Conquered the PC World
Microsoft’s Windows 3.0, released on May 22, 1990, sold 4 million copies in its first year—but its most enduring legacy might be a simple card game that taught the world to drag and drop. The...
Bill Gates' Earliest Code Hits GitHub: Microsoft Open-Sources 6,955 Lines of 6502 BASIC Assembly
Microsoft has taken a rare step into its pre-history by releasing the original assembly source code for the 6502-targeted BASIC interpreter that powered millions of early home computers. The...
Bill Gates’ 48-Year-Old 6502 BASIC Code Now Yours: Microsoft Releases Historic Interpreter Under MIT License
Microsoft has published the complete assembly source code for its 6502 BASIC interpreter version 1.1 on GitHub under the permissive MIT License, making a foundational piece of personal computing...
Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC Source Code on GitHub Under MIT License
Microsoft has released the original 6502 assembly language source code for its early BASIC interpreter, posting the 6,955-line file on GitHub under the permissive MIT License. The code, identified as...
Windows 8.1's EGA Illusion: How an Emulator Tricked the OS Into Reporting 256MB VRAM and True Color
{ "title": "Windows 8.1's EGA Illusion: How an Emulator Tricked the OS Into Reporting 256MB VRAM and True Color", "content": "Bob Pony’s recent experiment—installing Windows 8.1 inside an...
Windows 95's $30M Debut: How the Start Button Redefined Computing
Microsoft raked in $30 million from Windows 95 sales in a single day on August 24, 1995, triggering a consumer frenzy that saw 1.63 million copies move through retail channels in just 11 days. That...
Your Copilot+ Laptop Might Still Be x86: How to Spot a True Windows on ARM PC Before It's Too Late
That sleek new Copilot+ PC you're eyeing might not run Windows on ARM. The first wave of AI-infused laptops from Microsoft's Copilot+ program all packed Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM chips, creating a...
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Windows 10 PCs: The Q4 2017 Launch That Redefined Always-Connected Computing
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf delivered a clear message to investors in April 2017: the first ARM-based Windows 10 PCs would launch in the fourth quarter. The statement, made during the company's Q2...
Build 27744 Endows Windows on Arm with AVX/AVX2 Emulation, Expanding x64 App and Game Support
Microsoft's latest Canary-channel Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27744 delivers a long-awaited upgrade to Prism, the x86/x64 emulator that powers Windows on Arm. The update exposes previously...