‘Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,’ says Windows veteran reminiscing about company’s past focus on speed — asserts that ‘everything’ was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s

A former president of Microsoft’s Windows Division has been reminiscing about the lean and efficient coding regime at Microsoft in the 1980s.
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Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive, OS from 1992 running on 2025 hardware — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat

A retro computing connoisseur has bare-metal installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti PC system.
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‘Side effects may include curiosity’: Google’s $3 ChromeOS Flex kit aims to save your old Windows 10 laptop from the scrapheap

Google’s kit aims to breathe new life into old hardware, and that could be Macs as well as Windows 10 PCs.

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Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’

‘Two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working,’ complains Artemis II astronaut.

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‘I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working’: Artemis II astronauts have the most relatable complaint

Artemis II crew reports Outlook software bug on one of the Orion capsule’s PCDs (personal computer devices).

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Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018

The release notes for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS show that Canonical has quietly raised the minimum RAM requirement for its popular Linux-based operating system by 50%.
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Lil Finder Guy is the cutest thing Apple has made in its 50-year history — and it has a secret

People are going gaga over Apple’s Lil Finder Guy, who arrived just in time for Apple’s 50th Anniversary, but there’s more to him than just a cute face.
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Microsoft deploys yet another emergency patch for Windows 11 — but at least the fix for the broken March update arrived quickly

Couldn’t install the latest Windows 11 update? You should be good to go now as Microsoft has rushed out a fix.

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Microsoft issues emergency update for Windows 11 — fixes broken March preview update rollout from last week

The latest Windows 11 emergency update tackles widespread install errors and replaces the problematic KB5079391 rollout.
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I was in love with Meta’s ‘most comfortable glasses’ ever, and then I saw the price tag

Meta just debuted a duo of new AI glasses styles in its Ray-Ban smart specs lineup, and they’re designed for folks who have prescriptions
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