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Tom Warren is a Senior Editor and author of Notepad. Tom previously founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge. Tom also used to work as an enterprise project manager in a variety of investment banks, and has a background in IT and Windows engineering. Tom has appeared on CNN, CNN International, BBC News, Channel 4, MSNBC, TWiT, and many others over the years.
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A corporation joining Bluesky isn’t normally news, but Microsoft managed to do it in style this week. The first thing you’ll probably notice is the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper and a pun about blue skies, but if you look a little closer you’ll see Microsoft even backdated this post to its founding date of April 4th, 1975 using Bluesky’s AT Protocol. That’s the kind of nerdery that Bluesky users appreciate.
Microsoft is stepping up its Copilot Plus PC marketing today with a new ad for the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World movie. The 60-second spot features Danny Ramirez’s Joaquin Torres (Falcon) using a Surface Laptop 7 with Paint’s Cocreator AI mode to generate images. Microsoft has been running similar TV ads in recent weeks, claiming that its Qualcomm-powered laptops are somehow “the fastest... Windows PCs ever.”
Nvidia has just released its latest driver (566.36) and it’s the first to include the optional Nvidia app instead of the GeForce Experience. It also includes Game Ready support for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and a fix for Forza Horizon 5 and God of War Ragnarök crashes. You can download it over at Nvidia’s website.
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This year Microsoft highlights your preferred gaming platform, total time played, and number of games played for its Xbox year in review. You can see how you stack up against other players, how much gamerscore you earned in 2024, and a list of your favorite games. There’s even a little shout-out from Xbox chief Phil Spencer, too.
[www.xbox.com]
