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Qualcomm launches Adreno Control Panel for Snapdragon X Elite PCs
By Zac Bowden published
Snapdragon Snapdragon X Elite devices are getting a new Adreno Control Panel app that will let users and developers tweak the GPU for enhanced performance in certain games.

Artist revives Outlook's golden era with a modern icon in a classic color
By Sean Endicott published
Apps Microsoft is testing out new icons for its most popular apps. A recent survey inspired an artist to make a modernized Outlook logo in the app's clasic yellow.

Elon Musk's Grok comes to Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI At Microsoft's annual Build developer conference, the company announced that xAI's Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are joining Azure's long list of AI models.

GPT-5 will be smarter than ever with less AI model switching
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI GPT-5 will be able to achieve everything the ChatGPT maker's current versions can, but with less switching between its AI models.

Microsoft wants to make the web more AI-friendly — here’s how it plans to do it
By Sean Endicott published
AI At Build 2025, Microsoft discussed NLWeb and MCP, open standards that could revolutionize the web and help developers connect sites to AI agents.

Microsoft open sources the Windows Subsystem for Linux
By Zac Bowden published
Linux After years of feedback, Microsoft is finally open-sourcing the Windows Subsystem for Linux, allowing developers to easily modify the feature.

Microsoft 365 Copilot just got a major upgrade with GPT-4o image creation, memory, and improved search
By Sean Endicott published
AI Microsoft’s new Copilot update brings GPT-4o-powered image generation, personal memory, and smarter search.

Windows 11 apps will soon integrate with Click To Do
By Zac Bowden published
Windows 11 Microsoft is giving developers access to an API that will enable specific features to appear contextually in Click To Do to get a task quickly started.
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