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Let’s talk about specs for Sea of Thieves Today, the team over at Rare have revealed the system requirements for Sea of Thieves on Windows 10! This marks an exciting time for the team as they move towards the games launch on March 20, as it gives you the chance to see what the performance will be like on your system; For more detail into how Sea of Thieves has been built from the ground up for Windows 10, and for more technical insight into all the great features coming to PC, head over here to read more about today’s news! Source: Let’s talk about specs for Sea of Thieves

Virgin Galactic partners with Microsoft Edge to create an immersive web experience for aspiring astronauts Divya Kumar is on the Microsoft Edge team; Tom Westray is on the Virgin Galactic team. We’ve all stared into the depths of the night sky, identified far off planets, and the Milky Way; but only fewer than 600 people have traveled above and beyond Earth’s atmosphere and into space. At Virgin Galactic, our rocket scientists, engineers and designers from around the world are united in creating something new and lasting that could change that – the world’s first commercial spaceflights for private astronauts and science research. We’re on the edge of a golden age of space exploration, which has the potential to transform our business and personal lives in ways we can only yet imagine. Virgin Galactic’s vision to open space to change the [ more… ]

Windows Analytics now helps assess Meltdown and Spectre protections Last month, I shared some insights into what we learned early on in helping customers respond to the industry-wide vulnerabilities of Spectre and Meltdown. A top question we continue to hear from IT professionals around the world is how can they best assess if the Windows devices across their enterprise are protected? These hardware-based security vulnerabilities are a new challenge for all of us. Customers’ devices require both updates to CPU microcode (firmware) and the Windows operating system, and anti-virus software must be compatible with the latest Windows updates. To help IT professionals everywhere, we have added new capabilities to our free Windows Analytics service1 to report the status for all the Windows devices2 that they manage. These new capabilities include: Anti-virus Status: Some anti-virus (AV) software may not be compatible with [ more… ]