Introducing Power Throttling

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Introducing Power Throttling Most people running Windows like having multiple apps running at the same time – and often, what’s running in the background can drain your battery. In this latest Insider Preview build (Build 16176), we leveraged modern silicon capabilities to run background work in a power-efficient manner, thereby enhancing battery life significantly while still giving users access to powerful multitasking capabilities of Windows. With “Power Throttling”, when background work is running, Windows places the CPU in its most energy efficient operating modes – work gets done, but the minimal possible battery is spent on that work. You may remember some of our January power experiments we mentioned in Build 15002’s release notes. Power Throttling was one of those experiments, and showed up to 11% savings in CPU power consumption for some of the most strenuous use cases. We’ve [ more… ]

Voodoo Vince: Remastered launches today on Windows 10 and Xbox One

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Voodoo Vince: Remastered launches today on Windows 10 and Xbox One “13 years, 6 month and 25 days. That’s how much time has passed since Voodoo Vince first appeared on the original Xbox in September of 2003. The half-life of a game is unbelievably short. A game doesn’t get much time before it’s relegated to the past. The march of technology and player demographics weren’t on our side in 2003. Voodoo Vince was quickly lost in the shuffle and seemed like it would remain in obscurity. This revival of Vince would have been far less likely without the encouragement of Phil Spencer and the amazing team over at ID@Xbox. ID@Xbox made it possible for a small team to publish a game independently. Phil reminded me of what a game can mean to players when he described playing Voodoo Vince with [ more… ]

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A week with Microsoft Edge: How to organize the web

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A week with Microsoft Edge: How to organize the web Yesterday, we introduced you to a series of blog posts we’re publishing throughout this week about Microsoft Edge. Each day we’ll be sharing a new video and blog post to introduce you to the best of Microsoft Edge. Today, we’re showing you the Microsoft Edge features that can help you keep the web organized. We all spend a lot of time browsing the web, and it’s more important than ever to have the tools you need to stay organized, productive, and focused on the web. With the Windows 10 Creators Update, we’ve added new features to make this easier than ever – including the new tab preview bar and a simple way to set your tabs aside. You can catch up on yesterday’s blog post about getting started with Microsoft [ more… ]