… DirectStorage, Microsoft's technology for speeding up game loading on NVMe SSDs, is also getting support for Zstandard compression, as well as a tool called the "Game Asset Conditional Library." According to Microsoft, that tool enables "improving compression efficiency while simplifying asset cond…
… In another corporate shift, Microsoft's former head of Azure OpenAI and AI Core infrastructure, Scott Van Vliet, is joining Xbox as Chief Technology Officer today. …
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon By Igor Bonifacic May 1, 2026 11:24 am EST You can add Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA to the growing list of tech giants that have decided to give the US Defense Department access to their AI tools. …
… Ronald didn't speak to any specific compute numbers, likely due to the fact Microsoft has yet to finalize the Helix hardware. …
… Meta admitted it was investigating the technology, but said it hadn't shipped anything to users and had not yet made a final decision on whether to use the technology. …
… Apple is rarely the first to new technology, though. …
… It also doesn't need to pay Microsoft a licensing fee to use a bloated Windows 11 . …