Microsoft Weekly: Big Start menu upgrade and a new era of PC
This week's news recap is here, with Microsoft teasing a new era of PCs, Qualcomm announcing new chips for $300 Windows laptops, Windows 11 getting a big Start menu upgrade, gaming…
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Apple raises MacBook and iPad prices as memory costs surge
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Microsoft makes company developer accounts free for the Microsoft Store
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Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them
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