Shroud’s blunt line — “If Microsoft did Mixer today they would be hot sh-- — it just came too early” — landed like a challenge, not a eulogy, and it’s the perfect framing for a very modern gaming-business thought experiment: could Microsoft’s failed Mixer product have succeeded if launched and...
Dayforce’s move to embed Microsoft’s Copilot tooling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into its single‑platform Human Capital Management (HCM) system marks a decisive inflection point for how HR, payroll, and operations teams will use agent-driven automation — promising tighter Microsoft...
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Steven Spielberg nearly directed a Call of Duty movie — and the story of how that almost-happened illuminates a larger, unavoidable tension at the intersection of blockbuster Hollywood and corporate-owned videogame IP: creative auteurs want the freedom to shape tone and audience, while...
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The last Windows Weekly episode landed like a mixtape of outrage, optimism, and technical quibbling — a brisk tour through Microsoft’s week that touched on a campus lockdown, Windows 11 change-management headaches, Microsoft 365 and OneNote transitions, a sweep of AI news, several...
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As the latest Patch Tuesday rolls out across the Windows ecosystem, a sense of transformation hangs thick in the air—a feeling that’s not only shaped by new updates but also by an era-defining shift in PC usage, AI integration, and the restless, sometimes fractious, loyalty of the Windows and...
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Call of Duty: WWII, a World War II-themed first-person shooter released in 2017, enjoyed a renaissance in player numbers this July as it landed on PC Game Pass for the first time, drawing in a vast new wave of players lured by nostalgia and the allure of a “new” classic. But in what is now a...
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In a move that has electrified both retro gaming enthusiasts and fans of modern subscription services, Xbox has announced the launch of "Retro Classics" for all Xbox Game Pass subscribers. This initiative brings back more than 50 legendary Activision games—some of which haven't been accessible...
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I spent a good chunk of the recent long weekend plowing through Call of Duty—not solely because the adrenaline of narrowly escaping digital demise is preferable to, say, mowing the lawn, but because there's never a dull moment in this ever-morphing, sometimes confounding shooter universe. Yet...
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If the technology world were a blockbuster movie, Bill Gates would be both the star and the director. Even after stepping back from Microsoft's daily grind, his fingerprints are all over the innovations steering the company into uncharted territories. From artificial intelligence (AI)...
When the name Bill Gates comes up, the monolithic world of Microsoft seems to flash before our eyes—those iconic Windows boot sounds, the blue screens of death during your college project, and now, the AI-powered applications you likely use daily. Gates’s story isn’t just one of revolutionary...
The tech world has its eyes firmly glued to Microsoft as the fiscal year gains momentum with the impending Q2 2025 earnings report. This isn't just another line item in the calendar for investors; it's the key moment where we interrogate the tech colossus' AI strategy, cloud dominance, and...
Xbox Games Showcase 2024: What to Expect
The highly anticipated Xbox Games Showcase is set to take place on June 9, 2024. This year's event promises to be one of the most exciting yet, featuring a wealth of new game announcements, updates, and in-depth looks at upcoming titles from Xbox Game...
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Hello everyone and Happy New Year,
I am here cause I want to ask you for any solutions for my problem.
I am trying to install GTA EFLC in Windows 8 (Officially Activated) but I get the following message:
Starting Installation via Autorun.exe: Unsupported 16-bit Application. The Program or...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is coming Nov. 8, 2011, Kotaku has learned, delivering with it mammoth battles that engulf a dozen cities around the world including New York, Paris and London.
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I'm Furious as to why Game company's like EA and Activision are allowed to release Game patches that are 2.5GB every month and force us to download them. I dunno why this BFBC2 patch is huuuuge when it contains half a dozen patches. It doesn't help with Australia having the rubishest internet in...
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My laptop originally was loaded Vista Home Premium, I took advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium (which incidentally cost me apx £22 for shipping charges)...
Details: HP Pavillion DV72110sa, AMD Turion X2 Dual Core 2.20GHZ (64 bit), 4 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 4530 512MB...
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Activision recently revealed that the ultra-popular Call of Duty franchise has made more...
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CoD4 single player works great (in fact, I just played a mission), but multiplayer does not. It just begins to load and then crashes, no warning message, nothing. The next time I boot it up, it prompts me to use safe mode, which doesn't work.
I've heard that it was just Windows 7 (64), so I...
ive tried the normal fix of creating the directory and it still happens
x:\users\UrProfile\Local Settings\Application Data\Activision\players\profiles
is the vista file path
in win 7 its
x:\users\UrProfiles\Application Data\local\Activision\players\profiles\profilename\
ive created the...