Tag Archives: Hardware

Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics

July 24, 2012   News
With Windows 8 we set out to enable all applications to have the beautiful and high-performance graphics enabled by modern graphics hardware.  This work builds on the well-established foundations of DirectX graphics, which have been providing an increasing breadth of APIs and capabilities. In Windows 7, we expanded the capabilities of ...
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Microsoft’s Hardware Partners Need Not Worry

June 30, 2012   News
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesA lot of faux indignation has been made by the tech media on behalf of Microsoft’s hardware partners after their Surface announcement almost two weeks ago. Just in case you missed it, Microsoft, historically known for its software and services, has ...
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Touch hardware and Windows 8

March 31, 2012   News
Last September we blogged about experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware, introducing the story of touchscreen hardware, how it is evolving, and what we expect Windows 8 will bring to the ecosystem of touch. We discussed how our engineering efforts (software and hardware) are driven by key user ...
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Windows 8 Could Cause More Hardware Based Attacks

December 31, 2011   News
Microsoft are looking to improve security in Windows 8 greatly and we’ve already seen evidence of this with a new bootloader that prevents harmful software like rootkits from ever executing on your system. There’s several improvements in the BIOS security, however it has come under fire recently. Some people have ...
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