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Windows Central says Microsoft's $2,599-and-up Surface Laptop Ultra has only okay battery life and a Mini LED panel short of class-leading. The reviewer praises the haptic trackpad but lists the absence of Copilot+ features at launch as a reason to avoid it.
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Reviewers of NVIDIA's RTX Spark may publish chip results now but not laptop-specific verdicts before October 16, Windows Central reports. GPU performance varies by laptop, it says, so early scores belong to the machines tested.
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has put Series X|S consoles back at the core of the business, telling staff the old Game Pass strategy sent Xbox into 'freefall'. For studios that makes Series X|S the safe target, while Helix, the next generation, is still a plan without a date.
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Microsoft is shipping its new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop without the Copilot+ PC name, though their 80 TOPS NPUs double the label's 40 TOPS requirement. Buyers who shopped by the badge now have to check NPU, memory and storage specs themselves.
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Microsoft has stopped calling new PCs Copilot+ even when they clear the old bar of a 40 TOPS NPU and 16GB of RAM, Surface CVP Brett Ostrum said. Buying specs that used the name as shorthand for that hardware now have to state the NPU and memory figures themselves.
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Microsoft made Copilot a Microsoft 365 workspace with three new experiences, Home, Code and Autopilot, while keeping its assistants inside Word and Excel. Admins now train staff on two entry points and have to decide who may point Code's no-code apps at live business data.
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Microsoft's latest Xbox restructure is mostly a change of which publisher owns which franchise. The teams involved land in four different places, depending on whether a home was found for the games, the people, both or neither.
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