Author Archives: Mark Hachman

The Opera browser already includes a sidebar with links to several messaging apps. Now the company has added Twitter support, too, as part of Opera 69.Twitter, like Instagram, Telegram, Facebook Messenger and other messaging apps, will reside in the… Continue reading →

If there’s any lesson that Apple should learn about supporting apps that run on both X86 and ARM, it’s this one: Tell users which apps support which processor, and actively guide them toward the best experience.It sounds obvious. But as Apple na… Continue reading →

If you see a version of Skype quietly disappear from Windows today, don’t be surprised: Microsoft’s finally taking action to clear Windows of some of its redundant software.Microsoft is consolidating its Skype for Windows 10 and its Skype for De… Continue reading →

Acer’s Swift 5 appears to be the first laptop containing Intel’s expected “Tiger Lakeâ€� microprocessors, which is in turn Intel’s first chip to bring its “Xeâ€� graphics to PCs.Acer didn’t formally identify the Swift 3’s microprocesso… Continue reading →

Office 365 is dead. Long live Microsoft 365, the renamed version of Microsoft’s productivity suite that now includes an expanded version of Microsoft Teams designed expressly for consumers. That expanded version of Teams is now live in preview for… Continue reading →

Apple finally dropped its long-awaited bombshell: Apple’s Macs are switching to its own internally-developed ARM silicon, and the transition will begin before the end of the year.Apple made the announcement on Monday, as an unofficial “one more … Continue reading →

Microsoft has thrown in the towel in its fight against Twitch, saying Monday that it will wind down its Mixer livestreaming service and redirect users to Facebook Gaming instead.The death knell will sound on July 22, when the redirect to Facebook Ga… Continue reading →

Opera’s intriguing gaming browser, Opera GX, just became even more interesting, with integrated Discord capabilities and a “Hot Tabs Killerâ€� feature that can automatically kill tabs that begin quietly sucking up gobs and gobs of memory.Opera d… Continue reading →

If you expected Microsoft’s new Chromium-based Edge to start gobbling up memory as Google Chrome seems to do, Microsoft’s Windows 10 May 2020 Update has a surprise in store: The browser’s memory consumption actually seems to go down.Kim Denny,… Continue reading →

Microsoft released improvements to its Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL) in a Windows 10 preview build on Wednesday, with features benefiting newcomers and developers alike. As part of the update, WSL2 can now perform GPU compute functions, includ… Continue reading →