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Submission + - Is Microsoft planning a Freelancer MMO reboot?

An anonymous reader writes: An apparently internal early-days video of a stress test of a not-yet-seen space MMO called "Age of Ascent". Whilst I've never heard of the company making the game, what's interesting is that a google search shows a (now pulled) page titled "Welcome to the Microsoft Internal Beta", and mentions a "world record attempt".

The guy in the video says "6 million messages per second at 1% capacity" at one point, there are "Powered by Windows Azure" logos everywhere, and the twitter feed (visible at the end of the clip) is still up, reading 5,000 concurrent players. In realtime. And with direct piloting.

Anyone know anything?

Comment Re:Oh (Score 1) 474

Didn't Apple Computer, Inc only start making PCs in 2006? Before that they were making PowerPC based computers and prior to 1995 Motorola based computers. With the general definition of the PC market being something you can install Windows/DOS on or WinTel compatible; the IBM compatible bit being dropped some time ago. Though Apple Computer, Inc ceased to exist in 2007 when it became Apple Inc.

Comment Re:Dear Nvidia... (Score 1) 111

That's a trap. The mobo comes with integrated intel, yes. But in most cases the end user also has a discrete card. You can guess which one is actually used.

Depends if its WebGL in a browser nvidia locks you to intel: Option to select the preferred graphics processor is greyed out for IE, Chrome, and Firefox. and https://www.scirra.com/blog/ashley/7/nvidia-hobbles-webgl-performance-on-laptops

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 398

having the start button actually does help in one use case, having a windows rdp session. Ever try to remote manage a windows 2012 server via remote desktop without being full screen? It is f-ing hard trying to hit the start corner. I'm happy that they added the start button back even if it only launches the start screen instead of old style menu.

Click application icon top right of the window (the one that gives you drop down of move, restore, close etc)

Then choose Remote Commands, this gives you the options;

  • App Commands
  • Charms
  • Switch Apps
  • Start

Bottom one is what you want.

Submission + - Apple iPhone 5S TouchID broken (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: Chaos Computer Club has claimed that they have managed to break Apple's TouchID using everyday material and methods available on the web. Explaining their method on their website, the CCC hackers have claimed that all they did was photograph a fingerprint from a glass surface, ramped up the resolution of the photographed fingerprint, inverted and printed it using thick toner settings, smeared pink latex milk or white woodglue onto the pattern, lifted the latex sheet, moistened it a little and then placed it on the iPhone 5S’ fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone.

Submission + - Nintendo: 160,000 Wii Us sold globally in three months (gamesindustry.biz)

rescendent writes: Nintendo's Wii U console sold only 160,000 units worldwide during the past three months, with the company blaming a lack of first-party releases for the poor performance. Software sales for the system were just 1.3 million units.

During the period Nintendo sold 90,000 Wii U consoles in Japan, 60,000 in the US and only 10,000 in Europe and Australia.

Submission + - Microsoft Office Mobile finally available for Android (bgr.com)

zacharye writes: Microsoft released Office Mobile for the iPhone last month and as the days and weeks passed, many began to wonder when Microsoft’s popular productivity software would finally arrive on Android. The answer: today. Microsoft on Wednesday announced the immediate availability of Office Mobile for Android, which is available at no additional cost for Office 365 subscribers. Office Mobile for Android offers an experience that is very similar to the iPhone app, with Word, Excel and PowerPoint document creation and basic editing on board. The experience is smooth, albeit limited, and the interface is extremely clean, just as we have come to expect from Microsoft apps. Office Mobile for Android is available for download immediately in the Google Play store...

Submission + - WebGL, SPDY/3, New Dev Tools Confirmed For IE11 In Win 8.1 1

rescendent writes: Microsoft News.com reports: Microsoft released Windows Server (“Blue”) to MSDN subscribers today, ahead of the BUILD conference later this week in San Francisco. The build provides us a number of clues as to what we will see in the official Windows 8.1 (Blue) preview. The server build number is 9341, the windows 8.1 preview build will be: 6.3.9431.winmain_bluemp.130615-1214. IE11 scores 351/500 + 2 bonus point, and 25/25 for WebGL. Since this is a server build, the score may be a little higher than IE11 on Win 8.1, but this confirms WebGL for IE11.

IE11 WebGL Conformance Test Results: 14,748 of 20,509 tests pass (71.9%). Many things seen in the Server 2012 R2 preview will also show up in the Windows 8.1 preview. (Cached copy)

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