That line from a new Microsoft Windows ad, spoken by a confused bystander, will double as a litmus test for the company’s latest attempt to bring its flagship operating system into the era of ...

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Like virtually every major Windows announcement in the last three years, the spate of features that Microsoft announced for the operating system today all revolve around generative AI. In particular, ...

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I just spent $3,000 on a new gaming PC with a high-end AMD CPU and a screaming-fast Nvidia GeForce 5080 GPU. You’d think I’d be able to run the latest AI features in Windows with that, right? And yeah ...

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