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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Is Official and Starts at $2,599
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Yesterday the Surface Laptop Ultra was a spec sheet Microsoft had confirmed nothing about. Today Microsoft put the machine on a stage in San Francisco and confirmed nearly all of it, along with the one number the leak never had. The entry configuration costs $2,599.
Microsoft calls this its first "builder class" PC, built for developers and AI researchers rather than for people who want a nice Windows laptop. At $2,599 to start, it sits well outside normal Surface territory. You do not buy this one because your old laptop got slow.
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Windows Search Is Becoming a Chatbot, a Year After Microsoft Promised Less Copilot
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Type a file name into Windows search and you get web results. Type an app name and you wait. Microsoft knows, and the fix it showed today is to turn the Search Menu into something you talk to.
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's executive vice president of Windows and Devices, demoed the rebuilt Search Menu on stage in San Francisco. It's a chatbot-style box that takes short typed commands and then does things: toggling settings, pulling up apps and files, or holding a conversation with the Copilot app without you opening Copilot at all. It arrives this fall.
Nearly Every Surface Laptop Ultra Spec Just Leaked
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Rumors,
Microsoft goes on stage tomorrow for a laptop whose spec sheet is already sitting on the internet. Most of it, anyway. The one number that decides whether any of it matters, the price, is still missing.
Windows Central's Zac Bowden has published what he describes as nearly all the remaining details on the Surface Laptop Ultra, sourced from people familiar with Microsoft's plans. Every figure below comes from that reporting, not from Microsoft. What Microsoft has actually confirmed is the event: October 7, in San Francisco, livestreamed, with Windows, Surface and Nvidia's RTX Spark on the agenda. It has not put its name to a single core count, memory tier or brightness number.
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Xbox Elite Series 3 Controller Specs Leaked Out of Microsoft’s Own Design Lab
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Microsoft, Rumors, Video Games,
Microsoft has not announced an Xbox Elite Series 3. Its own Design Lab appears to have described one anyway, down to the thumbstick options.
A Reddit user says they got into the backend of Spectrum Customizer, the configuration system that powers Xbox Design Lab, and pulled out configuration records and 3D component models for a controller carried internally under the codename Edessa. Digital Foundry reported the find. The files are no longer reachable, and Microsoft has confirmed none of what follows.
Xbox Finally Has a Platinum Trophy, and It’s Called a Mythic Achievement
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Unlock every achievement in an Xbox game and nothing much happened. Your Gamerscore went up, the list showed complete, and that was the ceremony. PlayStation has handed out a platinum trophy for the same work for years. On September 29, Microsoft announced its answer, the Mythic Achievement.
The bar is every original achievement in a game. Clear them all and the game goes Mythic. Achievements added later by DLC or a title update don't count against you, and they can't take it back. "It's yours to keep," senior product manager Alex Charters said.
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The Xbox Disaster Microsoft Never Recovered From (Video)
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Microsoft spent a decade building Xbox into the console everyone's friends owned, then burned it down in about an hour. On May 21, 2013, Don Mattrick walked onto a stage in a white tent on Microsoft's Redmond campus and spent the first 30 minutes of the Xbox One reveal talking about TV. When a reporter asked what people without reliable internet were supposed to do with a console that phoned home every 24 hours, he told them to buy an Xbox 360. Xbox still hasn't recovered, and I think the reason has less to do with that stage than with what players were doing at home.
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Xbox Disc to Digital Is Live for Insiders, and Your Series S Can’t Play Along
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There is a shelf in a lot of living rooms that has turned into a problem. Fifty Xbox games, maybe two hundred, and a growing suspicion that the next console you buy won't have anywhere to put them. Microsoft's answer started reaching Xbox Insiders on Monday, and the pitch is refreshingly boring. Put the disc in, launch the game, keep the digital copy.
Xbox announced the feature on its blog on August 26 and filled in details during a Gamescom livestream with Jason Ronald. Insert a supported disc into an Xbox One or Xbox Series X, start the game, and you claim a digital entitlement tied to that disc. The disc keeps working exactly as it always has. You just stop needing it in the tray.
Xbox Says Project Helix Is a ‘Family of Devices.’ The Rest Is Still a Guess.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Microsoft, Video Games,
Every console generation starts with a word you're supposed to read a lot into. This time the word is "family."
Speaking to the BBC at gamescom, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said the company has "been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix, and we'll share more soon." Project Helix is the code name for whatever follows the Series X and Series S. Sharma didn't say how many devices are in that family, what any of them are, or when you could buy one.
The Translucent Green Xbox Series X25 Is $899, and Pre-Orders Open Thursday Morning
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If you were a kid in 2001 and you ever saw one of the see-through green Xbox consoles, you know why this thing exists. Microsoft confirmed the details for the Xbox Series X25 during its gamescom broadcast on Wednesday: translucent OG green shell, guts visible through the case, every unit individually numbered with its own engraving.
It costs $899.99 in the US (£759.99 in the UK) and launches November 13, 2026, right up against the 25th anniversary of the original Xbox. Pre-orders open Thursday, August 27 at 7 a.m. Pacific / 10 a.m. Eastern on the Xbox site and at participating retailers, limited to one per customer. Some longtime Xbox customers got emailed early access on Wednesday.
The Translucent Green Xbox Series X25 Will Be the Most Expensive Console Microsoft Has Ever Sold
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The Xbox Series X25 is the best-looking console Microsoft has made in years. Translucent OG Green shell, green-lit power button, a straight callback to the 2001 Xbox that started all of this. When it was revealed at June's Xbox Games Showcase, the reaction was close to universally warm.
Then the price leaked. If the numbers hold, the 25th anniversary Xbox will be the most expensive home console Microsoft has ever sold, and it is not faster than the one below it.