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Microsoft details Windows 8′s power-saving multimedia subsystem, DRM, codec support

Extreme Tech: Fresh off the block from Computex, Microsoft’s engineers at the Building Windows 8 blog have unleashed another blog post. The new details concern Windows 8′s audio/visual playback engines, format support, and feature sets. As Windows 8 MC Steven Sinofsky notes, video playback has changed considerably in the past few years, and Windows 8 is designed to support the shifting models.

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Microsoft OneDrive Is Ditching Windows 7, 8, and 8.1

The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.

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Former Windows chief reveals Microsoft’s reaction to the iPad

Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.

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Microsoft’s Panos Panay discusses the past and future of Surface

In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.

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