MS Ignite is Microsoft’s annual conference for developers and IT pros, and the company has announced that this year’s version will take place October 12 – 14, and it’ll be the company’s first in-person conference since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
There may be some news in October for folks who aren’t developers or IT professionals though. Rumor has it that the company will use the event to debut some next-gen Surface products almost exactly ten years after launching the first Surface tablet.
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
Microsoft will reportedly launch new Surface hardware during the MS Ignite event in October to mark the 10th-anniversary of the first Surface tablet. https://t.co/d9yiJozArv
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) July 27, 2022
Google previews new features coming to Chrome OS in the next few months, including video editing in Google Photos, PDF editing in the Gallery app, and a LumaFusion multitrack video editor for more professional movie making. https://t.co/KS3MiqSKlR
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) July 27, 2022
It keeps getting pushed back… Because while nobody likes third party cookies, nobody’s particularly fond of Google’s alternatives either. https://t.co/LRPvHU3TPf
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) July 27, 2022
Google Play has announced a bunch of policy changes that will take effect later this year, prohibiting unexpected interstitial ads, requiring FLAG_SECURE to be respected, restricting which apps can use VPNService, and more. Here’s a summary:
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) July 27, 2022
Spotify stops manufacturing Car Thing, the company’s accessory designed to make it easier to stream music from the service in an automobile, just five months after giving it a wide launch. Existing devices should continue working (for now). https://t.co/77wNi4oPny
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) July 27, 2022
big stack of hacks = working orientation sensor on the @shiftphones SHIFT6mq with #Linux mainline #linuxmobile
(video shows orientation working on a 6mq, the phone rotates :o)
this relies on some impressive hacks and ONLY works because there is no secureboot. wont work on op6! pic.twitter.com/8dXulT3NGY
— caleb (@calebccff) July 26, 2022
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No way they do another Surface Go x86 6-hour PC. It will either be a 7c gen 3 or any of the 8c’s with at least a 10 hour battery.
Going with any current ARM SoC sounds like an overall downgrade.
If Microsoft is going to announce a refresh of the Surface Go lineup, I’m struggling to think of what CPUs they will plan on using.
Intel hasn’t released their 12th gen Alder Lake-M chips yet, which is what I would assume they would use. If I’m not mistaken, Intel hasn’t released any Alder Lake chips below 9W TDP yet.
I wonder if they’re going to go all ARM powered. That would be fantastic.
Fantastic, sure, if you’re okay with endorsing locking people into windows.
I wonder if MS will show a new Surface Go. Been thinking of upgrading my Surface Go 1 LTE.
Maybe they’ll announce one with a custom AMD APU that they didn’t dump midway through (at least Valve picked that one up for the Steam Deck).
A custom AMD APU might be nice.
The Qualcomm ARM CPUs on Windows notebooks so far have been disappointing. At least Apple has shown ARM does have potential assuming non-Apple ARM vendors catch up.