Since Intel starting rolling out patches for Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities there have been reports of various reboot issues. After some investigation Intel has found there were problems with the patch implementation.
DICE has been plugging away at a massive update / patch for Battlefield 1. They are calling it the "Winter Update". The Battlefield 1 Winter Update brings with it a bunch of new features, improvements, tweaks, and more. It only comes in at 1.54GB on PC and is now live on all platforms that the game is available on.
The pre-load of Tom Clancy's The Division was made available yesterday and the notes for the 1.1 update have been leaked on Reddit. One of the more interesting fixes include "several lights that did not cast Global Illumination". One of the many things pointed out in the beta was that global illumination seemed scaled back from what we saw in the E3 2013 reveal trailer. We will have to see if these fixes bring those features back.
Microsoft has released its first major update to the Windows 10 operating system. The update is said to bring a major performance boost to the operating system.
Today is the day! Windows 10 is finally here. Microsoft has began rolling out the Windows 10 upgrade for existing users of Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. The upgrade process is being handled by a reservation system that started a little while ago, which let you tell Microsoft that you intended to upgrade. This was done using the Get Windows 10 (GWX) app that has been in your system-tray.
It looks like there is a new codename on the Microsoft roadmap, it is called Redstone. From what we are hearing it will be a large update to Windows 10 expected in 2016. Windows 10, which was codenamed "Threshold" is to be released this summer. In the fall there is going to be a large update to Windows 10, which will still be called Threshold. This will be in addition to smaller and regularly released updated and fixes.
Last week <a href="http://thinkcomputers.wpengine.com/microsoft-confirms-windows-blue/" target="_blank">we had confirmed</a> that Windows Blue will be called Windows 8.1 and would be an update to Windows. We now know this update will be free through the Windows store and will not be a service pack. It seems like Microsoft is finally getting it and offering seamless and free OTA (over the air) updates for their operating system.
