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Laurent Giret

Laurent was a Senior News Editor at OnMSFT from 2016 - 2022. His favorite topics to cover include operating systems, desktop and mobile apps, hardware, and gaming.

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DirectX 12 gains support for Variable Rate Shading to unlock performance on modern GPUs

Microsoft has updated its DirectX 12 Graphics API with a new feature that could improve visual quality in games with…

Laurent Giret · March 19, 2019 · 2 min read

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Skype Preview app gets new preview media feature, regular app gets compact list mode

Microsoft has updated its Skype Preview app on the desktop to add previews for photos and files you want to…

Laurent Giret · March 19, 2019 · 1 min read

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Sticky Notes v3.6 ships to Skip Ahead Insiders with images and multi-desktop support

Microsoft has just started testing a major update for its Sticky Notes app on Windows 10 PCs. Windows Insiders on…

Laurent Giret · March 18, 2019 · 1 min read

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New Xbox Live maintenance announced for March 19, Xbox 360 backward compatible games to be impacted

Microsoft announced today that it will perform another Xbox Live maintenance tomorrow, March 19 between 3:00AM ET and 5:00AM ET…

Laurent Giret · March 18, 2019 · 1 min read

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Microsoft Planner integration is coming soon to Microsoft To-Do, better Microsoft Teams integration also in the works

Microsoft To-Do will soon integrate with Planner, Microsoft’s Trello competitor for Office 365 customers. The new integration was mentioned in…

Laurent Giret · March 18, 2019 · 2 min read

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Microsoft launches new Halo Insider Program, discusses crossplay, Xbox Play Anywhere support for Halo: MCC

Microsoft made it official last week that a PC version of Halo: The Master Chief Collection would be released on…

Laurent Giret · March 18, 2019 · 3 min read

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Windows 10 19H1 build 18358 goes live for Fast Ring Insiders, along with new Windows Defender Application Guard extensions for Chrome and Firefox

Microsoft has just released another 19H1 build for Windows Insiders on the Fast Ring today. The 19H1 build 18358 follows…

Laurent Giret · March 15, 2019 · 3 min read

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Groove Music OneDrive streaming service to be retired at the end of the month

If you’re still using Microsoft’s Groove Music app on Windows 10 to stream your personal music stored on OneDrive, Microsoft…

Laurent Giret · March 15, 2019 · 2 min read

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This summer’s No Man’s Sky “Beyond” update will introduce brand new multiplayer experience

Following a disappointing launch back in 2016, No Man’s Sky made quite a come back last year with an Xbox…

Laurent Giret · March 15, 2019 · 2 min read

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Microsoft releases another Windows 10 19H1 build (18351.26) for Slow Ring Insiders

The Windows Insider team is on a roll this week as they have just released another cumulative update for Slow…

Laurent Giret · March 14, 2019 · 1 min read