Microsoft 'will be enabling VBS on most new PCs over this next year' and that can tank PC gaming performance by around 25%.
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Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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They would be better breaking up what valued assets they still have and put them out to auction for the competition.
There is no more financial gain for them on any trajectory in the entertainment space.
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I understand its a new security system for malware etc but that's a significant drop. Best wait and test yourselfs first as 25% seems unreasonable
Crazy how big of a resource hog security processes can be. Sounds like most will just want to disable the VBS if they buy one of those systems
This won't look good on Microsoft part. Hopefully they can get it fixed
You can just disable VBS & SVM in your BIOS. This is for Ryzen CPUs but it should also work with Intel: https://howtodoninja.com/ho... Also go into your services and find anything with Hyper-V and just set them all to disabled.