My recent opportunity to build a new main desktop has resulted in me learning about a new (to me) style of SSD called the M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. Since my new PC build’s motherboard supports this form factor of SSD drives, I decided to test its speed compared to standard SATA 3 SSD. The difference is huge on the scale of moving from a spinning hard drive to SSD many years ago.
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In the second month of having designated channels for the flighting of Windows 10 test builds for the Windows Insiders Program, we are seeing a lot of consistency in the process for the Developer, Beta, and Release Preview channels. Here is a summary of the last month worth of updates.
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Wow – twenty-five years have gone by in this unique journey across the web for this site in all its iterations over the years. It will forever be connected to the release of Windows 95 back in August of 1995.
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There is plenty of news across our three-fold spectrum for this episode. I wrap up details about the PC build I recently completed and provide some schedule updates for my continued diaconate formation as we prepare for year two. In tech, new builds across the board for Windows and Edge Insiders, headlines from Microsoft, Apple (and Epic Games & WordPress), and Google among many others. In gaming news, there has been a run on joysticks and yokes thanks to the successful release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, and confirmation of the Xbox Series S console thanks to a controller leak. In space there is news from NASA, ULA, and SpaceX as they continue to launch rockets despite the pandemic impacting operations. I close with an upcoming drama from Netflix on the human toll during a manned mission to Mars and Amazon’s potential plan to take over empty stores at malls to help with product distribution.
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Microsoft’s portal for web extensions in their new Edge browser, which is based on the open source Chromium project, has grown quite a bit since Edge first started being tested. We take a walk through the add-ons site to see where it stands today.
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