Some Windows 11 updates might be slower in the future but it's for a good reason

A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s

Want Windows 11's menus and apps to just work faster? Microsoft could be moving a key piece of the puzzle into place

Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8 per cent of the worlds work...

Rosie Campbell, a former AI safety researcher at OpenAI, testified that the company became more product-focused during her time there and moved away from the long-term safety work that had initially drawn her in. She said both long-term AI safety teams were eventually eliminated, and that she supported Altman's reinstatement only because she feared OpenAI might otherwise collapse into Microsoft: "It was my understanding at the time that the best way for OpenAI to not disintegrate and fall about would be for Sam to return." Still, Campbell's testimony wasn't entirely favorable to Musk

Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAIbut wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.

joshuark shares a report from Linux Magazine: Microsoft has issued a warning that a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 has been found in the Linux kernel

A LinkedIn user in the EU is challenging Microsoft's refusal to provide a full list of profile visitors under GDPR Article 15, arguing that the data should be available for free because LinkedIn processes it and sells a more complete version to Premium users

An espionage campaign was concealed behind a ransomware attack by a commercial actor

Are budget Windows 11 laptops a better bet than the MacBook Neo? A new report suggests that, but skeptics aren't happy with it at all

Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $34.97 through May 17 at 11:59 p.m

Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: Security researcher Tom Joran Sonstebyseter Ronning has found that Microsoft Edge stores passwords in plaintext in RAM

Jim Cramer says the Club still owns Microsoft

Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft

A known RAT was given new capabilities in order to exfiltrate 2FA codes and more

Microsoft is winding down Xbox Copilot on mobile and ending development of Copilot on console, reversing plans to bring the gaming-focused AI assistant to current-generation Xbox consoles this year

Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management

Fed up with File Explorer running sluggishly in Windows 11? Microsoft's doing 'foundational' work to fully fix it

Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan

Xbox is no longer developing Copilot for consoles

Last year, Microsoft decided that it wanted to bring its Copilot AI assistant into the gaming space

A sweeping Pentagon push to integrate AI into military systems includes nearly every major tech player except Anthropic, exposing a growing divide over how far such technology should go

Microsoft's study says that it's not just enough to give employees access to AI tools for them to make the most of it

Microsoft has officially scrapped development of its Xbox Copilot AI , marking a significant shift in its gaming strategy under new leadership

Ciri Xbox Copilot yang boleh membantu pemain menyelesaikan masalah dalam permainan diperlihatkan untuk PC dan Xbox tahun lalu. Ia adalah usaha gigih Microsoft untuk memperkenalkan pelbagai ciri kecerdasan buatan (AI) Copilot pada produk keluaran mereka

The AI assistant is no longer coming to consoles and will be removed from the Xbox mobile app.

New agreements between the companies and the Commerce department build on Biden-era pacts.

Both remakes were already released on Steam and the macOS App Store.

The White House is also considering a new AI working group that would explore potential oversight and vet models before release, CNBC confirmed.

The goal is to steal Microsoft credentials and bypass MFA, the company says

Asha Sharma, the former Instacart and Meta executive who took over Xbox at Microsoft, said the unit doesn't spend enough time with developers and players.

It's another stacked lineup, with Mixtape also among the games joining Microsoft's subscription service

Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: On April 15, 2026, a Microsoft employee made a change to Visual Studio Code and pushed it within 8 hours without review, notification, or documentation

Microsoft warns that some consumers 'might experience one additional restart during installation' of Windows 11 updates

VS Code was adding 'Co-authored-by: Copilot' freely, even when the assistant wasn't used and AI chat features were disabled

A cybersecurity researcher claims that Microsoft Edge's password manager is storing users' login credentials in plain text.

OpenAI and Anthropic, which had existing evaluation partnerships with the center dating to 2024, renegotiated their deals to align with priorities in Trump's AI Action Plan

The Commerce Department will use the access to conduct security evaluations.

Microsoft's latest report says even more big changes are coming to AI in the workplace

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you? Opinion It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users

Haswells had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s again showing that cloud computing isnt always a seamless and easy choice.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A new, bipartisan bill introduced (PDF) by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world -- including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft -- would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in "AI literacy," something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code.

I've had my doubts about Microsoft's campaign to fix Windows 11 this year, but they're slowly melting away

The current iteration of Widget interface in Windows 11 is a visual mess - Microsoft is aiming to improve the UI with significantly quieter behavior and design in its latest preview build.

Microsoft has started rolling out Xbox Mode - formerly called Xbox Full Screen Experience - for Windows 11 PCs, across the coming weeks

Microsoft baru-baru ini telah memperkenalkan kemaskini baru untuk konsol PC mudah-alih ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X yang memperlihatkan ciri-ciri tambahan yang meningkatkan mutu pengalaman gaming pada konsol tersebut

Ia cukup pantas untuk permainan “modem” seperti Doom, Quake, Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 dan Commandos. Hampir tiga dekad sudah berlalu dan kini dokumen rasmi Microsoft menyarankan memori 32GB RAM untuk […]

A quick scroll through the homepage reveals the community has already gotten to work. Current creations include Goku, Patrick Star, Microsoft's long-retired Clippy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and naturally a goblin

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - whats wrong at Redmond? kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft.

Pretty much no games recommend more than 16GB of RAM, even in the unoptimized era we're living in right now. Only a few titles at their highest presets say 32GB is ideal, so Microsoft claiming that 32GB is the future-proof standard isn't exactly wrong

A new Microsoft blog post recommended 32GB of RAM for serious gamers, but after user backlash, it's gone again

Upgrade a PC affordably with this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license.

Would AI-generated Derby predictions be any better in 2026? This year's winner was 24-to-1 longshot "Golden Tempo" though a lot of oddsmakers had favored a horse named Further Ado (which ultimately only finished 11th). So when USA Today prompted Microsoft Copilot for its own picks for the Kentucky Derby, Copilot also went with Further Ado

It's like Microsoft's Clippy, but useful.

Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available

The Netherlands has launched a self-hosted Git platform to gain control over code infrastructure, reduce reliance on external providers, and support collaboration

Save on Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business with this lifetime license deal, now $99.97 (reg

Microsoft is rolling out Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs, bringing a full-screen Xbox PC app interface similar to Steam's Big Picture Mode

Op-ed: Valve has made a dent in Windows' gaming share, but can it keep going?

The Pentagon says it has reached deals with seven AI companies -- SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection AI, Microsoft, and AWS -- to deploy their tools on classified Defense Department networks

Microsoft has officially announced that it's started to roll out Xbox Mode to Windows 11 "in select markets"

Microsoft has seen attackers changing tactics to get around security tools, and they keep adapting even when disrupted

Microsoft isn't resting on its laurels with Windows 11 gaming optimization, with Xbox Mode now being rolled out to desktop PC users

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, a 77% increase over last year's record $410 billion

Xbox Mode replaces the standard Windows desktop with an Xbox-style interface designed for gamepad navigation

They join Google, OpenAI and xAI.

Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow Microsoft is following through on its promise to prioritize Windows stability with its April 30 non-security update

In 2025 Microsoft set out five goals for itself in Europe now its EMEA heads say the company is on track for good progress

Xbox mode brings a console-like interface to Windows 11.

Give your PC a fresh set of tools with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows lifetime license.

OpenAI's attorney, William Savitt, cross-examined Musk in the morning. He asked Musk about the capped nature of Microsoft's investments in OpenAI, his involvement in negotiations about the company's structure, and whether he knew about the OpenAI nonprofit's recent initiatives

Microsoft mula melancarkan Xbox Mode kepada pengguna Windows 11 ke beberapa lagi pasaran dengan ia disokong pada PC desktop, komputer riba dan konsol mudah alih

Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google's decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as the Prompt API, is already being tested in Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reported better-than-expected first-quarter cloud results, signaling an acceleration of AI demand

The option is part of a collection of updates Microsoft is making to consoles and the Xbox PC app.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs