Microsoft is hit with a lawsuit from residents alleging noise, light, and dust pollution at its new AI data center.

The Fallout: New Vegas developer has not escaped Microsoft's Xbox layoffs unscathed.

StatCounter's June 2026 data shows Windows made up 56.55% of global desktop OS usage, dropping Microsoft's share below 60% for the first time in years

Microsoft launched new Cloud Rebuild tool to let you download Windows and relevant drivers straight from its servers.

The recovery process can be a major pain, and sometimes youre still quite out of luck if you dont already have a drive on standby. But Microsoft has announced that its introducing what it calls Cloud rebuild, which is described […] The post Microsoft Tests Cloud Rebuild To Restore Windows 11 Without Drives appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

While the use of Windows' GDID to catch Scattered Spider hacking group member Peter Stokes is unusual, that device identifier is only one bit of telemetry that can be used to fingerprint a user across the wider Internet these days.

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Microsoft has announced that its next-generation Surface Pro and Surface Laptop will be arriving in Malaysia later this month

Baru-baru ini, program Window Insider telah menerima satu kemaskini ciri-ciri baharu untuk diuji, dan antaranya ialah ciri Cloud Rebuild, yang membolehkan pengguna untuk set semula sistem operasi Windows 11 ke versi yang paling stabil, walaupun sistem operasi asal tidak berfungsi secara yang sepatutnya

Reports suggest the issue can cause the file to grow beyond 500GB, significantly reducing the amount of free space on affected drives. The bug was first highlighted by Windows Latest, […] The post Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Can Eat Up Hundred GBs Of Storage appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Microsoft sedia melakukan pembuangan sejumlah pekerja, dan tidak setakat itu, kini mereka turut melakukan beberapa langkah dalam menjimatkan kos

Doom developer id Software is reportedly laying off about half its staff as part of Microsoft's broader Xbox cuts

Microsoft will turn on Windows settings backup and restore by default for eligible Windows 11 business devices outside the EU, starting with Windows 11 26H2

Windows 11 reinstallations will be available via the cloud, which includes appropriate drivers and doesn't require a USB drive.

A criminal complaint against alleged Scattered Spider member Peter Stokes revealed that Microsoft can associate Windows activity with a persistent "Global Device ID," which investigators used to link his PC to online activity connected to a hack

Sony's WF-1000 and WH-1000 lineups also have the needed hardware, and someone came up with the idea of utilizing those sensors for in-game controls. Developer Nicholas Slattery started a project called Sony Head Tracker, and it's already compatible with hundreds of PC games, including Microsoft Flight Simulator and Assetto Corsa

LG monitors apparently auto-install an app on your PC when you first connect them, all thanks to the Microsoft Store.

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Your copy-pasting experience in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge is getting a much-needed boost.

GitHub is offering a limited run of 1,000 CD-ROM copies of public repositories as a pro-physical-media jab at Sony's plan to stop producing PlayStation game discs in 2028. Tom's Hardware reports: The coding and collaboration platform, owned by Microsoft, states that "In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM." Moreover, it appeals to the human side of computing, adding the emotive line "Keep it

Microsofthas announced a massive restructuring that includes laying off 4,800 employees , or about 2.1% of its global workforce

Bukan hanya 3200 kakitangan Xbox dibuang kerja pagi ini kerana mereka adalah antara 4800 yang hilang mata pencarian di bawah usaha penyusunan semula syarikat. Pusingan pengurangan pekerja kali ini mendatangkan impak kepada 2.1% pekerja global Microsoft

Seperti ura-ura yang didengari sejak dua minggu lalu, Xbox telah memulakan proses membuang lebih 3200 pekerja sebagai langkah. penyusunan semula perniagaan permainan video Microsoft

Microsoft is cutting jobs in its commercial business and its Xbox gaming group, where revenue has been shrinking.

Microsoft is laying off about 4,800 employees, including 1,600 from Xbox, as it restructures around AI investments and tries to reset its struggling gaming business

Microsoft is cutting an additional 3,200 jobs beyond those in the gaming division.

Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability

AdGuard VPN is now on the Microsoft Store, giving Windows users a faster install and automatic updates

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Microsoft's gaming division will cut 3,200 jobs throughout FY27 and is spinning out studios but not canceling any games.

Microsoft lays off 4,800 workers, over 30% from Xbox, and sells four studios in a major gaming division reset.

The sweeping layoffs equate to 2.1% of Microsoft's workforce, with 1,600 immediate job losses at Xbox.

Days after Amazon announced a $1 billion forward-deployed engineer program for AI, Microsoft revealsits $2.5 billion alternative.

Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft due to data center noise plaintiffs also mention construction noise and extreme light pollution

User backlash to Microsoft Teams AI tools leads to major shift in policy choices.

USA Today reports on a Facebook post from a Washington state sheriff's office: Four residents of Clallam County, a coastal region west of Seattle along northern Washington's peninsula, lost more than $673,000 in just three days, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office... The smallest amount lost was $3,500, which someone purchased in Apple gift cards for a scammer posing as an employee with Microsoft technical support, the sheriff's office wrote

It was more than two years ago that TypeScript's creator Anders Hejlsberg announced plans to rewrite its compiler in Go. This week Microsoft announced its first Go-based release candidate for TypeScript 7.0, reports InfoWorld: TypeScript 7.0 is often about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0, Microsoft said, thanks to native code speed and shared memory parallelism..

Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new group "assisting clients with AI implementations," reports CNBC: [Microsoft] said Thursday that 6,000 employees will be embedded with clients, in a practice that's become known as forward deployed engineering [or FDE]..

This served as the spark that led to Stokes' eventual arrest in Helsinki, as the prosecutors slowly followed the paper and digital trail laid by the attackers. Microsoft played a key role in the process by providing GDID [Global Device Identifier] data to the FBI to help them apprehend the alleged criminal..

Starting in 2019, lawsuits were brought by dozens of Indian and global firms Amazon against fake shopping sites trading on its name and McDonald's complaining against bogus sites offering franchises. [More than 20 companies filed a complaint, the article notes, including Microsoft.] In December, an Indian court blocked more than 1,100 such websites

Petet Stokes was arrested in Finland and extradited to the U.S. over alleged ties to the Scattered Spider group, with Microsoft helping in the investigation

Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales

Microsoft plans a broad post-quantum migration by 2029 as concerns over future decryption risks increase globally.

In addition, researchers have developed algorithms to correct errors while the quantum computer operates... Microsoft claimed, which experts dispute, that it made an object made of electrons known as a Majorana particle [which should make fewer errors and be easier to scale up]..

This is what Windows could have become if Microsoft leaned heavily into AI an OS starring Copilot.

A new mandatory compliance report released by Microsoft shows how it declares profits in different European nations to reduce its tax bill.

Jika anda pernah menggunakan komputer riba Chromebook, anda pasti kenal sistem operasi ChromeOS, yang merupakan sistem operasi ringan oleh Google yang dibina menggunakan pelayar web Google Chrome sebagai penggerak sistem operasi tersebut

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The attack abused misconfigured conditional access policies to bypass multi-factor authentication protections.

Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers

Microsoft is the latest tech company to form a business focused on helping customers understand and implement artificial intelligence.

A new Microsoft Teams AI tool promises to help with knowledge gaps, but says it will have to listen and watch to all your meetings first.

Project Helix will reportedly not feature a disc drive, as sources claim Xbox is testing a disc-to-digital feature that will digitize a user's game library.

Is Microsoft planning to do away with physical game discs like Sony is?

Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc.

Is PlayStation about to make the same mistake Microsoft made with Xbox One?

You can now finally run Linux containers in Windows without third-party tools.

Want Notepad to be like it was in the Windows XP era except even leaner? TinyRetroPad is here.

Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait

'But it's Windows. You run the risk that any or every monthly update will break something': Microsoft fires shots at MacBook Neo, but the internet fires back.

It seems like Microsoft continues its series of layoffs, with the last one being in July 2025, when the company cut around 4% of its entire workforce

Siri tablet dan komputer riba Microsoft Surface Go dan Surface Laptop Go diperkenalkan sebagai siri komputer mudah-alih yang mampu milik untuk mereka yang tidak mampu membeli siri Microsoft Surface Pro dan Surface Laptop

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Microsoft akan melakukan satu lagi pusingan pembuangan tenaga kerja dengan kali ini sebanyak 2.5% akan dihentikan di bawah langkah mengurangkan kos menurut laporan Business Insider

Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software

Microsoft is further pruning its Surface line, with the Surface Laptop Go 3 and Surface Go 4 going out of stock without clear follow-ups.

Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications

Microsoft says the 119 malicious extensions were downloaded a total of 2.6 million times since 2021.

Rolling back the years and the bloat for veteran text editor

Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf: Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1 to prevent it from running on Digital Research's competing DR DOS operating system.This code triggered fake, alarming error messages to convince developers that DR DOS was unstable..

Better bot blocking is coming to Microsoft Teams to keep your meetings safe.

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Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in

changes their roles, rather than eliminating them. Microsoft, one of the companies backing the organization, said it had already found a promising model: cross-training its entry-level lawyers in different parts of the organization and equipping them with A.I

Court says Redmond can file briefs, take part in hearings amid challenge to the current path Big Tech's data spice uses to legally flow

Windows 11's File Explorer is finally getting a speed improvement via Microsoft's latest update, but I can only hope a future update doesn't undo it.

In the Azure Edition, of course