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12/12 4:45 am | Cisco Stock Hits New All-Time High, 25 Years After the Dotcom Bubble Burst - Slashdot Cisco's stock price touched $80.25 on Wednesday, finally eclipsing its dotcom-era peak of $80.06 set on March 27, 2000 -- when the networking giant briefly surpassed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable company |
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OpenAI sued for allegedly enabling murder-suicide - Star - 12/12 12:32 am Dec 11 (Reuters) - OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, were sued in California state court on Thursday over claimsthat OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT encouraged a mentally ill man to kill his mother and himself |
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Microsoft fights $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences - Star - 11/12 10:42 pm LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Microsoft was on Thursday accused of overcharging thousands of British businesses to use Windows Server software on cloud computing services provided by Amazon, Google and Alibaba, at a pivotal hearing in a 2.1 billion-pound ($2.81 billion) lawsuit |
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Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads - Theregister - 11/12 10:22 pm Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras Legacy Update was already extremely useful if you chose to disembark from Microsoft's upgrade railroad |
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Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life - Theregister - 11/12 8:25 pm Copilot your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection Microsoft analyzed 37.5 million de-identified Copilot conversations from January to September 2025, excluding commercial and educational accounts |
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Microsoft stops breaking Windows 11 instead it just made Phone Link even better with Android apps - Techradar - 11/12 8:07 pm Like to run Android apps on Windows 11 using Phone Link? A new feature is coming that's sure to please |
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Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic join forces to form Agentic AI alliance, according to report organization backed by the Linux Foundation is set to create open source standards for AI agents - Tomshardware - 11/12 7:40 pm The world's leading AI firms are collaborating on a new Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation managed by the Linux Foundation to build open standards around AI agents |
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How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sunk Without a Trace - Wired - 11/12 3:00 pm With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal |
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Kemaskini Baru Windows 11 Memberi Fokus Untuk Pengoptimasian Konsol PC Mudah-Alih - Amanz - 11/12 12:05 am Seperti yang sedia maklum, banyak jenama-jenama pembuat peranti komputer juga telah memperkenalkan konsol PC mudah-alih yang membolehkan pengguna untuk memainkan permainan komputer kegemaran mereka dimana-mana sahaja. Microsoft baru-baru ini memperkenalkan mod Xbox Full Screen Experience yang mana aplikasi Xbox pada sistem operasi Windows 11 boleh diaktfikan tanpa memerlukan pengaktifan ciri Explorer |
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Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple warned over AI outputs by US attorneys general - Star - 11/12 7:41 am WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were among the 13 companies that received a warning from a bipartisan group of state attorneys general, according to a letter from the state leaders, who said their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws |
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Microsoft issues patches for 56 security flaws - all 'important' severity or above - Techradar - 11/12 3:10 am Most are privilege escalation flaws, and one was exploited in the wild as a zero-day |
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Microsoft wont fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say - Theregister - 11/12 1:30 am Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr Security researchers have revealed a .NET security flaw thought to affect a host of enterprise-grade products that they say Microsoft refuses to fix. |
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OpenAI's house of cards seems primed to collapse - Engadget - 11/12 1:00 am Google's stock tanked days later when the AI incorrectly answered a question about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope during a public demo. But it wasn't just Google that wanted a piece of OpenAI, while the search giant sought to compete with it, others including Microsoft and Apple made deals with the company to bring its technology to their products and services, all the promise that AI would eventually revolutionize every facet of the economy |
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Too Much AI Nuisance In Windows 11? This GitHub Script Can Disable Them All - Pokde - 10/12 10:46 pm Microsoft is hell-bent on pushing as much AI into Windows 11 as possible, but it doesn't have to be that way - this tool can disable most of the AI nuisances in one simple click |
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Microsoft promises to make Windows 11 the best operating system for gaming says it will focus on background workloads, power and scheduling, graphics stack, and drivers - Tomshardware - 10/12 9:56 pm Microsoft says Windows 11 will receive major gaming-focused enhancements in 2026, including broader support for Xbox Full Screen Experience, Auto Super Resolution for handhelds, expanded Advanced Shader Delivery, and more |
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Amazon and to commit $35bn into AI in India - Techradar - 10/12 9:35 pm Amazon's $35 billion commitment is more than what Google and Microsoft have pledged, combined |
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Rubio Orders Diplomats To Return To Using Times New Roman Font - Slashdot - 10/12 9:00 pm Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters. The department under Blinken in early January 2023 had switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, saying this was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did not have the decorative angular features and was the default in Microsoft products |
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Microsoft Visio Pro is just $12.97 for the holidays - Mashable - 10/12 6:53 pm Get a Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional Lifetime License for Windows for just $12.97 a powerful diagramming tool for turning complex data into clear visuals. |
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Microsoft to invest $17.5 billion in India's AI infra as Big Tech bets on country's growth potential - Cnbc - 10/12 4:29 pm Microsoft has pledged $17.5 billion in investment in India's cloud and AI infrastructure, as major tech players commit to the growing market |
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Amazon, Microsoft pledge mega AI investments in India - BBC - 10/12 3:50 pm India, which is an emerging AI and cloud infrastructure hub, has witnessed a surge of global tech investment recently. |
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Think AI actions in Windows 11 are pointless? Microsoft is letting you banish them from the right-click menu - Techradar - 10/12 8:30 am Windows 11 will soon have tidier right-click menus by allowing AI actions to be fully removed from File Explorer |
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Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday - Theregister - 10/12 7:42 am Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole Happy December Patch Tuesday to all who celebrate. This month's patch party includes one Microsoft flaw under exploitation, plus two others listed as publicly known but just 57 CVEs in total from Redmond. |
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Others Create Foundation for Standardizing AI Agents - Gizmodo - 10/12 7:05 am Microsoft, AWS, and Saleforce are also supporting the initiative. |
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Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength As Market Grows Weary of Spending - Slashdot - 10/12 6:02 am Through the first six months of 2025, Apple was the second-worst performer among the Magnificent Seven tech giants, as its shares tumbled 18% through the end of June. That has reversed since then, with the stock soaring 35%, while AI darlings like Meta Platforms and Microsoft slid into the red and even Nvidia underperformed |
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Microsoft 365 Prices Rising For Businesses and Governments in July 2026 - Slashdot - 10/12 4:41 am Microsoft has announced that it will raise prices on its Microsoft 365 productivity suites for businesses and government clients starting in July 2026, marking the first commercial price increase since 2022 |
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Nearly one-third of teens use AI chatbots daily - Engadget - 10/12 4:00 am OpenAI's ChatGPT came out ahead by far, with 59 percent of teens saying they had used the service, followed by Google's Gemini at 23 percent and Meta AI at 20 percent. Just 14 percent of teens said they had ever used Microsoft Copilot, and 9 percent and 3 percent reported using Character AI and Anthropic's Claude, respectively |
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Microsoft To Invest $17.5 Billion in India - Slashdot - 10/12 2:15 am Microsoft announced on Tuesday its largest-ever investment in Asia -- $17.5 billion over four years starting in 2026 -- to expand cloud and AI infrastructure across India, fund skilling programs, and support ongoing operations in the country |
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Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 now has a Stranger Things expansion - Engadget - 10/12 1:39 am Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 just got a fairly bizarre expansion inspired by the Netflix show Stranger Things |
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Xbox Is Bleeding Out - Slashdot - 10/12 12:50 am Microsoft's Xbox consoles were conspicuously absent from Black Friday's winners, failing to crack the top three in U.S |
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Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable - Slashdot - 9/12 10:41 pm Microsoft Excel, the 40-year-old spreadsheet application that helped establish personal computers as essential workplace tools and contributed to Microsoft's current valuation of nearly $4 trillion, has weathered both the rise of cloud computing and the current AI boom largely unscathed |
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This GitHub script claims to wipe all of Windows 11's AI features in seconds "RemoveWindowsAI" can disable every single AI feature in the OS, from Copilot to Recall and more - Tomshardware - 9/12 10:21 pm If you've been unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken Windows, offering no meaningful improvements beyond AI and aesthetics, then, well, not much can be done about that |
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Microsoft unveils $23 billion in new AI investments with big focus on India - Star - 9/12 10:20 pm BENGALURU, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled $23 billion in new artificial intelligence investments, with the bulk earmarked for India as the U.S |
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Tech's biggest losers of 2025 - Engadget - 9/12 10:00 pm Igor Bonifacic, Senior reporter Xbox An Xbox Ally X running the Windows full screen experience. Sam Rutherford for Engadget Did anything go right for Xbox this year? While price increases have also affected Sony and Nintendo, Microsoft cranked up the prices of both the Xbox Series S and X twice in the last year |
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Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers - Theregister - 9/12 8:26 pm Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their elders Despite its advancing years, Microsoft Excel is proving a hit with young finance professionals, many of whom reckon the aging number-cruncher has a bright future. |
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Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsofts agentic future - Theregister - 9/12 1:35 am Native MCP support lands in Insider Dev and Beta builds Microsoft has begun rolling out a public preview of native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the latest Windows 11 Insider builds, edging its much-touted agentic OS vision closer to reality. |
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Give your PC a total refresh for just $10 with this Microsoft upgrade - Mashable - 8/12 8:19 pm Give your PC a total refresh with this lifetime license to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for $9.97 (reg |
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Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas - Theregister - 8/12 5:30 pm Cant take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out These are hard times, even for the biggest brands |
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Get powerful Microsoft Office apps for less than $5 each for life - Mashable - 7/12 7:00 am Upgrade a PC with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows lifetime license for just $34.97 (reg |
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Linus Torvalds Defends Windows' Blue Screen of Death - Slashdot - 6/12 9:13 pm Without ECC, the memory will go bad, sooner or later. He thinks that more than software bugs, often it is hardware behind Microsoft's blue screen of death |
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And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is... - Theregister - 6/12 7:00 pm Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be |
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Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 to pay for more AI and security - Theregister - 6/12 12:39 am All those new features wont fund themselves Microsoft 365 customers have gotten an early Christmas present from Santa Satya: price rises |
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The New York Times and Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement - Engadget - 5/12 11:36 pm Upon information and belief, Perplexity has unlawfully copied millions of copyrighted Chicago Tribune stories, videos, images and other works to power its products and tools." These lawsuits are the latest in dozens of legal cases involving copyright holders and AI companies in the US. The Times, for instance, previously sued OpenAI and Microsoft |
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Microsoft 365 is hiking prices for businesses - here's how much it will cost you - Techradar - 5/12 9:45 pm Microsoft is increasing M365/O365 prices for business/government customers, but not without merit |
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Microsoft's Copilot+ AI PC plan fizzled, but it still served a purpose - Engadget - 5/12 9:00 pm Microsoft's Copilot+ initiative launched last year with a clear goal: To produce capable laptops for people eagerly anticipating AI-powered features |
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Windows 11's Run prompt is getting a makeover and a handy extra power but already there are worries Microsoft will ruin it - Techradar - 5/12 7:46 pm An ancient part of Windows 11 is seemingly getting a makeover but people are scared Microsoft's going to somehow make it sluggish |
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Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help - Theregister - 5/12 6:38 pm Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout Capita has sought Microsoft's help after the launch of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) left users facing a malfunctioning website designed to process important financial information. |
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The best laptops for gaming and schoolwork in 2025 - Engadget - 5/12 6:01 pm For schoolwork, the GPU matters too but its importance depends on what you're doing. If your school tasks mostly involve writing papers, browsing the web or using productivity tools like Google Docs or Microsoft Office, you dont need a high-end GPU |
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10 Berita Teknologi Ketenteraan Paling Menarik 2025 - Amanz - 5/12 1:09 pm Tahun ini penggunaan AI semakin dipertingkatkan oleh kuasa-kuasa besar serta skandal besar melibatkan teknologi Azure disalahgunakan oleh Israel bagi melakukan genosid ke atas Palestin. 1.Israel Menggunakan Microsoft Azure Untuk Memantau Warga Palestin Tahun lepas Isreal melakukan […] |
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Microsoft raises its subscription fee for Microsoft 365 - Technave - 5/12 11:12 am Looks like Microsoft users are in for an upset |
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Langganan Microsoft 365 Untuk Pengguna Perniagaan dan Kerajaan Dinaikkan Tahun Depan - Amanz - 5/12 10:25 am Tahun baharu lazimnya disambut dengan azam baharu, kereta baharu dan kadang kala pekerjaan baharu bagi membezakannya dengan tahun sebelumnya. Bagi pelanggan Microsoft 365, bermula Julai 2026 harga langganan baharu akan dikenakan sekiranya anda pengguna pelan perniagaan, komersial dan kerajaan Hampir semua pelan langganan Microsoft 365 untuk pengguna perniagaan dan komersial akan dinaikkan harga sehingga 34% |
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LG Elec says Microsoft and LG affiliates pursuing cooperation on data centres - Star - 5/12 9:48 am SEOUL, Dec 5 (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc said on Friday that Microsoft and LG affiliates are pursuing overall business cooperation regarding data centres, but no specific deal has been signed at this time |
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Microsoft to lift productivity suite prices for businesses, governments - Star - 5/12 7:40 am Dec 4 (Reuters) - Microsoft will increase prices for its Microsoft 365 productivity suites globally starting July 2026 for commercial and government clients, the company said on Thursday |
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Microsoft will raise prices of commercial Office subscriptions in July - Cnbc - 5/12 5:13 am For the second time in five years, Microsoft is hiking prices for commercial customers of its widely used Office bundles. |
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Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse - Theregister - 5/12 4:01 am Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime networks. |
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Microsoft 'Mitigates' Windows LNK Flaw Exploited As Zero-Day - Slashdot - 5/12 3:19 am joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft has silently "mitigated" a high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability exploited by multiple state-backed and cybercrime hacking groups in zero-day attacks |
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EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform - Theregister - 5/12 1:08 am OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot. |
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Microsoft denies reports of lower AI sales targets as customers resist new tools - Techradar - 4/12 11:59 pm Microsoft says it hasnt lowered AI sales targets, and Azure revenue is up 40% year-over-year |
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Microsoft quietly patches LNK vulnerability that's been weaponized for years - Techradar - 4/12 11:00 pm The November Patch Tuesday fixed an age-old bug being exploited by nation-states |
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Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits - Theregister - 4/12 9:24 pm Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explorer in the latest round of updates. |
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Proton Sheets joins the company's productivity suite - Engadget - 4/12 7:00 pm A big part of Proton's pitch is privacy, promising that users' information won't be used for training AI. The company also protects user data with end-to-end encryption by default; the press release pointedly notes that products like Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel don't do the same |
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Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals - Cnbc - 4/12 3:51 am Microsoft stock sank after a report that multiple sales teams for the company's Azure Foundry product missed growth goals in the last fiscal year. |
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas - Arstechnica - 4/12 2:24 am Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying. |
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Windows 11 Growth Slows As Millions Stick With Windows 10 - Slashdot - 4/12 1:17 am The Register reports: The Register spoke to Lansweeper principal technical evangelist Esben Dochy, who noted that consumers were more likely to have devices that couldn't be upgraded or follow the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule when it comes to change. He also pointed out consumers in the EU get Microsoft Extended Security Updates (ESU) for free |
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Microsoft sharpens the blocking axe for Exchange Web Services - Theregister - 4/12 12:35 am Starting in March, Frontline Worker and Kioskonly mailboxes lose EWS access Microsoft is getting serious about the end of Exchange Web Services (EWS) and has announced that, starting in March 2026, it will begin blocking EWS access to mailboxes without license rights. |
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Microsoft Lowers AI Software Sales Quota As Customers Resist New Products - Slashdot - 4/12 12:16 am An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Multiple divisions at Microsoft have lowered sales growth targets for certain artificial intelligence products after many sales staff missed goals in the fiscal year that ended in June, The Information reported on Wednesday |
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New Windows 11 'PC you can talk to' ad pushing Copilot is proving divisive and I can see it seriously backfiring - Techradar - 3/12 11:10 pm Another advert in a series of promos for voice input and Copilot seems an unwise move from Microsoft |
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Microsoft lowers AI software sales quota as customers resist new products, The Information reports - Star - 3/12 10:47 pm Dec 3 (Reuters) - Multiple divisions at Microsoft have lowered sales growth targets for certain artificial intelligence products after many sales staff missed goals in the fiscal year that ended in June, The Information reported on Wednesday |
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Zig Quits GitHub, Says Microsoft's AI Obsession Has Ruined the Service - Slashdot - 3/12 10:14 pm The Zig Software Foundation has quit GitHub after years of unresolved GitHub Actions bugs -- including a "safe_sleep" script that could spin forever and cripple CI runners. Zig leadership puts the blame on Microsoft's growing AI-first priorities and declining engineering quality |
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Microsoft just broke File Explorer dark mode some Windows 11 users are seeing jarring white flashes when opening folders - Techradar - 3/12 7:38 pm Dark mode goes rogue thanks to new bug in latest preview update which was supposed to improve the feature |
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Anthropic Acquires Bun In First Acquisition - Slashdot - 3/12 1:05 pm Anthropic has made its first acquisition by buying Bun, the engine behind its fast-growing Claude Code agent. The move strengthens Anthropic's push into enterprise developer tooling as it scales Claude Code with major backers like Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, and Google |
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Microsoft and Google AI veteran to replace outgoing Apple exec John Giannandrea - Techradar - 3/12 3:08 am Apples ML and AI Strategy SVP is leaving next year, but ex-Microsoft AI VP Amar Subramanya is joining |
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Microsoft mops up Mesh after another metaverse misfire - Theregister - 3/12 1:35 am Dreams of a virtual world linger on in Teams As of December 1, mixed reality collaboration platform Microsoft Mesh is no more, and Redmond has directed customers to immersive events in Teams. |
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Cyber Monday subscription and streaming deals you can still get: Big discounts on Starz, MasterClass, Headspace and more - Engadget - 3/12 12:55 am If you've ever wanted to be lulled to sleep by Jonathan Bailey, Matthew McConaughey or Idris Elba, this app is for you. AdGuard personal (lifetime) for $44 (45 percent off): AdGuard was recently in the news for automatically blocking Microsoft's Recall AI surveillance app, which is a great indication of its mission it fights threats to your privacy, no matter where they come from |
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Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another - Theregister - 3/12 12:55 am Amar Subramanya spent mere months at Microsoft before replacing John Giannandrea Apple's failure to deliver advanced AI capabilities has triggered a changing of the guard |
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AWS joins Microsoft, Google in the security AI agent race - Theregister - 3/12 12:02 am Preview tool promises quicker reviews and faster flaw-finding for cloud apps Re:Invent AI agents are key to launching applications more quickly and making them more secure from the start, Amazon says |
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