And a cloud PC that's for AI agents only Microsoft has created a new type of AI PC the Windows 365 AI-enabled Cloud PC

The outage was reminiscent of those that hit Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft cloud services last month, disrupting some online services for video games, businesses and transport firms

Constellation unveiled plans to rename and restart the reactor in Sept. 2024 through a power purchase agreement with Microsoft to support the tech company's data center demand in the region

BORK is borked Microsoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds.

PARIS (Reuters) -European Union regulators on Tuesday designated 19 technology companies, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft, as critical third-party computing providers for the bloc's finance industry

Microsofts agentic Windows OS announcement triggered online backlash as users worry AI tools and cloud features may disrupt workflows

ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.

OK, yes, it's a gross simplification to just look at market cap. But equivalents to Oracle shares are little changed over the same period (Nasdaq Composite, Microsoft, Dow Jones US Software Index), so the $15 billion loss figure [figure updated with stock price] is not entirely wrong

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in Windows 11 fails to replicate the capabilities shown in the company's TV advertisements

Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues.

From Agent 365 to Foundry's MCP tool catalog and new IQ services, Microsoft is moving beyond copilots and toward a future where software development becomes an automated assembly process.

Microsoft announced new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and the AI startup Anthropic.

Fresh off a reorganized deal with OpenAI, Microsoft is diversifying its AI investments

European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act The European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -In Microsoft's view, humans are not the only ones to manage in a workplace

Microsoft has helped companies build AI agents that can do specific kinds of work

Users who thought they were safely in the program hit errors on day one Microsoft has shipped a fix for commercial customers who believed they were enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program but received error messages on the first Patch Tuesday after support ended.

They can generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from simple text prompts

Microsoft has rolled out a new preview build for Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev and Beta Channel this week that introduces a new toggle called 'experimental agentic features' that can be enabled or disabled in the Windows Settings app

Aisuru mounts another record-breaking DDoS attack, with Microsoft Azure the target this time

Copilot is bringing a host of new AI agents to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Microsoft still sees AI agents as the future of work, and the enterprise software giant wants companies to be able to manage those agents just like human employees.

Microsoft Agent 365 will help organizations govern agents responsibly and at scale

(Reuters) -Microsoft and Nvidia plan to invest in Anthropic under a new tie-up that includes a $30 billion commitment by the Claude maker to use Microsoft's cloud services, the latest high-profile deal binding together major players in the AI industry

Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI-rival Anthropic announced strategic partnerships today that will scale Claude on Microsoft Azure and bring up to $15 billion in new investment to the AI startup

On top of that, Fortnite Crew puts 1,000 V-Bucks in subscribers wallets every month. Microsoft announced Fortnite Crew as a perk for Game Pass Premium in early October, when it jacked up the price of the service to $30 per month

Microsoft's Azure cloud has mitigated the largest DDoS attack in history at close to 16 Tbps from the Aisuru botnet

As part of the latest Windows Insider Build, a new experimental feature called "agentic features" has been added, allowing AI agents to create Agent Workspaces that perform tasks and read files. Microsoft says it's secure because these spaces have their own runtime, desktop and permissions

Microsoft has announced that its next Xbox Partner Preview will air this week and feature a brand new look at some of its upcoming games

Wondering how Windows 11's AI agents will work? Microsoft explains how 'agent workspaces' are lightweight and secure

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp's Azure, and Alphabet Inc's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union's crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms' market power

"On October 24, 2025, Azure DDOS Protection automatically detected and mitigated a multi-vector DDoS attack measuring 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps). This was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud and it targeted a single endpoint in Australia," reads a report published by Microsoft

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union's crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms' market power

Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.

Microsoft connects large AI data centers into a single superfactory, using dense hardware, fast fiber, and advanced cooling to handle growing model demands

AI weather prediction is becoming a crowded field. Companies like NVIDIA , Microsoft, AccuWeather and Huawei are all throwing their hats in the ring in one way or another

LONDON (Reuters) -Boaz Weinstein's Saba Capital Management has sold credit derivatives in recent months to lenders seeking protection on big tech names like Oracle and Microsoft due to concerns over a debt-financed AI investment frenzy, a source told Reuters

Scam looks to trick users into authorizing a malicious web app and give it keys to your Microsoft 365 kingdom

Microsoft claims it listens to feedback while complaints mount over everyday usability Rather than enjoying some downtime at the weekend, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri made the classic mistake of reading the replies to his post about the operating system's "agentic" future.

Following months of rumors, Valve finally announced the new Steam Machine earlier this week. And while I might question the company's decision to ship a system with only 8GB of VRAM in 2026, I believe the "Gabecube" will do more for PC gaming than anything Microsoft has done in the last decade

Top Windows 11 exec tries to put out flames around agentic AI controversy but rage is still burning out there

Expect Sloppy Updates? On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.

Tribunal rules ValueLicensing was legally allowed to resell Microsoft licenses

"Windows is evolving into an agentic OS," Microsoft's president of Windows Pavan Davuluri posted on X.com, "connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere." But former Uber software engineer and engineering manager Gergely Orosz was unimpressed

Weeks after ChatGPT was unleashed on the world in November 2022, sustainability executives at Microsoft Corp realised they had a big problem

For both your everyday and power users alike, the gap between messaging and actual, measurable action in response to criticism remains stark

Microsofts OS/2 for Mach 20 sold just eleven copies, revealing how innovation without practical value can lead to total market failure

Make an old PC feel new again for just $9.97 with this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license through tonight at 11:59 p.m

While the financial world is still dominated by Java, all other terrains show equal shares between Java and C#. Besides this, Microsoft is going strong and C# is still their most backed programming language

Microsoft's Surface Laptop impresses with a sleek form factor and marathon battery

As we navigate the bumpy road from passwords to passkeys, the authenticator already in your system could define our passwordless future.

Last chance to get Microsoft Office 2021 Professional for $40 before Nov

But it's also possible these in-game rewards look weird because they were made in the rush to get the game out the door. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has the honor of being the first in the franchise to launch on Xbox Game Pass , one way Microsoft hopes to justify the subscription's recent price hike

Microsoft has just been dealt a major legal blow as the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has essentially declared that reselling perpetual licenses is perfectly fine

Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal Microsoft's attempt to claim that its software can't be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipart does not mean customers can't sell their licenses on

Windows Recall is one of the biggest AI features Microsoft has added to Windows 11

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The developer of Task Manager believes Windows has become a marketing tool, even as a Microsoft president boasts about Windows becoming a more agentic OS.

With today's update, Google is also adding to the variety of sources NotebookLM can access. Now the app can pull data from Google Sheets, Microsoft Word documents and PDFs you've uploaded to Google Drive

Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly Microsoft's MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), the official .NET solution for cross-platform desktop and mobile apps, will get Linux and browser support via Avalonia, a third-party framework

Windows 11 23H2 has gone the way of Windows 10, and now it's no longer supported, Microsoft is forcing upgrades to 25H2

Long before automatic updates, the Windows 95 team tweaked third-party software to keep it running How to get that all-important piece of software working on Windows has vexed Microsoft since the beginning of the operating system

Microsoft Windows president faces withering criticism in response to boasts that 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'

Samsung's new smart TVs include the Vision AI Companion, a voice-activated AI assistant powered by Bixby, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity

The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place Microsoft believes the next generation of AI models will use hundreds of trillions of parameters

Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues OpenAI may be burning far more capital serving its GPT-family of models than previously thought

November's Patch Tuesday updates fix 63 flaws in total but two of them are critical vulnerabilities that require your immediate attention

Valve has unveiled a new Steam Machine console, taking a second shot at living room gaming a decade after its 2 Steam Machine initiative failed. The 6-inch cube runs Linux-based SteamOS but plays Windows games through Proton, a compatibility layer built on Wine that translates Microsoft graphical APIs

A bug was keeping Windows 10 PCs from enrolling in Microsoft's ESU program.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft employs various schemes to stop Edge users from switching to Chrome, and the latest includes financial rewards for sticking with the browser

The internet was upset with Microsoft's plans to shove more AI into Windows.

Microsoft has published an out-of-band Windows 10 update that finally addresses all of the glitches surrounding Extended Security Update (ESU) enrollment

After acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo last year, Google has relaunched a version of the service that makes it easier for Windows-based organizations to migrate over to ChromeOS. From a report: Now called "Cameyo by Google," the Virtual App Delivery (VAD) solution allows users to run legacy Windows apps in the Chrome browser or as web apps, preventing organizations from being tied to Microsoft's operating system

Far from being a one-off outlay, there's a danger of AI capex becoming a huge recurring expense. That's great for Nvidia and co., but not necessarily for hyperscalers such as Google and Microsoft

End of support? Not quite Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update on November 11 to fix a malfunctioning enrollment wizard that prevented eligible Windows 10 users from accessing Extended Security Updates (ESU).

Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13

Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code As Microsoft's Task Manager celebrates three decades - and grapples with its modern tendency to leave orphaned processes behind - its creator has shared the story of how the much loved troubleshooting tool came to be