Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Stack To Cut OpenAI Dependence

Microsoft used Build 2026 to launch seven in-house MAI models, new Cobalt 200 silicon and the Majorana 2 quantum chip, a ...
SecurityWeek

Exclusive: How One Line of Code Put Billions of Microsoft Android App Downloads at Risk

Six Microsoft 365 Android apps contain an identical flaw that could risk billions of downloads being compromised. The ...

Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was ...
Redmondmag.com

Microsoft Uses Build 2026 To Put AI Agents at the Center of Windows

Microsoft used Build 2026 to position Windows as a platform for building and running AI agents, expanding its developer focus beyond AI-assisted apps and into agents that can act across local devices, ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Voluntary Retirement Offer: New Details Reveal Who Qualifies

News graphic featuring the logo of Microsoft. Microsoft is offering longtime US employees severance, healthcare, and stock vesting through its first voluntary retirement program. More details have ...
PC World

Windows 11 still runs on code from the 1990s, Microsoft admits

PCWorld reports that Windows 11 still relies on code from the 1990s, particularly the Win32 API from Windows 95, for basic functions like right-clicking. Microsoft CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledges ...
GeekWire

Microsoft employees learn details of voluntary retirement package: Here’s what the company is offering

A Microsoft-branded beanie at the company store at the tech giant’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft employees eligible for the company’s first-ever ...
CNN

Microsoft, Google and xAI will let the government test their AI models before launch

Google, Microsoft and xAI will share unreleased versions of their AI models with the government to curb cybersecurity threats, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced on Tuesday.
VentureBeat

Writer launches AI agents that can act without prompts, taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce

Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and Insight Partners, today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to ...
Seattle Times

Here’s how much Microsoft’s buyout program will cost

Microsoft’s workforce will shrink in the next year, likely driven by the company’s recently announced voluntary retirement program. Those buyouts, which will be formally offered in about a week, will ...
CNET

I Replaced Microsoft 365 With This Free Program, and I'm Happy With the Switch

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

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. This week, the ...