It might not get the same kind of attention as Google and Apple, but Microsoft is still one of the biggest and most powerful tech companies operating today. It runs Azure, one of the biggest cloud computing services, and maintains Windows 11 and the whole Office suite of software. It also makes plenty of Surface hardware and has a whole slew of gaming products, including the Xbox Series X. But the company is ever expanding — building new hardware, acquiring new game studios, and making sure that even if Microsoft doesn’t run your phone, it can touch plenty of the apps on it.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma revealed a new entry in the Wolfenstein series with a brief tease.
Microsoft 365 issues have been cutting people off from their email since early Thursday afternoon, and they still aren’t fixed.
Sessions are limited to 30-minutes long, with a few minutes of ads before the timer starts. The free streaming option is publicly available now , after testing earlier this year . In September, Microsoft also added an option to buy pay-as-you-go Cloud Gaming playtime and set Cloud Gaming hour limits for its Game Pass subscriptions.
For your “is that a bubble popping?” Bingo cards: Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is reconsidering deals to rent server capacity from “ neoclouds ” to power its AI efforts, and has been turning off rented capacity from Oracle since declining to renew a 2023 deal .
Sources said the computing power Oracle offered used older Nvidia chips, and had become less useful to Microsoft.
He edited the entire “Mama Bear” film while the laptop was unplugged, according to a behind-the-scenes video from Microsoft that also includes the claim that the computer sees a “less than 1% drop in performance when unplugged.”
That said, a footnote in the video says that the editing was “not performed on a single battery charge.”
The KB5127936 update includes a cloud rebuild feature that restores the OS and your device drivers from Windows Update when your PC is unable to boot. It requires an internet connection, but spares you from needing to keep a recovery USB drive handy, and doesn’t relying on the integrity of the current installation.
Thomas Dohmke has officially launched Entire after teasing the decentralized coding platform in July. Similar to GitHub, developers can use the platform to host and review code, but it’s designed specifically to work with AI agents, replacing pull requests with a “Trails” feature that offers “customizable evals that are scored by agents on every code push.”
Not that I believe for a second that Apple will actually make a 2-in-1 convertible.
A Windows 11 Insider Preview build rolling out to the Beta and Experimental channels will allow you to right-click the network icon in your system tray and hit “Perform speed test” to run it right in your Quick Settings menu. The feature previously opened a speed test in your browser.
A new accelerated scrolling feature coming to Windows PCs with touchpads will allow you to scroll through long documents and webpages faster, Windows design head Marcus Ash announced on X. Microsoft is also adding the ability to continuously scroll through a page by swiping the edge of your touchpad, along with support for single-finger scrolling.
The Microsoft cofounder isn’t an AI doomer, but he says it’s still “the most dangerous weapon of all time.”
Microsoft’s annual report reveals the company employed around 223,000 people as of June 30th. That’s 5,000 less than the 228,000 people employed in 2025. It’s the first time Microsoft has had a headcount reduction in 10 years, after the gutting of the Nokia phone business in 2015 and 2016 . The reduction comes as Microsoft has laid off more than 9,000 employees over the past year.
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