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The rumored "AI Explorer" should steal the show at the Surface and Windows event on May 20. While we wait for the official announcement, a new report is revealing more details about the feature.

Microsoft has released a minor Windows 11 servicing channel update for members of the Windows Insider Program who are signed up in the Dev Channel. It does not contain any new features.

Developer Mojang has announced that the next free update for its sandbox game Minecraft will officially be known as the Tricky Trials update when it rolls out sometime later this year.

Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 build for members of the Windows Insider Program in the Beta Channel. The new 22635.3566 build turns the "Show desktop" button on by default.

Microsoft has announced a new feature for the recently upgraded Panner app in Teams. Its My Tasks page can now show any tasks assigned from the Planner Premium Plan in the "Assigned to me" view.

Microsoft has announced a new collaboration with the beauty company Estée Lauder to create a new AI Innovation Lab to help speed up product development for Estée Lauder's beauty brands.

Bethesda Game Studios released its big 'next-gen" update for Fallout 4 this week. However, the update also came with a number of bugs across its PC, Xbox, and PlayStation platforms.

Microsoft has just revealed Infra Copilot, a spinoff of its GitHub Copilot generative AI coding service. Infra Copilot is designed to help nfrastructure professionals generate infra code.

Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it.

Mojang just added three more perks to its Realms Plus server hosting service for Minecraft Bedrock Edition. This includes monthly access to character items, additional world render distance, and more.

Microsoft brought in $61.9 billion in revenue for its fiscal third quarter of 2024, which ended on March 31, 2024. Those numbers were up 17 percent from the same time period a year ago.

The newly revealed 8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode Controller can serve as an officially approved wired game controller for Xbox consoles, along with wireless support for PC and Android devices.

Microsoft's latest Free Play Days event for Xbox players brings Railway Empire and Prison Architect for Game Pass Core subscribers, while TramSim is available for any Xbox player to try out.

ExplorerPatcher has been updated to a new version with one important change: it no longer allows enabling the legacy Windows 10 taskbar on systems with Windows 11 version 24H2 (build 26002 and newer).

According to a new report, Qualcomm has big plans for its upcoming Snapdragon X platform. Besides the already announced X Elite and X Plus, the company plans lower-spec models and even server SKUs.

Bethesda has pushed out the next-gen update for Fallout 4 right on schedule. It carries native Xbox Series X|S and PS5 versions, wide-screen support, Steam Deck verification, and more.

A new report claims that after a series of high-profile security breaches at Microsoft, the company is now concentrating on making improvements to its security features and services.

If your Surface Pro 9 with Intel processors or the Surface Pro 8 has problems with audio recording or playback, the April 2024 firmware update is here to save the day with its audio improvements.

Microsoft has revealed that the classic Teams desktop app will no longer be updated or supported after July 1, 2024 and that it will stop working altogether in the near future as well.

Microsoft may finally be coming clean. With a new hidden change, the tech giant seems to acknowledge that "ads" on the Windows 11 Start menu are real, though it could also mean more ads are coming.

Google is rolling out a new feature in ChromeOS that will now allow Chromebook users to open, use, and edit Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in the Chromebook Files app.

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Starting with this week's non-security preview release, updates for Windows 10 22H2 should be much smaller for downloads, thanks to lessons learned from doing the same thing to Windows 11.

The popular cloud storage service Dropbox has announced it is launching a beta that adds support for real-time co-authoring features with Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more.

In a new notification, Xbox notified gamers that it will start deleting the game screenshots and images by May 30, 2024. It will remove images that are at least 90 days old on Xbox Network.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has announced it is taking comments from others to see if the partnerships that Microsoft and Amazon have made with AI companies could harm competition.

Skype Preview version 8.118 is available for download with all sorts of improvements. The app now remembers your camera preferences and offers better chat sorting and GIF picker performance.

Microsoft has updated the list of deprecated features with new details about Microsoft Defender Application Guard. The company plans to delist Application Guard app and all related extensions in May.

Microsoft is looking to display a system requirements cautionary message on Windows 11 24H2 PCs for when such a PC fails to meet the requirements for the upcoming AI-powered File Explorer.

Microsoft has released the non-security preview update for Windows 10 22H2 under KB5036979. It includes new Microsoft Account notifications, Widgets lock screen improvements and more.

Microsoft has released non-security updates for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 under KB5036980, They both include changes to the Start menu for apps, Widgets improvements and more updates.

Bethesda has announced that the Fallout franchise saw almost five million players in a single day across its games. The most recent entry, Fallout 76, saw one million players enter its online world.

Microsoft is rolling out a new update for the Dev Home app on Windows 10 and 11. Version 0.13 brings widget improvements, new Windows customization options, accessibility fixes, and more.

Microsoft goes into detail on some new features in its Edge web browser designed to add more text editing options, including using Copilot to rewrite text and more support for digital ink writing.

Microsoft and Google, in collaboration with Thorn and All Tech Is Human, have announced new child safety commitments for generative AI features in their various AI software products.

The Armored Paws update for Minecraft has gone live, and it carries the Mob Vote winner armadillos as a brand-new animal, eight wolf variants, and even fresh armor to keep them safe.

Microsoft has announced a new five-year deal with The Coca-Cola Company, which plans to spend a total of $1.1 billion during that time to access Microsoft's cloud and generative AI services.

To promote the current Disney+ Marvel animated series X-Men 97, Microsoft is giving away a custom Xbox Series X console with art that's also an exclusive X-Men 97 comic book story.

Microsoft has announced that a Russian hacker group has been exploiting an old Windows Print Spooler issue for as long as four years in order to "steal credentials in compromised networks."