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Microsoft unveiled the Laptop Go 3 at its Surface 2023 event. The lightweight laptop comes with up to 15 hours of battery life, a 12.4-inch touchscreen, and a starting price of $799 in four colors.

Microsoft 365 Copilot, the generative AI productivity assistant, will officially launch on November 1 after several months of private testing. It will be available first for enterprise users

On September 21, 2023, during its special event in New York, Microsoft officially unveiled the next feature update for Windows 11. Version 23H2, a free update, is coming on September 26, 2023.

Copilot will now be Microsoft's overall name for its generative AI assistant. It will launch on Windows 11 September 26, and will also be included in other apps like Edge, Microsoft 365, and more.

A new report claims Microsoft plans to concentrate on releasing Surface PCs that don't take as many risks in their design, like the Surface Duo and the Surface Studio all-in-one PC.

Mikhail Parakhin, the recently named head of Microsoft's new Windows team, hinted strongly that the just announced DALL-E 3 generative AI art maker is already part of Bing Image Creator.

Microsoft has announced that it will be introducing four new AI text-to-speech voices optimised for conversations which can be used for chatbots, voice assistants or conversational agents.

Microsoft Edge 118 is now available for download and testing in the Beta Channel. The update brings smart find, changed update notifications, new policies, Edge for Business improvements, and more.

The new design for live presentations in Microsoft Forms offers some extra space for users to put in questions and show some more content. There's also a new format to show your questions and more.

GitHub Copilot Chat was launched earlier this year for business customers, but now the beta version of the generative AI code assistant is available to everyone across Visual Studio and VS Code.

Microsoft's GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps will allow software developers to work in the cloud with a number of extra security features that are available with a special license.

AV-TEST recently released its report comparing various antivirus solutions for home users on Windows 10. The firm found that Microsoft Defender, among others, can be system hogs sometimes.

The new Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 11 preview version 2308.40000.3.0 adds a number of improvements and an experimental feature for Localhost loopback support for “Local network access”

Preload has begun for Turn 10's highly anticipated Forza Motorsport. The racing simulation will require up to 132GB of space on the Xbox Series X at launch. It will be released on October 10.

Users discovered a new hidden feature in the recently released Windows 11 build 23545. As it turned out, Microsoft is testing folders for the Recommended section in Windows 11's Start menu.

A new report includes parts of an internal memo sent by Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi, teasing how Thursday's press event in New York City will offer more info on the company's AI efforts.

A new report claims the UK Competition and Markets Authority could make a preliminary decision on whether or not to approve Microsoft's plan to buy Activision Blizzard sometime next week.

Microsoft has upgraded Windows 11 22H2 ADK which allows admins to deploy customized Windows images. The new update brings improvements related to WinPE, System Image Manager, and WPA.

Microsoft was not releasing feature updates for Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online and now says it will block EWS requests from non-Microsoft apps to Exchange Online starting Oct. 1, 2026.

Internal emails from Microsoft showed that the company didn't think much of Larian Studios' D&D RPG Baldur's Gate 3, but the developer doesn't feel offended as the game's success was a total surprise.

Two weeks into its launch, Xbox and Bethesda's brand-new sci-fi RPG experience, Starfield, is already touting 10 million players. The developer has called it an "astronomical" number to hit.

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has responded to the massive leak that contained Microsoft's plans for the Xbox ecosystem going forward, saying "so much has changed and there's so much to be excited about."

Microsoft and Relic are delivering Age of Empires IV's first paid expansion, and it carries Japanese and Byzantines as new civs, 10 fresh maps, a brand-new The Sultans Ascend campaign, and more.

A new report claims someone at Microsoft accidentally uploaded the huge Xbox information packet, containing info on future planned Xbox consoles and games, to a federal court website.

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Microsoft Edge is a free web browser based on the Chromium Open Source project and other Open Source software.

Intel has teased a single 5th Gen Xeon running ChatGPT on the cloud. If you have been keeping up, you may be aware of how intensive that can be. The firm also teased the next-gen chip's performance.

Microsoft says that removal of support for the Cortana voice assistant in Microsoft Teams Rooms and Teams Display devices has already begun and will be completed "over the course of the coming weeks"

In a newly revealed internal email, Microsoft Xbox head Phil Spencer revealed he had "numerous discussions" with Nintendo about "tighter collaboration" and said it was the "PRIME asset" for gaming.

Microsoft has updated its list of games coming to the Xbox Game Pass service for the rest of September and early October, with six games being added and seven titles going away on September 30.

According to another leaked document, Zenimax Media and Bethesda had been planning on remastering its hit RPGs Oblivion and Fallout 3. A brand-new Doom entry is also reportedly coming.

A massive leak of confidential documents containing a ton of hardware details and specifications for Microsoft's next-gen Xbox reveals how the company plans to become console king by 2030.

Leaked documents reveal Microsoft is planning a major Xbox Wireless Controller upgrade that will reportedly include haptic feedback and an accelerometer akin to PlayStation's DualSense.

FTC v. Microsoft courtroom battle leaks have started again, and the latest edition may have accidentally revealed Microsoft's next major hardware release from its Xbox console business.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux has received a new update today. The new release brings several interesting features that upgrade memory and disk management, as well as networking improvements.

The new Windows 10 22H2 Release Preview Build 19045.3513 (KB5030300) includes an improved search box experience on the taskbar, along with new taskbar icon animations, among other changes.

Recently it was speculated by the media that Intel and Microsoft may limit Wi-Fi 7 to Windows 11 and newer Windows versions. Intel, though, has seemingly now confirmed that's not going to be the case.

Code strings discovered in the latest Microsoft Paint Insider release may point to an AI image generator called Cocreator that may let users type in a prompt to make artwork in the app.

A new but unconfirmed report claims former Surface leader Panos Panay, who was announced as leaving Microsoft today, is actually headed over to rival Amazon to run its hardware and Alexa divisions.