Microsoft’s 32GB RAM push sparks backlash as users blame Windows 11’s poor optimization, rising memory demands, and growing software bloat instead of real performance improvements.
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization. After focusing on highly requested Xbox console features, reducing the price of Game Pass, and moving Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox, Sharma is reorganizing the Xbox platform team at Microsoft today. The changes will see […]
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they’re released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform “pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research […]
Microsoft is finally giving up on showing the junk feed of MSN news when you open the widgets feature in Windows 11. After allowing Windows 11 users to disable the MSN feed more than two years ago, Microsoft says it will soon hide it by default as part of an effort to make widgets “quiet […]
Microsoft is rolling out a service-side fix for a classic Outlook bug that made shared Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files open blank, with browser-based workarounds available until it reaches everyone.
Microsoft is retiring Edge’s sidebar app list as part of a browser simplification push, removing pinned web apps while keeping Copilot in place.
Microsoft is testing its much-needed refresh for the Windows 11 Run menu, offering a modern interface that the company says is faster and comes with support for dark mode. The redesign is rolling out now to Windows 11 Insiders in the new Experimental Channel. In a blog post explaining the changes, Microsoft says it decided […]
A new AI legal assistant is coming to Word as lawyers and courts continue to learn how costly fake chatbot citations can be.
The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.