Microsoft finally fixes the Windows 11 Widgets and makes them far less distracting

Microsoft is shipping a “quiet by default” Widgets overhaul, and the sheer number of things being turned off says a lot.

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 now come with Snapdragon X2 chips
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 now come with Snapdragon X2 chips

Microsoft is launching new Surface Laptops and a Surface Pro with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processors. These are direct follow-ups to the Surface Laptops and Surface Pro from 2024 that launched with Snapdragon X1 chips and jumpstarted Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PC initiative with Windows on Arm. The new X2 Surfaces are available today. The Surface Pro […]

You may soon be able to split your Xbox purchases into installments

Code spotted on the Xbox website suggests Microsoft is preparing buy now, pay later integrations with Klarna and PayPal, letting users split the cost of games and hardware into installments.

Three Xbox studios are trying to buy their way out of Microsoft’s gaming restructuring
Three Xbox studios are trying to buy their way out of Microsoft’s gaming restructuring

Three Xbox-owned studios are in active negotiations to buy themselves back from Microsoft rather than face closure, according to Bloomberg. Compulsion Games in Montreal, Double Fine Productions in San Francisco, and Ninja Theory in Cambridge, England, …

The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ costs $1,699 and that is gaming laptop money for a handheld
The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ costs $1,699 and that is gaming laptop money for a handheld

MSI’s Claw 8 EX AI+ will launch on June 23 at $1,699, making it the most expensive handheld gaming PC ever sold at retail. The device is the first to ship with Intel’s Arc G3 Extreme processor, built on the Panther Lake platform with 12 Xe3 GPU cores a…

Samsung’s $2,100 Galaxy Book6 Edge ships with 16GB of RAM in 2026
Samsung’s $2,100 Galaxy Book6 Edge ships with 16GB of RAM in 2026

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Book6 Edge, the first laptop to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite processor. The chip delivers 80 trillion operations per second from its neural processing unit, double the 45 TOPS that defined the first generatio…

NHS England rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff after trial reports 43 minutes saved per day
NHS England rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff after trial reports 43 minutes saved per day

NHS England is giving more than 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in what will be the largest AI deployment in healthcare globally. The rollout follows a pilot across 90 NHS organisations in which 30,000 workers used …

Microsoft is considering spinning off Xbox entirely as the division’s margins hit 3%
Microsoft is considering spinning off Xbox entirely as the division’s margins hit 3%

Microsoft has not ruled out spinning off its Xbox division into a separate company. The Information reported that options under consideration include turning Xbox into a wholly owned subsidiary, forming a joint venture with outside partners, or selling…

Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox
Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox

Microsoft is preparing to lay off a significant chunk of its Xbox division and is reevaluating the plans for its next-generation Project Helix console. It’s apparently also considering dramatically restructuring its relationship with Xbox, and hasn’t ruled out spinning it off into a separate company. A new report from The Information suggests that Microsoft has […]