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TL;DR: Cancel Microsoft 365 and get the same apps for life with a Microsoft Office Pro Plus lifetime license on sale for $54.99. Microsoft 365 becomes a worse deal the longer…

By Mike Swift ( July 25, 2026, 00:21 GMT | Insight) — OpenAI and Microsoft could soon see the number of lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT guided people to commit suicide…

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I’ve been keeping an eye on global PC shipments as part of the ongoing RAM crisis for more than a year, and it seems that the component shortage has finally…

Microsoft’s big ‘reset’ of Xbox has left major scars on the brand, laying off 3,200 people across many Xbox gaming studios, like id Software, Arkane, and ZeniMax, and causing a…

Microsoft will place another meeting feature behind a paywall. Outlook’s Meeting Insight feature will be retired by early September 2026. After that date, meeting insights will not appear in event…

Windows 11’s right-click zone resizing for touchpads is officially out now. Now, you’ll be able to gain direct control over how large the bottom-right-click region is on your trackpad. The…

By Rachel Riley ( July 24, 2026, 10:39 PM EDT) — Microsoft urged a Seattle federal judge Thursday to pause a proposed class action alleging its Teams software illegally intercepts…

Knox has partnered with Microsoft on secure government access to commercial software The partnership targets a 90-day path to production-ready federal cloud environments The 2026 FedCiv Summit on Oct. 29…

A crafted SVG submitted to Bing’s image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Microsoft’s production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines in the same fleet. XBOW’s…

Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads…

Not so long ago I wrote about my next step in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 being the acquisition of a Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas One. The thought process was that it’s…

Microsoft has extended Windows 10 support until October 2027, but it’s not out of kindness. New data suggests that customers are still rejecting Windows 11, even as the original extended…

In a new video, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Windows+Devices Pavan Davuluri, and Corporate Vice President of Surface Brett Ostrum have sat down to talk about what’s next for Surface,…

We’re inching ever closer to the official release date for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and that means it’s almost time for fans of the first-person shooter franchise to…

Cliff Bleszinski is a legendary name among Xbox fans, as this man was the lead designer behind the original Gears of War trilogy that helped put the Xbox 360 become…

Knox Systems (Knox), the largest, longest-running federal managed cloud, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to help commercial software companies deploy secure, mission-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud for…

Microsoft released a slew of Windows Insider Builds last night, continuing a trend of non-Friday releases. The tech giant says that it is “working on getting all flights back on…

Windows 11 is testing a new “feature” that will let you reassign the Copilot key to do nothing. Yes, literally. Newer Windows PCs have shipped with a dedicated Copilot key…

If you’ve enabled the “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” toggle on the Windows Update page, you may want to turn it off. Otherwise, Windows could install…

A widespread Microsoft outage is disrupting access to several websites and applications on Thursday morning.  Microsoft Outage What we know: A Microsoft outage is affecting several different sites and applications,…

Two-thirds of organizations have delayed or cancelled deployment of Microsoft Copilot over concerns that the AI-powered assistant could expose confidential data, a survey of security leaders has revealed. CoreView’s State…

“[Enterprises should focus on] identifying vulnerabilities with credible and functional PoCs, verified exploitation, or sustained attention from ransomware groups, threat actors, and botnets,” says Caitlin Condon, vice president of security…

Fans of the legendary action-RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, won’t have to wonder when they can expect to see gameplay footage of its upcoming Songs of the Past expansion…

If you spend your entire day managing complex multi-monitor setups, editing video, or plowing through spreadsheets, you know that standard mice aren’t always the best fit for long-term comfort. While…

Microsoft Whiteboard will still be available after August 22, 2026, but you may not be able to use it. After that date, the app will require a Microsoft Business account….

Microsoft has a lot of work to bring good cheer back to gamers after its massive restructuring of Xbox laid off 3,200 people, and one of the ways it’s doing…

Microsoft Surface will appear prominently in front of football fans, and I don’t mean “American football.” Manchester United and Qualcomm have expanded their partnership, which will continue to promote Surface…

Microsoft has finally begun replacing the decades-old File Explorer Properties dialog with a modern version as part of the company’s efforts to modernize Windows 11. Thankfully, the new Properties dialog…