My 9 top PC component picks for Prime Big Deal Days are verified steals — Upgrade your entire PC, or pick and choose from the best parts available | Windows

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event has officially kicked off, and as usual for these types of events, I’ve been scouring the web for the best deals on PC components….

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Gears of War: E-Day could overrun my PC storage — I’d buy this ultra-fast 2TB Samsung SSD while its price is falling | Windows

After much waiting, Gears of War: E-Day has fully launched for all players to enjoy on Xbox and PC, yet its base game’s 115GB install requirement is going to take…

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University of Washington opens GIX base on Microsoft campus | Windows

The University of Washington has opened its first full-time location on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, moving its Global Innovation Exchange into a dedicated 48,500-square-foot facility designed for teaching, research and professional…

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EU tried to escape “Microslop,” but its own staff hate the Microsoft Teams alternative, warning the US would “instantly win the war” | Windows

EU officials slam their Teams backup, but Teams is a 1GB web app The European Commission has been testing Element Pro, a self-hosted backup for Microsoft Teams, since the summer,…

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Microsoft, Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-Hous… | Windows

Microsoft and Meta each reduced their internal use of Anthropic’s Claude by encouraging employees to use their company’s own, in-house artificial intelligence tools, The Information reported Monday (Oct. 5), citing…

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Durham, Microsoft Open AI Skills Centre of Excellence | Windows

We have opened a new AI Skills Centre of Excellence in partnership with Microsoft. The Centre will bring together expertise, training and support for people to develop essential AI skills….

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Scotiabank Adjusts Price Target on Microsoft to $615 From $510, Keeps Sector Outperform Rating | Windows

Market Closed – 04:00:00 2026-10-02 pm EDT Pre-market 06:42:59 am … more Source www.marketscreener.com

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Microsoft distinguished engineer fires back at anti-Windows 11 rage-bait, says “more developers use Windows” than Linux or macOS | Windows

Microsoft Distinguished Engineer David Fowler called out a viral X post that said Windows is not worth developers’ time. It’s the typical Windows-hate rage-bait post, which Fowler recognized, while also…

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Quote of the day by Panos Panay: “To make a great product, you can’t have great software without the hardware; you can’t have great hardware without the software.” — Can Microsoft’s October 7 Surface event keep this vision alive? | Windows

A lot is happening this week in the world of Windows and Surface. Today is the fifth anniversary of Windows 11, a milestone that snuck up on me and plenty…

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The best Dell XPS laptop deal is here before Prime Day even starts | Windows

Prime Day starts on October 6, 2026, but arguably the best laptop deal of the week is already here. A $200 discount on the XPS 13 drops the XPS 13…

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Windows 11 26H2 quietly shipped with a major performance boost, and here’s why | Windows

Windows 11 26H2 may look like a boring annual update (because it is just an enablement package), but as it turns out, it arrives after months of performance work that…

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Microsoft warns fake CAPTCHA tests are hijacking Windows PCs | Windows

Microsoft is warning Windows users about a growing cyber threat that hides behind something that looks completely harmless: a CAPTCHA test. Hackers use fake verification pages to trick victims into…

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“Rising cost of memory,” Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM | Windows

Microsoft’s Windows chief Pavan Davuluri has admitted that the rising cost of memory is pushing the company to make Windows 11 use less RAM. Microsoft is working on the Windows…

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Windows 11’s File Explorer is finally giving the squiggly ~ key a job, sending it straight to the user folder | Windows

There’s a new Windows 11 update that will soon give the squiggly ~ key a job, and that is to quickly open folders like your user profile, Documents, Downloads, and,…

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Bill Gates: Microsoft Co-Founder Gives Enduring Warning To Businesses; ‘If Your Business Is Not On The Internet, Then Your Business Will Be Out Of Business’ | Windows

Decades after reshaping the global technological landscape, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ foundational assertion that any enterprise lacking an online presence faces inevitable commercial extinction continues to serve as a cornerstone…

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Instead of paying $99.99 per year for Microsoft 365, you can get Microsoft Office for life for $89.97 | Windows

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office for life on your Mac while it’s on sale for $89.97 (reg. $219). It costs $99.99 per year to get Microsoft 365. That’s a bill you’ll never…

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We’re 6 months into Microsoft’s campaign to fix Windows 11 — here are 5 things it got right, and 3 glaring oversights | Windows

It’s time for my quarterly report card on how Microsoft is progressing with its campaign to fix Windows 11. You may recall that my first report was published at the…

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Windows 7’s Aero Shake never disappeared from Windows 11, how to enable it right now | Windows

Windows 11 still has Aero Shake, the Windows 7 feature that lets you grab a window by its title bar and shake it to minimize every other open window. Microsoft…

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I stopped using the Excel filter button to find high and low values. These 2 functions do it better | Windows

Excel’s filter button is useful, but I’ve realized I was relying on it for the wrong job. When all I wanted was the highest or lowest number that matched a…

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Microsoft confirms big Windows 11 announcement, as it keeps ripping out Windows 95-era UI and chasing speed | Windows

Microsoft’s October 7 event is now officially about Windows, Surface, and NVIDIA RTX Spark, and top Windows executives have started teasing it. NVIDIA has also revealed the Windows work it…

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Microsoft confirms Windows 11 26H2 is crashing some games and apps, promises to fix it in the next update | Windows

It’s October 2026, and Microsoft is still finding new bugs in Windows 11’s September updates. We’ve already had a mandatory Patch Tuesday update, an emergency patch, and an optional release,…

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AI Advances into Biotech R&D: Microsoft’s Quine Sparks a Race Among Tech Giants — BigGo Finance | Windows

Artificial intelligence in scientific research (AI4S) is moving beyond its role as an auxiliary analytical tool and increasingly entering the core workflows of biological experimentation, drug discovery, and medical R&D….

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Rust Is Now a Tier-1 Programming Language at Microsoft | Windows

Microsoft has elevated Rust to Tier-1 language status for internal development, putting it alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript as one of the company’s best-supported programming languages. For reference, Tier-1 here…

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Turn complicated projects into manageable plans with this $50 Microsoft tool | Windows

TL;DR: Get things done more efficiently with this Microsoft Project Professional 2024 lifetime license for Windows, on sale now for just $49.97 (reg. $1,129.99) through Oct. 4. $49.97 $1,129.99 Save…

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Windows 11’s WinUI lacks a 26-year-old scroll shortcut even Electron has, and a Microsoft veteran only just learned it | Windows

Windows has had a lesser-known scrollbar shortcut since Windows 2000, where holding Shift and clicking the scrollbar jumps directly to that spot. Microsoft’s Raymond Chen, who is the unofficial historian…

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Nadella has lost the plot calling Copilot an OS again, it’s a web app on Windows 11 | Windows

Satya Nadella has once again called Copilot a “new OS for work” when it is clearly an app, and that too a web app. As spotted by Windows Latest, this…

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Tested: Microsoft cloned Outlook Classic’s look into a New Outlook theme, instead of building a native Windows 11 app | Windows

Microsoft won’t admit its New Outlook is terrible, but it knows plenty of users still prefer Outlook Classic. And to address this, Microsoft has just cloned Outlook Classic’s look and…

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These free and open-source apps can replace what Microsoft charges you $10 a month for | Windows

I’ve used Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 for years, so I’m well aware of how difficult they are to replace. But I’ve also watched free, open-source alternatives quietly get better,…

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I Sold NVIDIA, Google and Microsoft Over a $2 Trillion AI Gap. Was I Wrong? | Windows

A Reddit investor walked away from three of the biggest AI trade names in the market, armed with math showing the economics simply do not add up. Whether his timing…

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Microsoft’s X Account Hacked, Posts Clippy Crypto Memes | Windows

Microsoft’s X account was hacked yesterday to promote Clippy-themed cryptocurrency. As The Verge reports, the @Microsoft account, which has 13 million followers, reposted a tweet from a Clippy crypto account,…

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