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Microsoft is the maker of Windows, Office, Xbox, Surface devices, and the Azure cloud platform, and a leading player in AI through Copilot. Coverage here includes software updates, hardware launches, gaming news, and the company’s deepening AI partnerships. Follow this tag to keep up with one of tech’s most influential companies.
Files in a new Xbox PC app update reveal the Mythic Achievement, Xbox’s answer to the PlayStation Platinum trophy. It unlocks on all base-game achievements, ignores DLC, is worth zero Gamerscore, and comes with a 15 second fanfare.
Microsoft’s newly published patent describes pausing a game after a boss fight or loading screen to show an ad, then rewarding players with more ad-free playtime. Here’s what the filing actually says, and why it lands right as Xbox tests free ad-supported cloud streaming.
A $1,000 stake in Microsoft in September 2016 would be worth roughly $8,900 today, or closer to $9,900 with dividends reinvested. Here is the math, what actually drove it, and the three things these posts never mention.
Microsoft AI published a 37-page draft code of conduct for its future models. The most quoted line says they will never resist human shutdown. Rules like that get written after somebody has seen the alternative.
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers ratified a historic union contract with Microsoft that forces the company to discuss, evaluate, and bargain before deploying AI, alongside big raises, severance, and recall rights.
Microsoft AI shipped MAI-Transcribe-2 at $0.10 per audio hour, a 72 percent cut, and says it beats OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on accuracy and speed. The price has an expiry date.
Microsoft has started merging its consumer and business Copilot apps into one, and on August 18 it retires Podcasts, consumer Deep Research, Group Chat and Mico. Here is exactly what disappears, what survives, and which one has no export button at all.
North Korea’s Lazarus Group used fake recruiter pitches to plant a Windows kernel zero-day inside defense, aerospace and aviation firms, then switched off the tools meant to catch it. Microsoft patched CVE-2026-68820 on August 11.
Mustafa Suleyman says AI that merely seems conscious is near. His SCAI argument, the AI psychosis concern, the Anthropic dispute and new rules.
The COPILOT function, Agent Mode, checkboxes, Python in Excel and IMPORTCSV: what each new Excel feature does and who can use it now.