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Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code
Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments…
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2025 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2…
Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform f…
Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Lauren Feiner / The Verge : Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news co…
Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model; Ultimate subs will be limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model; Ultimate subs will be limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming…
Microsoft will start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as part of a shift in its reporting structure, under which Azure revenue grew 42% YoY to $29.42B in Q4 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC : Microsoft will start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as part of a shift in its reporting structure, under which Azure revenue grew 42% YoY to $29.42B in Q4…
Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices
Microsoft says ongoing issues causing games to crash or fail to launch after installing the August 2026 Windows updates may be caused by peripherals with RGB lighting.…
Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu
Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory…
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you…
Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with its website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; GitHub confirmed the outage at 13:40 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer : Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with its website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; GitHub confirmed the outage …
Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.…
Filings and sources: Microsoft shuttered 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China in the past five years, amid China's push for domestic software (Reuters)
Reuters : Filings and sources: Microsoft shuttered 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China in the past five years, amid China's push for domestic software — Microsoft once r…
Trevor Noah Hosted the Made by Google Event: But Why?
Google tapping a former Daily Show anchor to be a tech show host might seem like a curveball, but it makes more sense than it seems.…
Windows 10 users are getting locked out of new Microsoft 365 features in a bid to push for Windows 11
Will it convince people to upgrade?…
Microsoft's Weather app can eat up to 1.2GB of RAM just sitting open
MSN Weather is the standard weather app included with Windows 11. It provides a detailed set of tools, including live radar, hourly forecasts, wind and precipitation data,...…
Microsoft Word circa 1990 can now run on modern Windows, thanks to a new native port
Developer Justin Marshall recently ported Word for Windows 1.1a to modern Windows systems. The open-source conversion draws on the source code of the original program, which Micros…
Microsoft confirms OneDrive Photos app was rolled out to millions of Windows 11 PCs by mistake, fix incoming
In an X post, Microsoft's EVP of Apps and Agents, Jeff Teper, noted that OneDrive Photos is an incubation project that was meant to be tested with...…
Microsoft reportedly pours fuel on PC pricing flames as it implements a 'significant increase' for Windows 11 licenses
What RAM crisis? Microsoft reportedly hikes cost of Windows 11 for computer makers, rubbing software salt into PC pricing wounds.…
Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil its next-gen Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as soon as September, and is negotiating with TSMC to make 300K+ in 2027 (The Information)
From The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Windows 11 is broken — and Microsoft is fixing the wrong things
Is it time for Windows 12, and could it fall into the same traps?…
Microsoft says it's improving your 365 subscription by deleting Publisher from it in two month's time
It's for your own good.…
Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones - yegors/deGDID…
Blizzard is now reportedly Microsoft's top studio, according to leaked email
"This past year has marked our third highest fiscal for top line revenue in Blizzard's history."…
This VPN firm has created a way to stop Microsoft's hidden tracking tool on Windows — although it will break some key cloud services
A VPN company just found a way to block Microsoft's hidden Windows tracker without touching your internet connection…
x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11
The Computer History Museum made the Word 1.1a source code publicly available in 2014, now it has been ported to 64-bit Windows.…
Microsoft Loop is an underrated productivity gem that you are not using
The unsung hero in Microsoft’s productivity suite…
The Microsoft tool that makes complicated workflows easier is on sale for a flat $44.97
Microsoft Visio 2024 helps turn complicated information into clear, professional diagrams, from business workflows and organizational charts to network maps and floor plans. A life…
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
Port of Microsoft Word 1.1a to x64 with extra features for research purposes. - jmarshall23/msword…
Microsoft accidentally rolled out a OneDrive app to everyone's PCs, and there's no simple way to fix it
Microsoft didn't mean to spread the app as far as it did.…
From Word to Excel, score seven Microsoft Office apps for just $20 (MSRP $229)
Save big on tools you’ll actually use with this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows license, now only $19.97 (MSRP $229).…
Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
By Stevie Bonifield / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
No more uBlock Origin on Edge.…
My favorite alternative to Microsoft Word is not Google Docs, it is a surprisingly powerful editor
My documents no longer need Microsoft Word.…
I read Microsoft's Windows 11 'quality' progress report - and the subtext says it all
Microsoft's latest progress report details much-needed Windows 11 improvements in reliability, performance, stability, and usability. But here's what else I see.…
Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard
Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation…
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account
Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data…
This is getting embarrassing now — Microsoft sabotages its good work in fixing Windows 11 with this baffling OneDrive Photos app misfire
Microsoft needs to sort out Windows Update — we don't want OneDrive apps shoved onto our PCs without asking.…
Microsoft has pulled a small but vital Teams update which could have let users ignore all those annoying work chats for good - I just hope it comes back soon
It seems like an odd move…
This $49 Microsoft app is like having a project manager in your pocket
Keep your projects on track with this Microsoft productivity tool.…