Laurent Giret

Laurent is a Senior News Editor helping Paul Thurrott with daily tech news coverage since 2022. He's been writing about the technology industry for 10 years, mainly focusing on Big Tech companies. He also was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022 to 2023. You can follow Laurent on LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Laurent Giret’s Recent Posts

Microsoft Word for Windows

Word for Windows Now Uses ‘Merge Formatting’ Paste Option By Default

Microsoft is changing the default paste option in Word for Windows to make pasted content…

Microsoft Teams meetings

Report: EU Commission is Readying Antitrust Charges Against Microsoft Following Teams Investigation

Even though Microsoft recently agreed to decouple Teams from its Office 365 commercial plans globally,…

Windows 11 PCs

New Windows 11 Dev and Beta Builds Are Available With Minor Changes

Two new Windows 11 Insider builds bring a couple of minor changes to testers on…

Windows 11 Start menu AI suggestions

Microsoft May Soon Bring Widgets to the Windows 11 Start Menu

Microsoft could be planning to make the Windows 11 Start Menu extensible with widget-like adaptative…

Sea of Thieves PlayStation 5

Xbox’s Sea of Thieves Was the Most Downloaded PS5 Game in Europe in April

Xbox's Sea of Thieves was the most-downloaded PS5 game on the PlayStation Store in Europe…

OpenAI Sam Altman

OpenAI’s Google Search Competitor Could Be Announced on Monday

OpenAI could announce its Google Search competitor on Monday, just a day before Google kicks…

Apple iPad Pro Crush ad

Apple Apologizes for New iPad Pro Ad That Crushed Creative Tools

Apple issued yesterday a rare apology for its new iPad Pro ad that showed various…

Snipping Tool Emoji support

Snipping Tool is Getting Emoji Support and QR Code Scanning

A new Snipping Tool update that's rolling out to Windows Insiders adds emoji support and…

Xbox app on PC Compact Mode Jump Back In

Xbox App on PC Improves its Compact Mode With ‘Jump Back In’ Feature

Microsoft is improving the new Compact Mode on its Xbox app for PC with a…

xbox-series-x-s

Report: Xbox is Considering More Layoffs and Game Pass Price Increase

Microsoft is reportedly looking at more cost-cutting measures across its Xbox division, and there are…

Windows 11 2023 Update 23H2

Windows 11 Canary Build 26212 Adds Three Features From the Beta Channel

The Windows 11 Canary build 26212 brings three Windows Share improvements that Microsoft previously introduced…

Amazon Prime Video Ads Pause

Amazon Prime Video Will Soon Show Ads When Users Hit Pause

Amazon is planning to degrade the Prime Video experience with new interactive ad formats, including…

Copilot for Microsoft 365

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Will Soon Help Users Write Better Prompts

Copilot for Microsoft 365 will soon add new intelligent features to help customers write better…

OpenAI ChatGPT

Report: OpenAI is Working on Web Search Feature for ChatGPT

OpenAI is reportedly planning to add web search capabilities to ChatGPT to make the AI…

Apple M4 iPad Pro M2 iPad Air

Apple Announces M4 iPad Pros, M2 iPad Airs, and Apple Pencil Pro

Apple announced today new iPad Pro models with OLED displays and a brand new M4…

Xbox logo with games

Xbox is Shutting Down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and Two Other Studios

Microsoft is shutting down Redfall developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, and two…

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