Microsoft has opened registrations for its upcoming Inspire partner conference on July 19-20, and everyone can register for the free digital event and start building their own session agenda.

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Microsoft has opened registrations for its upcoming Inspire partner conference on July 19-20, and everyone can register for the free digital event and start building their own session agenda.
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Microsoft announced today that it will limit customer access to its facial recognition technologies in the name of responsible AI.
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HoloLens Chief Alex Kipman will leave Microsoft following an internal reorg that the company announced yesterday.
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Months after the invasion of Ukraine, Microsoft has finally acknowledged the inevitable and is shutting down its operations in Russia.
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Microsoft President Brad Smith said yesterday that the software giant will respect the efforts from its employees who want to unionize.
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Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Go 2 starts at $599 and is available for pre-order today ahead of its June 7 release.
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Microsoft has restricted hiring for its Windows, Office, and Teams groups, according to a report from Bloomberg.
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Despite the feel-good vibe of the Satya Nadella era, Microsoft’s upper executive ranks continue to drown in toxicity, a new report claims.
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Microsoft announced this morning that it was changing its cloud licensing policies to address complaints from European cloud providers.
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According to a Geekwire report, Microsoft will nearly double its annual budget for merit-based salary increases and make other compensation improvements.
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Microsoft has just put the wraps off new adaptive accessories designed to help people with disabilities to create a setup that fits their needs.
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The full session catalog for Microsoft’s Build 2022 conference, which is set to kick off on May 24, is now available.
BY Paul Thurrott with 22 Comments
A common passwordless sign-in sounds great. But only Microsoft has truly embraced passwordless sign-ins. Apple and Google have a lot more work to do.
BY Laurent Giret with 9 Comments
Apple, Google, and Microsoft announced will be expanding support for the passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium.
BY Paul Thurrott with 6 Comments
Microsoft has historically cherry-picked the data it chooses to share with the public at each earnings announcement, and this past quarter was no different.
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Microsoft announced today that it earned a net income was $16.7 billion on revenues of $49.4 billion in the quarter ending March 31.
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Microsoft has just opened registrations for its virtual Build 2022 developer conference, which will be free for everyone to attend on May 24-26.
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As part of a fruitless bid to get businesses to upgrade to Windows 11, Microsoft on Friday provided details about its own mass upgrade.
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This week in IT, Russell Smith examines whether Microsoft Autopatch could kill off Patch Tuesday for some businesses.
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Microsoft announced last week that it was increasing rewards for its Microsoft 365 Bounty Program by up to 30%.
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Microsoft has quietly started to update its session catalog for its upcoming Build 2022 conference on May 24-26.
BY Paul Thurrott with 16 Comments
With Microsoft now offering Windows on Azure, its critics alleged that the firm now makes it more expensive to do so on rival cloud platforms.
BY Paul Thurrott with 9 Comments
Google has lowered the prices of its Google Fi Unlimited plans and has made improvements to all Fi plans, including the non-Unlimited plans.
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Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents reports that Microsoft quietly withdrew its support for ACT, the trade organization it previously created.
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In its most insane attack yet against Microsoft, Google this week claimed that using Microsoft technologies made governments less secure.
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Microsoft has reportedly announced an internal reorganization earlier this week and created a new Android division under Chief Product Officer Panos Panay.
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Microsoft's Build 2022 conference will be on May 24-26 this year, and it will once again be a virtual event that's open to everyone.