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UK CMA Clears Microsoft Partnership with OpenAI

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today that it has closed its investigation…

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Microsoft Dragon Copilot is a New AI Assistant for Clinical Workflow

Microsoft's new Dragon Copilot assistant for clinical workflows leverages technology from Nuance Communications, a speech…

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Russinovich: Microsoft is “All-in” on Rust (Premium)

Rust may be controversial in Linux, but there's no such controversy at Microsoft, which has…

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Microsoft Calls on U.S. to Ease AI Export Restrictions

Microsoft has asked the White House to ease the U.S. government's restrictions on AI chip…

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Online Accounts 2025: Single Sign-In (SSO) (Premium)

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce my reliance on Big Tech services that…

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Microsoft Reportedly Canceled Some Planned Datacenter Capacity

Microsoft still plans to spend at least $80 billion on AI infrastructure in its current…

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Online Accounts 2025: First Steps (Premium)

20 years ago, I purchased two 1 TB external hard drives so I could replicate…

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Tech Nostalgia: Microcomputer + Software (Premium)

Most are familiar with the story of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, BASIC, the MITS…

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Microsoft’s Build 2025 Conference Will Be on May 19-22

Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference will return to Seattle this year on May 19-22, and…

Microsoft 365 Subscribers Will Soon Lose Access to Free VPN

Microsoft has quietly announced that it’s discontinuing the free VPN that was available with its…

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Esports Platform Start.gg is Parting Ways With Microsoft

Start.gg, an online tournament platform that Microsoft acquired back in December 2020 has just reclaimed…

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Microsoft Earnings Analysis: FY25 Q2 (Premium)

And now, for something completely different. This quarter, an almost exclusive focus on AI and…

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Microsoft Makes DeepSeek’s R1 Available Via Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

Microsoft is making DeepSeek's R1 AI model available for developers via Azure AI Foundry and…

Intel-Powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for Business

Microsoft Launches Intel-Powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for Business

New Intel-powered versions of Microsoft's Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for business customers…

Microsoft Revenues Up 12 Percent to $69.6 Billion

Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $24.1 billion on revenues of $69.6…

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Nvidia, Sam Altman, and Satya Nadella React to China’s DeepSeek R1 AI Model

The recent surge of the potentially disruptive R1 AI model by Chinese startup DeepSeek is…

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