Microsoft Edge is about to get more frequent updates, but don’t expect more features

Microsoft is switching Edge to a biweekly update schedule starting with Edge 152 on August 27, matching Chrome’s release cadence and delivering smaller but more frequent updates to users on the Stable channel.

Your Windows 11 PC can now natively run AI workloads, even if it lacks the Copilot+ badge

Microsoft’s latest AI decision could make millions of existing Windows PCs far more relevant than anyone expected.

Microsoft taps Alt Carbon in sign of India’s growing role in carbon removal

Alt Carbon said the agreement followed more than a year of scientific review and due diligence, with Microsoft requiring additional verification and data-sharing measures.

Xbox’s next era may start with a painful question about console prices

Xbox is putting unusual pressure on its own console business, and a new Xbox Wire post gives players a clear reason to watch for an Xbox price hike. Microsoft says storage and memory prices are climbing fast, while Xbox can’t currently make as many con…

The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday
The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday

Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher Microsoft threatened with criminal prosecution, has published a seventh Windows zero-day exploit. Called RoguePlanet, it grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 machines. The resear…

Microsoft’s president responds to the AI backlash with a 3,000-word essay and zero policy changes
Microsoft’s president responds to the AI backlash with a 3,000-word essay and zero policy changes

Microsoft President Brad Smith has responded to the wave of graduating students booing AI at commencement ceremonies with a 3,000-word essay that acknowledges their concerns and offers no concrete changes. Published on Microsoft’s official blog on Tues…

Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs
Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs

Microsoft’s Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans. The company has been preparing for the layoffs internally for weeks, with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hinting about “making hard choices” last month. Sources suggest the cuts could even involve a studio closure, or changes to the […]

Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers

New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO […]

Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns
Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns

Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it’s already causing concerns inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that Microsoft is limiting the use of Claude Fable 5 for employees because of Anthropic’s new data retention requirements. While Microsoft quickly rolled out Claude Fable 5 to its GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, I’m […]

Xbox exploring ‘radically different’ console business models
Xbox exploring ‘radically different’ console business models

The RAMageddon crisis has got Microsoft rethinking its Xbox console hardware business. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox strategy chief Matthew Ball have both revealed this week that Microsoft is reevaluating plans for its next-generation Project Helix console and exploring “radically different” console business models in the meantime. “We are working very hard to rethink […]