Microsoft’s talks to lease Oracle cloud capacity have collapsed, report says
Microsoft’s talks to lease Oracle cloud capacity have collapsed, report says

A reported deal worth more than $3bn fell apart over a US-government security framework Oracle was unwilling to add, according to Business Insider. Oracle calls the account inaccurate. The story of the AI build-out is usually one of companies signing f…

Microsoft sued by shareholders over Azure slowdown and AI spending
Microsoft sued by shareholders over Azure slowdown and AI spending

The number that anchors the case is a single day. On 29 January, Microsoft shares fell about 10%, the company’s steepest one-day drop in nearly six years, wiping out roughly $357bn in market value after a quarterly earnings report the previous evening….

Microsoft’s newest AI agent wants to take entire projects off your plate

Microsoft is bringing Copilot Cowork to businesses worldwide, promising an AI agent that can complete complex, multi-step tasks while offering flexible pay-as-you-go pricing.

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop has a trackpad that rumbles like a game controller
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop has a trackpad that rumbles like a game controller

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro feature a redesigned trackpad with haptic feedback that vibrates when you interact with Windows 11. Snap a window to one side of the screen and you feel it. Align an image in PowerPoint and the trackpad co…

Microsoft finally fixes the Windows 11 Widgets and makes them far less distracting

Microsoft is shipping a “quiet by default” Widgets overhaul, and the sheer number of things being turned off says a lot.

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 now come with Snapdragon X2 chips
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 now come with Snapdragon X2 chips

Microsoft is launching new Surface Laptops and a Surface Pro with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processors. These are direct follow-ups to the Surface Laptops and Surface Pro from 2024 that launched with Snapdragon X1 chips and jumpstarted Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PC initiative with Windows on Arm. The new X2 Surfaces are available today. The Surface Pro […]

You may soon be able to split your Xbox purchases into installments

Code spotted on the Xbox website suggests Microsoft is preparing buy now, pay later integrations with Klarna and PayPal, letting users split the cost of games and hardware into installments.

Three Xbox studios are trying to buy their way out of Microsoft’s gaming restructuring
Three Xbox studios are trying to buy their way out of Microsoft’s gaming restructuring

Three Xbox-owned studios are in active negotiations to buy themselves back from Microsoft rather than face closure, according to Bloomberg. Compulsion Games in Montreal, Double Fine Productions in San Francisco, and Ninja Theory in Cambridge, England, …