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Trump’s Defiance of TikTok Ban Prompted Immunity Promises to 10 Tech Companies

Trump’s Defiance of TikTok Ban Prompted Immunity Promises to 10 Tech Companies

Mickey Vernon

US attorney general Pam Bondi has told at least 10 tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, that they ...

Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS

Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS

John Ray

Microsoft has finally crossed an important milestone for Windows 11, months ahead of Windows 10’s end of support cutoff date. ...

Xbox console games are suddenly showing up inside the Xbox PC app

Xbox console games are suddenly showing up inside the Xbox PC app

John Ray

Something strange is going on with Microsoft’s Xbox app on Windows. Over the past few days, the Xbox PC app ...

Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps

Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps

John Ray

Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app that needs to be updated. The software giant ...

Microsoft blames Apple for its delayed Xbox mobile store

Microsoft blames Apple for its delayed Xbox mobile store

John Ray

A year ago Xbox president Sarah Bond revealed that Microsoft was planning to launch a new Xbox mobile web store ...

Microsoft reveals its rejected Start menu redesigns

Microsoft reveals its rejected Start menu redesigns

John Ray

Microsoft is redesigning the Start menu in Windows 11 this month with a new, wider design that finally lets you ...

Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being ‘involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children’

Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being ‘involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children’

Craig Fedirighi

Bill Gates took aim at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk during an interview with The New York Times, saying ...

Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed

Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed

John Ray

Microsoft has revealed that it’s created a minute-long advert for its Surface Pro and Surface Laptop hardware using generative AI. ...

Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed

Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed

John Ray

Editor’s note: Ahead of Microsoft’s 50th’s anniversary, we’ve fixed the layout on this story — which we originally published in ...

DOGE’s Misplaced War on Software Licenses

DOGE’s Misplaced War on Software Licenses

Mickey Vernon

Because agencies sometimes get bulk or government-specific discounts, it can also be more affordable to buy software licenses on behalf ...

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