Tag: Microsoft

May 16, 2023

On June 13, when the June 2023 security update lands, the Windows 10 21H2 Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro Workstation editions will lose servicing and support, meaning they will stop receiving security and preview updates to protect against security […]

May 2, 2023

Microsoft has been working for years on custom silicon for the data center. Recently, we learned the company was making progress on developing a custom neural processing unit for its AI needs, as services like ChatGPT are notoriously expensive to […]

May 1, 2023

The big three cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft, Google) all reported earnings last week, and the word on every cloud executive’s lips was optimization. To wit, “Customers continue to evaluate ways to optimize their cloud spending in response to these tough […]

April 27, 2023

Microsoft confirmed this week that the current version of Windows 10 dubbed 22H2 – is the final version. The company encourages anyone who wants new feature updates to transition to Windows 11, which holds a minority of Windows market share […]

April 21, 2023

Microsoft announced the release of Babylon.js 6.0, the new version of its real-time 3D engine for displaying 3D graphics in an HTML5-compatible web browser. Babylon.js 6.0 greatly improves the engine’s capabilities and performance, giving web developers a chance to exploit […]

April 17, 2023

Two months ago, Amazon didn’t make a single mention of AI on its earnings call (Google and Microsoft mentioned AI dozens of times each). This past week, by contrast, the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), could talk about […]

April 17, 2023

The Windows Insider program lets users test experimental features before Microsoft adds them to the stable build. The unstable Canary build has a potentially upcoming addition that has caught Insiders’ attention. The feature would finally allow users to force-quit applications […]

March 28, 2023

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Security Copilot in limited preview, marking its continued quest to embed AI-oriented features in an attempt to offer “end-to-end defense at machine speed and scale.” Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI and its own security-specific model, […]

March 27, 2023

Microsoft is now allowing Teams users to create a 3D avatar to use in meetings instead of being on camera or even needing a webcam. Originally announced in 2021, Microsoft has been testing these 3D avatars over the past year […]

March 13, 2023

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI trained ChatGPT on a supercomputer Microsoft built from tens of thousands of Nvidia A100 GPUs. Microsoft announced a new array utilizing Nvidia’s newer H100 GPUs this week. The challenge facing the companies started in 2019 after […]

February 14, 2023

Microsoft seems to be planning to add mouse gestures to Edge in order to give users a fresh set of options for performing common actions, despite indications in the past that this feature is not something that’ll be supported. Neowin(opens […]

February 13, 2023

The word on the street is that Google is changing its approach to AR and splitting efforts between two teams: Devices & Services and Platforms & Ecosystems. Devices & Services, led by Rick Osterloh, will be responsible for consumer hardware […]

February 8, 2023

Microsoft’s latest strategy for its .NET languages—C#, F#, and Visual Basic—emphasizes attributes including performance and interoperability, with the company remaining in charge of governance. The company posted the latest overviews of plans for the three languages on February 6. Big […]

February 7, 2023

Microsoft released the KB5021751 update in January, explaining that it was to “help” the company identify how many users were still running unsupported or soon-to-be-unsupported versions of the Office productivity suite. Microsoft was seemingly searching for info over users of […]

January 17, 2023

There are only two ‘Friday the 13th’s in 2023, and the first has already seen Microsoft scrambling to fix an issue that affected users’ Start menus and taskbars following a botched update to its Defender antivirus. Following the mishap, Microsoft […]

January 17, 2023

Four different Microsoft Azure services have been found vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security issues, which were discovered by Orca between October 8, 2022 and December […]

January 13, 2023

The US Congress has recently approved a $40 million spend on new Microsoft Hololens augmented reality headsets for the US Army following complaints from users. The so-called Integrated Visual Augmentation Systems (IVAS) are designed to pull data from various sensors […]

January 4, 2023

We’re only a few days into 2023, and already a new bug in Windows 11 has been frustrating some users, myself included. It’s all to do with File Explorer windows moving themselves to the front of your desktop when you’re […]

December 30, 2022

What kind of 2022 did Microsoft experience? The company made some big moves during the course of this year, including a gargantuan near-$70 billion acquisition – mired in controversy – and it also brought the first major feature update to […]

December 21, 2022

Microsoft is implementing a centralized notification feed for its Microsoft 365 suite of office software that it says will provide a “mix of relevant content” for the content users have access to, or that gets shared with them. Quietly announced(opens […]