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Everything that's happening in Windows, Azure, Copilot, and in Microsoft's productivity, dev and business process tools

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Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug

Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it

Northampton bus station screen bork

Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere

Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen

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IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested

Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope

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Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area

Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

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Bad review or complaint

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

Exit sign with clouds

Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

AI Creativity

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

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Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

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Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow

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Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI

Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?

US flag blowing away in the cloud

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds

Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises

Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

Russian bear

Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack

Second try's a charm?

Switch off

Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026

Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security

vintage ibm pc

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00

Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes

'Goodbye' in several languages on a wall at Hong Kong airport

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’

Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere

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UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

£125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live

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Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end

Glitch 8bit PAUSE

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now

Keep the patches away for as long as you like

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Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk

smashed spectacles

Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages

Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives

Frustrated woman using PC

Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for

Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand

Double trouble

Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either

Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa

Microsoft Windows and 'Tux' Linux logos next to each

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too

'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination

Office fight

UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial

Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure

Task Manager in Windows XP

Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it

Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.

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Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver

Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software

Someone frustrated at a laptop

Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes

Out-of-band or out of control?

infrastructure as cloudy candyfloss: Azure service mesh

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit

tired IT admin

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Starts new one on boot loops

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North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist

Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well'

confused developer

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs

Lifesaving ring floating in the sea

Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy

Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash

Locusts

Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs

One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 more

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Microsoft's Surface 6, normally a brisk peformer, can slow to a crawl for no apparent reason

Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout

Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US

slim down

Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket

Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25

Torture tools

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently

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Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum

One was patched almost 14 years ago

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Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try

AI gubbins still there, just tucked under 'Writing Tools'

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Microsoft attempts to untangle 'confusing' Windows Insider program

Controlled Feature Rollouts headed for the trash among other changes

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NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round

Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement

8 bit france

France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware