Paul Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder, Dead at 65
Paul Allen, the man who co-created Microsoft with Bill Gates, one of the largest and most impactful technology…
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Employees Protest Microsoft Bid for Huge Military Contract, Saying It Could Cause 'Human Suffering'
Last week, Google dropped its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), a massive military cloud…
Bing and Yahoo Are Surfacing Some Extremely Racist Search Queries
In yet another case of a search engine finding itself in hot water over racist, sexist, or otherwise problematic search…
Microsoft Says It's Fixed That Windows 10 October Update Bug That Mass-Deleted Entire Directories
Over the weekend, Microsoft pulled the latest update build of Windows 10 (version 1809) after a bug that flew past its…
Microsoft Delays Latest Version of Windows 10 After Reports of Mass File Deletion
Microsoft has temporarily halted the rollout of its October 2018 update for Windows 10 (version 1809), writing in a…
You Can Watch Live Video From Microsoft's Underwater Data Center If That's Your Kind of Thing
Back in June, Microsoft built an underwater data center off the Scottish coast. The company has installed some…
Windows Will Now Use Machine Learning to Decide the Least Infuriating Time for a Forced Update
Windows 10, Microsoft’s current version of its operating has long tormented users with a hard-to-bypass policy of…
Walmart and Microsoft Team Up to Take Down Amazon
While the country is in the midst of Amazon’s mid-year discount fiesta and Jeff Bezos enjoys being crowned the richest…
Microsoft Says Skype Will Finally Get Call Recording This Summer
A new update for Skype has arrived, and with it comes the promise that we’ll finally be getting the option to record…
Microsoft Notepad Is Finally Getting an Update
It’s taken ages, but Microsoft is finally updating Notepad, its barebones text editor. This is the next in a recent…
Survey: Few Microsoft Staffers See Need to Cut Ties With ICE, Despite Thousands of Caged Kids
Should Microsoft end its federal contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)? This was the question…
Here's Even More Evidence of Microsoft's Rumored Dual-Screen Surface
For almost a decade, there have been rumors that Microsoft was developing a dual-screen device that would radically…
Microsoft 'Improves' Racist Facial Recognition Software
In a self-congratulatory move, Microsoft announced some major improvements today to its fundamentally biased facial…
Mouse and Keyboard Support May Finally Come to the Xbox One This Year
After years of promises, multiple reports claim that keyboard and mouse support is officially coming to Xbox One and…
Microsoft CEO Downplays ICE Contract in Email to Employees
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella downplayed his company’s work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a…
Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract
Microsoft employees are putting pressure on their management to cancel a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs…
Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract With ICE
Tensions are high within Microsoft, as new scrutiny is given to a partnership between the company’s Azure Government…
Microsoft Reportedly in Talks With Walmart to Build Checkout-Free Stores Like Amazon Go
Even though there’s only one Amazon Go location so far, it seems the existence of Amazon’s cashier-less, checkout-free…
More Surface Devices Are Reportedly Coming, and They’ve Got Cool Codenames
An update to Microsoft’s well-received line of Surface devices is no doubt already in the works, but news from Thurrott’…
Update Your PC Now to Fix This Pesky Cortana Security Flaw
Cortana, like all digital assistants, is supposed to make life easier by organizing your data and presenting you with…