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July 6, 2026
Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and more than 30 percent of the job losses are in the company's Xbox division. The significant gaming cuts will affect nearly every part of Xbox and a...
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July 6, 2026
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximat...
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July 1, 2026
Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection
Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell ...
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June 30, 2026
Xbox weighs canceling Blade game and shuttering Arkane
Microsoft is set to announce a wave of layoffs for its Xbox studios and employees next week. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the layoffs will lead to studio closures or ...
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June 10, 2026
Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs
Microsoft's Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft's plans. The company has been preparing for the layoffs internally for weeks, ...
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June 10, 2026
Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns
Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it's already causing concerns inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that Microsoft is limiting the use of Claude Fable 5 ...
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June 10, 2026
Xbox exploring ‘radically different’ console business models
The RAMageddon crisis has got Microsoft rethinking its Xbox console hardware business. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox strategy chief Matthew Ball have both revealed this week that Microsoft is reeva...
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June 10, 2026
Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month
Microsoft's Office 2019 apps for Mac will stop working next month, because the company isn't renewing a certificate that validates Office licenses. Owners of Office 2019 for Mac are being warned th...
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June 8, 2026
Apple drops support for a long list of iPads and Apple Watches with latest OS updates
I hope you have a modern Apple Watch or iPad, because otherwise watchOS 27 and iPadOS 27 won't run on your device. Apple often drops support for older devices with its latest software updates, but ...
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June 8, 2026
Xbox exclusives are back and more complicated than ever
Two years ago, when Microsoft first revealed that it was bringing four Xbox-exclusive games to the PS5 and Nintendo Switch, it made the announcement far more complicated than necessary. That's not ...
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June 7, 2026
Microsoft’s Xbox 25th anniversary console comes in translucent green
Microsoft has created a special edition Xbox Series X to celebrate 25 years of the console. The Xbox 25th-anniversary console takes design cues from the original Xbox console, with both the console...
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June 4, 2026
Windows is back on the Microsoft menu
I can't remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that's exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nadella didn't address the issues Microso...
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June 3, 2026
A first look at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface Dev Box
Microsoft has two new Surface devices arriving later this year, both powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chips. I got a chance to take a closer look at both the Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark...
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June 2, 2026
Microsoft’s next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing
Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft...
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June 2, 2026
Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw
Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, ...
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June 2, 2026
Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t
Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it's now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia's ...
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June 2, 2026
Microsoft’s new developer-optimized Windows embraces Linux even more
Microsoft is kicking off its Build developer conference today with a promise of making Windows a trusted platform for development. As the company continues to focus on performance and reliability f...
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June 1, 2026
Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build
Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developer...
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May 29, 2026
Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors
It's the world's worst kept secret that Nvidia is about to announce its own Arm-powered laptop chips at Computex this weekend, and now Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm are all openly teasing the announce...
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May 29, 2026
Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’
I pondered the other day what's next for Microsoft's Surface PC lineup, and it looks like we're about to find out. Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri has just teased "something new is coming ...
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May 28, 2026
Call of Duty: Warzone is dropping PS4 and Xbox One support later this year
Activision is planning to drop support for PS4 and Xbox One consoles in Call of Duty: Warzone later this year. Players will need to upgrade to a PS5 or Xbox Series S / X console to continue playing...
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May 28, 2026
What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs?
Nearly 10 years ago I reviewed my favorite Surface device. Microsoft hand-delivered its Surface Studio all-in-one PC to me, and I was hooked from the moment I switched it on. It had a beautiful flo...
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May 28, 2026
Kia’s flagship EV has a battery problem
I first realized there was an issue with Kia's flagship EV9 when I tried to unlock my car last year. The hulking three-row SUV was sitting on my driveway completely dead. The key didn't work, the a...
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May 26, 2026
Nvidia has retired its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years
Nvidia announced more than two years ago that it was working to replace its Control Panel app on Windows with a new Nvidia app. After porting across various features to the Nvidia app, Nvidia is an...
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May 22, 2026
Microsoft’s consumer marketing chief to leave next year
Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, is leaving the company after 35 years. Mehdi announced his departure in an internal memo on Thursday, noting...
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May 22, 2026
Microsoft is letting Office users remove an annoying Copilot button
Microsoft is rolling out Office app updates next week that allow users to disable a floating Copilot button. The button appeared in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in recent weeks, and floats above the...
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May 21, 2026
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-s...
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May 20, 2026
Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball to lead strategy
Microsoft has recruited game industry analyst Matthew Ball as Xbox chief strategy officer. Ball publishes an annual state of video gaming report, which is a popular read across the game industry, a...
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May 19, 2026
Microsoft launches Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 with Intel chips
Almost exactly two years ago, Microsoft introduced Arm-powered versions of the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7, with Intel models not ready until more than six months later. This time around Mi...
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May 19, 2026
Xbox fans want exclusives, more backward compatibility, and free online multiplayer
Microsoft launched a new Xbox Player Voice portal yesterday, aiming to collect feedback from fans and "make it more visible." It certainly hasn't taken long for Xbox fans to make their feedback ver...
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