Microsoft officials are warning ongoing component shortages have affected and will continue to impact its Windows, Surface and Xbox console businesses.

Microsoft changes its paperclip emoji to look like its early virtual assistant, the object of much affection and frustration.

An Israeli group sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab said on Thursday, shedding light on the growing business of finding and selling tools to hack widely used software.

Microsoft is gifting its employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus. In an internal memo seen by The Verge, the software giant says this one-time bonus “is in recognition of the unique and challenging fiscal year that Microsoft just completed.”

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Microsoft’s payment testing system had a big loophole.

The tech giants end five years of quietly settling their differences.

The 2015 deal that saw Microsoft and Google agree not to sue each other has not been renewed, potentially because Microsoft appears to have escaped the US government's Big Tech legislation plans.

Pretty interesting predictions.

At the heart of these changes is a security push.

Windows 11 is arriving later this year as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users, but many are discovering that their hardware isn’t compatible. Microsoft has altered its minimum hardware requirements, and it’s the CPU changes that are most surprising here. Windows 11 will only officially support 8th Gen and newer Intel Core processors, alongside Apollo Lake and newer Pentium and Celeron processors.

The next version of Windows is a free upgrade.

The change reflects the success Nadella has had in the past seven years making Microsoft more prominent in technology and business altogether.

Microsoft employees slept in the software company’s data centers during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, an executive said on Wednesday. While many top technology companies directed their employees to work from home after Covid showed up in the U.S. in 2020, some employees were so important that they had to work on site.

The free update optimises the game for the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PS5, with each version getting a choice of performance options. PC owners will also get an upgrade that adds ray tracing on hardware that supports it, which was already announced previously.

Screenshots reveal new Start menu and taskbar design.

Make way for Windows 11

Xbox says it will continue to invest in and acquire new studios as it aims to release a new first-party game every three months. During a special E3 pre-brief featuring the Xbox and Microsoft executive team, the company laid out its vision for the future of the video games industry and for Xbox. Regular readers of GamesIndustry.biz will be familiar with the strategy, but it ultimately revolves around Game Pass and xCloud, which the company hopes will allow it move beyond the '200 to 300 million' audience on consoles to reach billions of consumers.

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Friday blamed "accidental human error" for its Bing search engine not showing results for the query "tank man" in the United States and elsewhere after users raised concerns about possible censorship around the Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary.

Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox Series X/S will support FidelityFX Super Resolution, AMD's competitor to Nvidia's DLSS tech.