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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and many Xbox executives are set to defend its FTC case
Microsoft is sending CEO Satya Nadella, Xbox chief Phil Spencer, and many other Xbox executives to defend against its Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case for its proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition. Both Nadella and Activision CEO Bobby Kotick will appear in court this week to defend against a potential preliminary injunction against Microsoft’s giant $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard. If the FTC is successful in winning an injunction, then Microsoft has admitted in court filings that the deal could well be over.
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Microsoft on major Outlook and OneDrive outages: We were hacked
In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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Microsoft to pay $20M settlement for illegally collecting children's personal data
Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission accusing the tech giant of illegally collecting the personal information of children without their parents’ consent — and in some cases retaining it “for years.”
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Microsoft will stop supporting Cortana on Windows later this year
Microsoft is ending support for Cortana in Windows. In a support page spotted by XDA Developers and Windows Central, the company says it will “no longer support Cortana in Windows as a standalone app” starting later this year. Cortana’s discontinuation on Windows doesn’t come as much of a surprise. During its Build conference in May, Microsoft announced its new Windows Copilot tool, which will live in your taskbar and use AI to help you do everything — and more — that Cortana does once it’s widely released. That includes summarizing content, rewriting text, asking questions, adjusting your computer’s settings, and more.
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Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager
No need to open the Task Manager anymore for most people.
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Microsoft president compares AI to invention of printing press
Microsoft President Brad Smith said Sunday that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is “almost like” the invention of the printing press. “Well, in a sense, it’s…
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Microsoft and Goldman Sachs to drive web3 adoption with AI
Microsoft is in league with Goldman Sachs and other tech giants to develop a blockchain "network of networks." The project is likely to propel crypto adoption.
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Built-in ChatGPT-driven Copilot will transform Windows 11 starting in June
Copilot is coming alongside another batch of new Windows 11 features this year.
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Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it
Microsoft admits there are Windows 11 problems it just can’t fix
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Xbox Might Offer "Timed Slices" Of Games Or Games With Ads
Microsoft's Sarah Bond discussed new business models the company is looking at beyond Xbox Game Pass.
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EU decision clearing $69 bln Microsoft, Activision deal expected May 15, sources say
EU antitrust regulators are set to approve Microsoft Corp's $69 billion acquisition of Activision next week, with May 15 as the likeliest date, people familiar with the matter said.
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Helion announces world’s first fusion energy purchase agreement with Microsoft
Helion Energy (Helion) today announced an agreement to provide Microsoft electricity from its first fusion power plant. Constellation will serve as the power marketer and will manage transmission for the project. The plant is expected to be online by 2028 and will target power generation of 50 MW or greater after a 1-year ramp up period.
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Xbox Series S Suffers from VRAM Limitations, Just Like 8GB GPUS
It looks like the Xbox Series S is facing serious memory allocation issues in Borderlands 3, at least according to Reddit user u/jokekiller94 — who posted a screenshot of the game crashing on their Series S console with an "out of memory" error on the screen.
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There Is No World Where Starfield Is So Good People Sell Their PS5 And Move To Xbox, Phil Spencer Says
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has commented on the battle between Microsoft and rivals Sony and Nintendo, saying Xbox sits in third place and the idea that Microsoft could just make better games to gain marketshare doesn't hold up. Spencer said even if Starfield is the best game in the history of the world, that wouldn't be enough to help Xbox overtake PlayStation.
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Microsoft and AMD are reportedly teaming up to combat Nvidia’s AI dominance
Microsoft's Azure platform currently uses "tens of thousands" of Nvidia GPUs.
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Xbox Is Running Out Of Time To Get It Right
Redfall's rough launch shows patience for a Microsoft comeback is wearing thin
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Google, Microsoft CEOs called to AI meeting at White House
The chief executives of Alphabet Inc's Google , Microsoft , OpenAI and Anthropic will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and top White House officials to discuss key artificial intelligence (AI) issues on Thursday, said a White House official on Tuesday.
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Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in cloud gaming
The CMA has prevented Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming market, leading to reduced innovation and less choice for UK gamers over the years to come.
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Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing
Microsoft says it’s investigating reports of an Edge privacy issue.
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GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and Epic
On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients and for use in analyzing medical records while looking for trends.
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