When Microsoft announced it would be spending $10 billion on the next stage of its OpenAI partnership, | Technical details were lacking, but Microsoft sees OpenAI search running on Azure as transforming not only search, but technology's future.

Don't mind us, we'll just have a quick look for unsupported installs and then disappear, we pwoooomise

Microsoft could soon roll out ChatGPT-4 powered Bing search engine with faster response time.

It looks like Microsoft is gearing up to launch a major new version of Bing that integrates OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 technology in a way that will revolutionize searching the web. Multiple users have reported seemingly stumbling across a preview version of the new Bing earlier today before Microsoft quickly shut it down.

App store ads on other platforms may offer benefits to devs—but few for users.

PayPal is shedding around 2,000 jobs, or 7% of its workers, as it becomes the latest big tech firm to cut costs. The online payments company says it was forced to make the decision as it faces "the challenging macro-economic environment." PayPal's announcement follows tens of thousands of layoffs by technology giants in the last month alone.

Let’s just cut to the chase. Is Starfield delayed? Officially, no. And to be fair to Microsoft and Bethesda Game Studios, they already told us we wouldn’t be hearing anything out of Todd Howard’s next epic role-playing game during Wednesday’s Developer Direct showcase. There’s going to be a stand-alone showcase for Starfield at some point. It’s still one hell of an elephant not in the room, especially if two of the four games shown — Redfall and The Elder Scrolls Online’s Necrom expansion — are big Bethesda projects launching in May and June, respectively.

They may make a huge difference in how you use Windows, but the cloud will; be where the real AI/ML action happens.

One little network configuration foul-up led to one huge Microsoft outage.

The entire platform cannot be Xbox Game Pass.

Please, sir. I don't want a 365 subscription

Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s letting go of 10,000 employees through March 31 as the software maker braces for slower revenue growth. The company is also taking a $1.2 billion charge in the fiscal second quarter, which will result in a negative impact of 12 cents to adjusted earnings per share.

It appears Microsoft is likely it will receive an antitrust warning from European Union regulators, the European Commission, over its Activision Blizzard acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke with Reuters.

The Altair 8800 arguably launched Microsoft. Now [Dave Glover] from Microsoft offers an emulated and potentially cloud-based Altair emulation with CP/M and Microsoft Basic. One thing that makes it a bit odd compared to other Altair clones we’ve seen is that the emulator runs in a Docker environment and is fully cloud-enabled. You can interact with it via a PCB front panel, or a terminal running in a web browser.

The Logitech G Cloud and Razer Edge could be the first of many in a new class of handheld console.

Worker vote passes by supermajority

The Surface Earbuds are a weird product in Microsoft’s line of Surface devices. Now over two years old, and still available to buy at a close to launch price of $160(opens in new tab), the Surface Earbuds might be the worst “Surface” branded device you can buy brand new right now. They launched at a time when the wireless earbuds space was heating up and offered less than the competition while charging more.

Windows Insiders might get to test tabs in Notepad soon.

With Xbox Live Gold thrown in?

When every nanosecond of latency counts, improvements in the physical layer matter