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PowerToys 0.93 Brings Faster Command Palette, but the Missing Settings Search Is Coming in v0.94
Microsoft has rolled out PowerToys version 0.93, a significant update that overhauls the Settings dashboard with a Windows 11-style card layout and supercharges the Command Palette with ahead-of-time...
Elon Musk Unveils Macrohard: An AI-Native Software Company Built to Outmaneuver Microsoft
Elon Musk wants to build a software company that writes itself. On August 22, 2025, the billionaire announced Macrohard—a "purely AI software company" designed to simulate what a modern Microsoft...
Elon Musk's Macrohard Takes Aim at Microsoft with AI-Powered Code Factory
On August 22, 2025, Elon Musk tweeted a job call for a new company with a name that sounds like a joke and a mission that isn’t. “Join @xAI and help build a purely AI software company called...
Microsoft’s Open Source Journey: From Linux Kernel Contributions to Powering ChatGPT and Microsoft 365
Microsoft, once a skeptic of open source, now runs its most demanding workloads on it—including the nearly 700-million-user ChatGPT service and the containerized backbone of Microsoft 365. The...
PowerToys 0.100 Lands with Shortcut Guide and Dock Upgrades, but Settings Search Remains Elusive
Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.100, a milestone update that introduces an entirely new Shortcut Guide utility, a significantly enhanced Command Palette with an Extension Gallery and multi-monitor...
Microsoft Scraps Volume Discounts for Online Services, Costs Set to Surge for Enterprise Buyers
Microsoft will eliminate the longstanding waterfall discounts on its online services sold through volume licensing, a move that partners call the biggest change to Enterprise Agreements in more than...
Azure Revenue Rockets 39% to $75B Annual Run Rate as Microsoft Cloud Dominates Q4
Microsoft just dropped a bombshell quarterly report that reshapes the cloud landscape. For the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025, the company posted $76.4 billion in total revenue—an 18%...
Oracle VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Lets You Run Windows 11 Natively on Arm PCs
VirtualBox 7.2 has just entered public beta, and for the first time, the hypervisor can run Windows 11 on Arm natively — both as a host and a guest. Oracle’s latest preview build represents a...
GitHub CEO Exits as Microsoft Folds Platform into CoreAI, Heightening Developer Concerns
Thomas Dohmke, the chief executive who steered GitHub through its AI-powered renaissance, announced his resignation on August 11, 2025, setting off a seismic restructuring that will dissolve the...
Microsoft Drives GitHub Deeper Into AI Unit After CEO Resigns, Raising Governance Concerns
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and instead of appointing a new leader, Microsoft will fold the code-hosting platform more directly into its CoreAI division, ending the relative...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Exits Amid Microsoft’s Plan to Absorb the Platform into CoreAI
Thomas Dohmke confirmed today he will step down as GitHub’s CEO at the end of 2025, closing a chapter that saw the platform morph from a code‑hosting utility into the nerve center of...
GitHub CEO Defends AI Performance Reviews as ‘Fair Game,’ Steps Down Days Later
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has publicly endorsed a controversial Microsoft memo that ties employee AI usage to performance evaluations, calling it “totally fair game” — and just four days later...