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StatCounter: Windows 11 Surges to 47.8% of Desktops as Windows 10 End Nears
Windows 11 now runs on 47.8% of the world’s desktop Windows PCs, according to StatCounter’s June 2025 data, putting Microsoft’s latest operating system neck-and-neck with Windows 10 for the...
Microsoft and Phison Dismiss Windows 11 Update as Cause of SSD Failures After Exhaustive Tests
{ "title": "Microsoft and Phison Dismiss Windows 11 Update as Cause of SSD Failures After Exhaustive Tests", "content": "After weeks of swirling community reports and internal investigations,...
Samsung Embeds Microsoft Copilot in 2025 TVs, Rolls Out One UI and 7-Year Support for Smart Appliances
At IFA 2025, Samsung abandoned the usual parade of individual product launches and instead presented a single, interconnected vision: the AI Home. The company announced it will embed Microsoft...
Microsoft's MAI Models: The First-Party AI Push to Outgrow OpenAI
Microsoft has deployed two first-party AI models — MAI-Voice-1 for speech generation and MAI-1-preview as a consumer-focused foundation model — marking a deliberate strategic shift away from...
Missouri AG Demands AI Giants Hand Over Chatbot Ranking Secrets in Trump Bias Probe
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an unprecedented legal broadside against artificial intelligence developers, sending formal demand letters to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta...
Microsoft’s MAI-Voice-1 Generates a Minute of Audio in Under a Second, Debuts in Copilot Today
Microsoft has quietly shipped two in-house AI models into consumer-facing Copilot experiences, marking a dramatic pivot from pure producer of cloud infrastructure for OpenAI to a builder of its own...
Microsoft Sued Over Windows 10 End-of-Life: AI Monopoly and E-Waste Concerns Mount
A Southern California man has filed a state lawsuit accusing Microsoft of deliberately orchestrating the end of Windows 10 support to force hardware upgrades, boost adoption of artificial...
Elon Musk’s xAI Files ‘Macrohard’ Trademark, Outlines AI Software Factory Fueled by Grok Ads
Elon Musk’s xAI dropped a trademark bomb on August 1, 2025, filing for MACROHARD—a name that openly tweaks Microsoft—covering downloadable software and AI services for agentic code generation,...
How the AGI Clause, GPT-5, and Open Weights Turned the Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Into a High-Stakes Rivalry
August 2025 delivered a jolt to enterprise IT buyers, developers, and regulators alike. In a matter of weeks, the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance—long viewed as the definitive blueprint for Big Tech AI...
Microsoft’s $75B Azure Run Rate Upends Software Peer Comparisons—and Valuation Multiples Still Miss the Mark
Microsoft’s fiscal 2025 disclosure that Azure and related cloud services have surged past $75 billion in annual revenue does more than mark a corporate milestone—it fundamentally rewrites the...
Microsoft's New Narrator Braille Viewer Lets Sighted Users See Braille Output—No Hardware Needed
Microsoft just eliminated a persistent barrier for sighted accessibility testers, teachers, and developers who need to follow Narrator’s Braille output. The August 29, 2025, Windows 11 Insider...
Microsoft Debuts In-House AI Models MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview, Shifting Dependence from OpenAI
Microsoft has officially entered the in-house foundation model arena, unveiling MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, two AI models built to power Copilot and Azure services while reducing the company’s...