Category: Windows Latest

Microsoft 365 just got a price hike over continuous innovation, but Copilot is the AI tax on businesses

As if the price increases across nearly everything weren’t enough, Microsoft 365 subscribers are now staring down a price hike[...]

Microsoft caves after Teams AI backlash, will let you turn off Copilot, Facilitator and Recap mid-meeting

I asked Microsoft whether it has any plans to give presenters or organizers greater control over AI features in Teams,[...]

Excel on web is booming, but Google Sheets is still popular after years of Microsoft’s dominance

Excel on the web has grown 10 times over in usage over the last 6 years, says Brian Jones, who[...]

Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had

Dave Plummer, the retired Microsoft engineer who built Task Manager and helped ship Space Cadet Pinball, has recreated Notepad in[...]

Microsoft GitHub is burning free CDs of your public code to troll PlayStation, and XBOX should take notes

Less than two days after PlayStation confirmed physical game discs are going away, GitHub decided to bring one back. The[...]

PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony’s disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox

Sony confirmed on July 1 that physical disc production for new PlayStation games ends in January 2028. Every new title[...]

Watch: Leak from 2024 shows off Microsoft’s Copilot OS for PCs, and it’s nothing like Windows 11

In 2024 or earlier, Microsoft was working on a Copilot-focused operating system codenamed “Aion,” which is web-based and runs on[...]

Microsoft brags Copilot key has main character energy on Windows 11, but you can soon remap it

Microsoft posted a social media ad calling the Copilot key a button with “main character energy.” The timing is awkward,[...]

Intel’s major driver update for Windows 11 delivers performance boost, ships with Microsoft’s quality promise

When Microsoft announced plans to revive Windows 11 in 2026 with quality improvements, it also promised to make drivers more[...]

I built a Linux container on Windows 11 without Docker Desktop, and Docker users should pay attention

Windows 11 can now build, run, and manage Linux containers on its own, without Docker Desktop in the background. Microsoft[...]