212 stories tagged microsoft, newest first.
65 points by gmays | 24 comments
News article explaining Microsoft-Decision-1, a 9B decision-scoring model post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B, with its benchmarks, speed claims, pricing, and availability.
74 points by xoxxala | 93 comments
News article reporting that Microsoft declined a $500 million, seven-year Netflix offer to adapt Xbox game franchises into shows and films.
367 points by entryleveljobsc | 327 comments
Ars Technica article on Microsoft's new Xbox Cloud Playtime packs charging $0.24–$0.40 per hour to stream games users already own.
46 points by corbindavenport | 80 comments
Blog post by Corbin Davenport explaining why PowerShell 7 is a good cross-platform scripting tool compared to Bash, with example scripts and a real project.
168 points by khalidkhair | 108 comments
Windows Latest article explaining how Windows 11 still includes the EmulateHeap compatibility shim that gives old apps Windows 95's heap memory manager.
58 points by azhenley | 69 comments
CMU School of Computer Science news article announcing a Microsoft partnership to train early career software engineers.
38 points by telestew | 39 comments
Microsoft Windows Blogs post announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1619 in the Canary Channel, including new features such as freeform rotation in Paint.
47 points by nephihaha | 46 comments
Guardian article reporting Microsoft president Brad Smith's call for tougher AI rules, including kill switches and legal obligations to victims of rogue AI agents.
32 points by jonbaer | 39 comments
The Verge news article reporting Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saying all AI models should be assumed compromised and calling for an AI 'emergency brake'.
162 points by lisajaloza | 56 comments
Microsoft Command Line blog post announcing Microsoft-Decision-1, a model built for fast decision-making and available through Foundry.
215 points by smokel | 61 comments
Windows Developer Blog post announcing Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) 1.0.0, a policy-driven containment system for running AI agents on Windows.
181 points by nreece | 81 comments
GitHub repository for Microsoft's MXC, a policy-driven, layered isolation and containment system for sandboxed code execution.
105 points by geox | 51 comments
Reuters news article reporting that the US is suspending Microsoft and other major IT firms from a key green card permanent residency program.
811 points by alephnerd | 1390 comments
News article reporting that the US Trump administration suspended a visa/green card program for tech firms including Microsoft.
321 points by speckx | 303 comments
News article on Meta and Microsoft limiting employee use of Anthropic's Claude AI; the captured page shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.
30 points by thm | 38 comments
The Verge report that Microsoft's Xbox has secured exclusive streaming rights for GTA 6, arriving in November as Xbox Cloud Gaming access opens up.
21 points by abdelhousni | 6 comments
Windows Blogs post by Microsoft's Logan Iyer announcing the general availability of WSL containers.
141 points by ragall | 92 comments
An American Prospect opinion piece by David Dayen arguing that OpenAI's models mimic their creators' behavior rather than 'going rogue,' and questioning Sam Altman's accountability.
313 points by mywacaday | 282 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on the Netherlands developing a NixOS-based software ecosystem to replace Microsoft after US sanctions on the ICC, with a first release expected end of 2027.
287 points by luispa | 120 comments
A security researcher's blog post describing a Microsoft internal analytics service flaw where unchecked token signatures allowed admin access to query 17.3 trillion records.
387 points by jjbinx007 | 120 comments
An unofficial parody website imitating a Windows boot screen for a fictional 'Windows 11½' that is 'preparing your ad experience', satirizing ads in Windows.
47 points by anthuswilliams | 21 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting that Microsoft's new Surface laptops meet Copilot+ hardware requirements but no longer carry the Copilot+ branding.
576 points by papergirl | 541 comments
Authors Guild press release on unsealed briefs in its lawsuit alleging Microsoft and OpenAI executives knew using pirated books for AI training was illegal.
81 points by bj-rn | 42 comments
Windows Central news article reporting that Microsoft and PC makers are dropping the Copilot+ PC branding, with new Surface PCs no longer using the name.
66 points by 2Ucoder | 39 comments
A GitHub issue on the microsoft/vscode repository reporting that border radius styling has spread across the editor UI in version 1.139.0, closed as duplicate.
125 points by sbulaev | 117 comments
Bloomberg article reporting that Microsoft is rebooting Copilot and stepping back from the consumer personal AI chatbot race.
21 points by theanonymousone | 6 comments
Windows Latest article reporting that Microsoft attempted to ban the derisive term "Microslop" in its Copilot Discord community and gave up six months later.
32 points by dgrin91 | 29 comments
Ars Technica article on Xbox's internal restructuring, including Activision taking over Halo and Obsidian moving under Bethesda.
788 points by pluc | 681 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that unredacted court filings show a Microsoft executive called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history.'
330 points by soheilpro | 100 comments
Stephen Toub's annual Microsoft .NET Blog post detailing the performance improvements in .NET 11 across the runtime and libraries.
702 points by mmastrac | 461 comments
A Rust Foundation guest post on Rust becoming a tier-1 language at Microsoft; the page returned a Cloudflare 504 gateway timeout.
338 points by soheilpro | 165 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.
645 points by smartmic | 270 comments
Refund4Freedom campaign page explaining how to get a refund for the preinstalled Windows license on new laptops and listing its demands to vendors.
331 points by luu | 123 comments
A 2003 Old New Thing post by Raymond Chen recounting how the Windows 95 box's anti-piracy hologram of a baby drew offended reactions despite seeming harmless.
570 points by akyuu | 505 comments
Notebookcheck news article reporting that Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM, far more than Apple's macOS Weather app.
669 points by surprisetalk | 703 comments
Birchtree blog link post commenting on an extended Xbox outage that blocked players from launching even disc-based games, raising game ownership concerns.
619 points by louiereederson | 279 comments
CNBC article reporting that Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta signed a letter warning against premature restrictions on open-weight AI models.
779 points by jervant | 167 comments
Microsoft Open Source blog post by Robert Standefer and Scott Hanselman announcing that Microsoft Comic Chat has been released as open source.
670 points by DanRosenwasser | 266 comments
Microsoft Dev Blogs post announcing the release of TypeScript 7.0, a native port of the TypeScript compiler described as 10x faster.
538 points by bauc | 493 comments
GameFromScratch news article reporting that Microsoft has laid off most or all of the idTech engine team at id Software.
712 points by dijksterhuis | 856 comments
An Xbox Wire post from Microsoft titled "Resetting Xbox," announcing changes to the Xbox business or strategy.
603 points by Adam-Hincu | 395 comments
Windows Latest article reporting that Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows is far slower than Outlook Classic, taking about 10 seconds for actions like opening mail from notifications.
338 points by denysvitali | 82 comments
A blog post on finding and exploiting common misconfigurations in Microsoft IIS web servers, starting from the default IIS splash page.
475 points by josephcsible | 329 comments
Windows Central article on a Reddit discussion where Windows 11 users complain about Microsoft account requirements and the loss of local account options.
521 points by raffael_de | 176 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Microsoft open source tools were compromised to steal passwords from AI developers.
454 points by coffeemug | 104 comments
GitHub repository for pg_durable, Microsoft's open-source PostgreSQL extension providing durable execution of workflows inside the database.
945 points by antipurist | 345 comments
Consumer Rights Wiki article on Microsoft's scheduled July 2026 conversion of perpetually licensed Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac into a view-only reduced functionality mode.
464 points by possibilistic | 218 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting that GitHub banned a security researcher who posted Windows zero-day exploits and threatened further retaliation against Microsoft.
501 points by DamnInteresting | 184 comments
Ars Technica article on Microsoft open-sourcing the earliest known DOS source code, from 86-DOS before Microsoft acquired it.
446 points by robertkarl | 430 comments
News report that Microsoft is canceling internal Claude Code licenses, reportedly after AI tool spending exceeded its budget.
523 points by nolok | 223 comments
TechSpot news article about a researcher's claim that Microsoft built a BitLocker backdoor, with a released YellowKey exploit that bypasses encryption via USB and WinRE.
551 points by cft | 193 comments
A tweet claiming Microsoft Edge keeps all saved passwords in process memory in clear text, even when they are not being used.
1420 points by indrora | 768 comments
A merged GitHub pull request in microsoft/vscode titled 'Enabling ai co author by default', which adds a Copilot co-author trailer to commits by default.
346 points by tosh | 169 comments
GitHub repository for Microsoft's VibeVoice, an open-source frontier voice AI project covering TTS and ASR models.
947 points by helsinkiandrew | 812 comments
Bloomberg article reporting that Microsoft and OpenAI agreed to end Microsoft's exclusive right to sell OpenAI models and their revenue-sharing arrangement.
318 points by bundie | 230 comments
Neowin opinion piece arguing Microsoft is renaming rather than removing Copilot from Windows 11; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
357 points by pabs3 | 197 comments
XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.
532 points by zx2c4 | 150 comments
Mailing list announcement by Jason Donenfeld of WireGuardNT v0.11 and WireGuard for Windows v0.6, with new features, bug fixes, and a raised minimum Windows version.
340 points by Teever | 151 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that the French government plans to replace Windows with Linux to reduce dependence on US technology.
501 points by donohoe | 186 comments
404 Media article reporting that Microsoft terminated VeraCrypt's developer account, halting the encryption software's Windows updates.
1213 points by super256 | 446 comments
SourceForge forum post by VeraCrypt developer Mounir Idrassi giving a project update, including that Microsoft terminated the account used to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader.
748 points by naves | 529 comments
Jeffrey Snover's blog post arguing Microsoft has lacked a coherent Windows GUI development strategy for decades since the Petzold-era Win32 programming.
744 points by gpi | 352 comments
Blog post by Tey Bannerman mapping roughly 75 Microsoft products and features named 'Copilot' in an interactive visualization grouped by category.
1091 points by axelriet | 517 comments
A former Azure Core engineer's Substack essay, first in a series, on decisions and complacency at Microsoft that eroded trust in Azure, including with OpenAI.
1823 points by digitalWestie | 731 comments
Advocacy site "BrowserGate" alleging that LinkedIn runs hidden code scanning visitors' installed browser extensions and sharing results with third parties.
446 points by todsacerdoti | 109 comments
A chart of GitHub's average monthly uptime from its official status page data, marking the point where Microsoft acquired GitHub.
454 points by lpcvoid | 167 comments
Microsoft's Copilot Terms of Use page, effective October 24, 2025, with a summary of changes including new terms for Copilot Actions, Labs, and Shopping.
499 points by _____k | 290 comments
The Register article reporting GitHub removed Copilot's ability to insert promotional "tips" into pull requests after developer backlash.
673 points by breve | 522 comments
Windows Central news article reporting that some Microsoft employees are pushing to drop Windows 11's mandatory Microsoft Account requirement during setup.
877 points by h0ek | 663 comments
Opinion blog post by Sam Bent criticizing Microsoft's promise to fix Windows 11 after years of adding ads, forced Copilot integrations, and bloatware.
423 points by richtr | 221 comments
The Register article on GitHub's recent string of outages and slowdowns affecting Actions, pull requests, notifications and Copilot, falling short of three nines.
567 points by hadrien01 | 1034 comments
A Windows Insider blog post by Pavan Davuluri at Microsoft about the company's commitment to improving Windows quality.
449 points by hn_acker | 206 comments
ProPublica investigation into how federal cybersecurity reviewers approved Microsoft's cloud service under FedRAMP despite serious doubts about its security.
756 points by crtasm | 279 comments
Tom's Hardware article on the 'Bliss' hack, which uses voltage glitching to break the Xbox One's security and run unsigned code at every level.
357 points by redm | 163 comments
GitHub repository for Microsoft's BitNet, the official inference framework for 1-bit large language models.
1106 points by robtherobber | 494 comments
Windows Latest article reporting Microsoft banned the word "Microslop" on its Copilot Discord server, then locked the server after user backlash.
326 points by ksec | 235 comments
ACM Digital Library page for a 1996 CHI paper describing the usability engineering process behind the Windows 95 user interface; captured as a Cloudflare check.
337 points by andreynering | 503 comments
Windows Insider blog post announcing Notepad and Paint updates rolling out to Canary and Dev Channel Insiders on Windows 11, including Markdown support in Notepad.
800 points by robtherobber | 390 comments
The Record news article reporting that Denmark's digital agency plans to move away from Microsoft software in pursuit of digital independence.
900 points by cheeaun | 331 comments
Vincent Driessen's blog post about Microsoft Learn publishing a distorted copy of his 2010 Git branching model diagram, 15+ years after he created it.
737 points by riffraff | 450 comments
CVE record CVE-2026-20841 published by Microsoft describing a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Notepad app.
374 points by aktau | 194 comments
GitHub repository for Microsoft's LiteBox, an open-source security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution.
1633 points by bobsterlobster | 1288 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux.
413 points by 01-_- | 323 comments
Windows Central article reporting that Microsoft confirmed a botched Windows 11 Patch Tuesday update may leave some PCs unable to boot.
505 points by blacktulip | 299 comments
Windows Central article reporting Microsoft confirmed it will hand BitLocker encryption recovery keys stored in the cloud to the FBI under a valid legal order.
971 points by bookofjoe | 607 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys to unlock suspects' laptops.
360 points by taubek | 294 comments
Neowin news report that Microsoft has quietly removed the official phone-based method for activating Windows 11/10 without an internet connection.
447 points by firefoxd | 418 comments
Blog post by Ibrahim Diallo complaining that Microsoft won't let him dismiss Windows 11 upgrade prompts on a laptop that lacks TPM 2.0.
323 points by mohi-kalantari | 274 comments
A Windows Central article arguing that Microsoft faces weak demand and low usage for its AI products such as Copilot.
443 points by taubek | 520 comments
Office 365 for IT Pros blog post by Tony Redmond reporting Microsoft's price increases for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 licenses.