Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow OSes01 May 2026 | 19
Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party SaaS30 Apr 2026 | 13
Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? OSes30 Apr 2026 | 117
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management On-Prem30 Apr 2026 | 6
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand Off-Prem30 Apr 2026 | 3
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack Second try's a charm? Patches29 Apr 2026 | 16
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security Security29 Apr 2026 | 10
Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00 Antiques code show Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes OSes29 Apr 2026 | 22
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work�� Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere Software29 Apr 2026 | 54
UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team £125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live Public Sector28 Apr 2026 | 21
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 54
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now Keep the patches away for as long as you like OSes27 Apr 2026 | 47
Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk Software24 Apr 2026 | 75
Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives Applications24 Apr 2026 | 28
Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand Applications23 Apr 2026 | 59
UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure PaaS + IaaS22 Apr 2026 | 4
Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee OSes21 Apr 2026 | 18
Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us. Devops20 Apr 2026 | 17
Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes Out-of-band or out of control? OSes20 Apr 2026 | 14
Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2026 | 74
Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades Starts new one on boot loops PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2026 | 13
North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' Cyber-crime16 Apr 2026 | 2
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs Software16 Apr 2026 | 19
Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash Security16 Apr 2026 | 25
Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 more Patches14 Apr 2026 | 23
Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US Personal Tech14 Apr 2026 | 25
Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25 Software14 Apr 2026 | 27
Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs Opinion Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently OSes14 Apr 2026 | 143
Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum One was patched almost 14 years ago Patches13 Apr 2026 | 7
Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try AI gubbins still there, just tucked under 'Writing Tools' OSes13 Apr 2026 | 22
Microsoft attempts to untangle 'confusing' Windows Insider program Controlled Feature Rollouts headed for the trash among other changes OSes13 Apr 2026 | 6
NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement Personal Tech13 Apr 2026 | 11
Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight FEATURE Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary data AI + ML12 Apr 2026 | 15
Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice AI + ML10 Apr 2026 | 30
Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2026 | 43
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue Security09 Apr 2026 | 95
Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools Software09 Apr 2026 | 7
Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedings Applications09 Apr 2026 | 5
Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a library Software08 Apr 2026 | 9
Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war On-Prem08 Apr 2026 | 35
Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens? Cyber-crime07 Apr 2026 | 30
Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2026 | 110
Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images About that partnership... AI + ML02 Apr 2026 | 15
Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong AI + ML02 Apr 2026 | 57
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners' Applications02 Apr 2026 | 105
Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working' In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft Applications02 Apr 2026 | 167
Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns How to avoid social engineering attacks? Employee training tops the list Research31 Mar 2026 | 33
UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms Off-Prem31 Mar 2026 | 11
Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue Weren't these supposed to be 'atypical'? OSes31 Mar 2026 | 13
GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash Updated Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager AI + ML30 Mar 2026 | 51
Microsoft Fabric Database Hub only a 'partial' solution for admins Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS Databases30 Mar 2026 | 1
Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures KB5079391 pulled after some devices hit errors, adding to recent quality woes OSes30 Mar 2026 | 50
To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer Bork!Bork!Bork! Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad days Bootnotes28 Mar 2026 | 24
Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion New campus to include on-site power generation On-Prem27 Mar 2026 | 14
Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program Cross-signed code gets the cold shoulder as Redmond tightens trust OSes27 Mar 2026 | 46
Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' AI + ML26 Mar 2026 | 18
Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs I'll just clear up that up, shall I? OSes25 Mar 2026 | 25
Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft Storage24 Mar 2026 | 14
Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds Opinion Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft OSes24 Mar 2026 | 79
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch OSes23 Mar 2026 | 31
CMA dithers on cloud probe as Microsoft's meter runs on taxpayer dime Every month of 'careful consideration' is another month Redmond laughs all the way to the bank Public Sector23 Mar 2026 | 6
Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11 'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues OSes23 Mar 2026 | 91