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Chris Harper - Wed, Jun 10, 2026
Another month, another Patch Tuesday for Windows users. This one's a bit bigger than usual, though: Microsoft has released a record-breaking Windows 11 patch addressing a whopping 206 vulnerabilities. The former record-holder was this past...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Jun 10, 2026
Just days after Microsoft unveiled an exciting slate of games and celebrated the 25th anniversary of Xbox, the gaming division’s CEO, Asha Sharma, addressed its next-generation console. In an interview with Fortune, Sharma discussed the...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jun 08, 2026
As Xbox celebrates 25 years of gaming, recently installed CEO Asha Sharma is working to reinvigorate the brand, and according to Asha, they're full speed ahead with its next-generation Project Helix console. As part of this effort, the...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jun 08, 2026
Xbox gamers have a lot to look forward to after Microsoft had its biggest event of the year, where fans were treated to a slew of games including a new entry in long running Gears of War franchise. It also served as an opportunity for the...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jun 08, 2026
Windows Search has been a sore spot for users going on years, and the frustration is easy to explain. At some point, Microsoft decided that searching for a local app or a buried folder was also a great opportunity to serve up Bing...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 08, 2026
It has been nearly 25 years since Microsoft introduced its OG Xbox console, and in celebration of the Xbox brand's silver anniversary, Microsoft is rolling out a limited edition Xbox Series X25 designed in a translucent green chassis...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Jun 04, 2026
Apple device owners using older versions of Microsoft Office, including Office 2019, Office 2021 and Microsoft 365, may have to contend with reduced functionality starting on July 13, 2026. This means that users will be unable to edit...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jun 04, 2026
The AI expansion explosion has been colliding with environmental limits, forcing tech giants to rethink the massive resource footprints of their infrastructure. At the Microsoft Build 2026 conference, CEO Satya Nadella claimed that the...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Jun 03, 2026
Microsoft has announced Project Solara, a new chip-to-cloud platform built specifically for AI agents and the specialized hardware they run on. Unveiled at Build 2026 by the company's Applied Sciences Group, it is one of the more ambitious...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 03, 2026
After rolling out its Surface Laptop Ultra earlier this week, Microsoft is following up with its Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a sleek and compact PC that brings a bit of Xbox Series X styling to the RTX Spark party that NVIDIA ignited at...
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Chris Harper - Mon, Jun 01, 2026
Microsoft has been trying to optimize Windows as of late, offering performance improvements and introducing suggested feature additions, but things are still a work in progress. Case in point, Microsoft has confirmed that some users are...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 01, 2026
It's not taking long for device makers to embrace NVIDIA's entrance into the consumer PC market with RTX Spark, an Arm-based chip introduced at Computex and designed to power a new wave of systems for the agentic AI era. Count Microsoft...
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Chris Harper - Sat, May 30, 2026
Windows 11 has been hit by a series of zero-day exploits recently, which were brought to light by aggrieved cybersecurity researcher Nightmare-Eclipse. In response, Microsoft published a blog post threatening legal action against the...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, May 29, 2026
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma may have just shown Copilot the door on gaming consoles, but Microsoft isn't pumping the brakes elsewhere with its AI companion. The company is rolling out a sweeping design and performance overhaul across both the...
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Chris Harper - Thu, May 28, 2026
A particularly ingenious phishing attack against Microsoft 365 users has caught the FBI's attention, courtesy of Kali365. The new attack, which utilizes the Kali365 Phising-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform, bypasses multi-factor...
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Chris Harper - Tue, May 26, 2026
Secure Boot, a feature first launched in 2011 with Windows 8, included an initial wave of certificates that are set to expire starting on June 24th. We've covered this before, but Microsoft is renewing its warning with the deadline now...
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Chris Harper - Thu, May 21, 2026
A few week back, aggrieved cybersecurity researcher Nightmare-Eclipse released a pair of Windows exploits dubbed YellowKey and GreenPlasma, following his reveal of three Windows Defender-related zero-days last month. GreenPlasma relates to...
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Chris Harper - Wed, May 20, 2026
Despite a prominent leak and also being available at launch via Xbox Game Pass, Forza Horizon 6 is off to a high-momentum start in sales and concurrent players on Steam, breaching 273,000 players within two days of launch. Since those...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, May 19, 2026
Asha Sharma has been making her mark after taking over the reigns as CEO of Microsoft's Xbox gaming division, as she seeks to revitalize the sagging brand in preparation for its next generation console codenamed Project Helix. Early on in...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 19, 2026
Microsoft is rolling out a new generation of Surface devices for enterprise customers, kitted with Intel's latest-generation Core Ultra Series 3 processors based on Panther Lake. In doing so, Microsoft claims both the retooled Surface Pro...
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Chris Harper - Sat, May 16, 2026
It only took the better part of five years, but Microsoft is finally listening to Windows users and restoring desired Taskbar functionality to Windows 11 and addition some customization options to the Start menu too. The Taskbar used to...
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Chris Harper - Fri, May 15, 2026
Microsoft's initiative to improve Windows 11 is in full swing and the company just announced an overhaul to how system drivers are handled. In Taipei at WinHEC 2026, Microsoft announced the Driver Quality Initiative (DQI), which is...
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