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Microsoft will reportedly demo how its new AI tech, similar to ChatGPT, works in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook in March. Microsoft is reportedly set to roll out its new AI tech, similar to ChatGPT, across Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook in March. According to The Verge’s Tom Warren, the company is …

Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees, the company said Wednesday, as part of a restructuring plan to focus on areas of growth and brace the company for an economic downturn. The tech giant is the latest corporation to cut workers amid economic uncertainty, coming off the spectacular highs of …

Microsoft Corp is in talks to invest $10 billion in ChatGPT-owner OpenAI as part of the funding that will value the firm at $29 billion, Semafor reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The news underscores the rising interest in the artificial intelligence company, whose chatbot has dazzled …

Microsoft provides a rare insight into total Xbox One sales figures.

We may be in the tail end of 2021, but Microsoft is on the verge of releasing the latest edition of the non-subscription version of its office suite bearing this year in its name. Microsoft Office 2021 is due for release on October 5, the same day as Windows 11, …

You’ll be able to upgrade to Windows 11 for free if you’re already a Windows 10 user.

Microsoft Corp is pulling the plug on its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, next year as it prepares to battle market leader Chrome with its slicker Edge browser. Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became the dominant browser for over a decade as it was bundled with Microsoft’s Windows operating system …

Facebook, Alphabet unit Google, and other tech giants will have to pledge to do more to curb the monetisation of false information through advertisement placements, according to a European Commission document seen by Reuters. The EU executive also wants smaller social media or search services, private messaging services, ad exchanges, …

Hang on a minute? The latest Xbox Series X reports had told us that the new Xbox console was going to be cheaper than the Sony PS5 when released in November 2020. Those reports had been based on unsubstantiated comments from Reddit poster Dusk Golem, who apparently has been hearing …

President Donald Trump ordered ByteDance on Friday to divest the U.S. operations of its video-sharing app TikTok within 90 days, the latest effort to ramp up pressure on the Chinese company over concerns about the safety of the personal data it handles. “There is credible evidence that leads me to …

Facebook Inc and Snapchat owner Snap Inc held talks to buy Dubsmash, the Information reported on Wednesday, putting a spotlight on pop video apps at a time when Microsoft Corp is trying to work out a deal to buy rival TikTok. Facebook and Snap were no longer in deal talks, …

Twitter Inc has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as experts raised doubts over Twitter’s ability to put together financing for a potential deal. It is far from certain that Twitter …

A potential shotgun wedding to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) for TikTok’s US operations provoked an outcry on Monday on Chinese social media as well as criticism from a prominent Chinese investor in TikTok owner ByteDance. The US tech giant formally declared its interest on Sunday after President Donald Trump, who has …

The negotiations on taking control of TikTok operations in the US between Microsoft and ByteDance have reportedly stalled after US President Donald Trump said he would rather ban the popular video-sharing app. ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, was willing to sell its stake in the US part of the …

China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app, two people familiar with the matter said on Saturday. U.S. officials …

Four of the United States’ big tech firms, accounting for nearly a fifth of the S&P 500’s total value, report results on Thursday on the heels of a bruising Congressional hearing to look into alleged abuse of their global dominance. It will be the first time Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, …

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference that kicked off online on Monday, Apple announced Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud support for its first Arm chip and first Arm-based Macs. The chips mark a move away from the Intel processors Apple has used for the last 14 years. Microsoft 365 …

Sony teased Thursday which games will be available to play on its upcoming next-gen PlayStation 5 console and finally revealed the device’s new design. Sony showed two versions of the PlayStation 5: a standard one, and a “Digital Edition” that does away with the console’s disc drive. Without the disc …

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would create its first datacentre region in Italy under a $1.5 billion investment plan as the U.S. company expands its cloud computing services to more locations across the world. Microsoft’s rival Amazon Web Services last week opened a datacentre region in Milan, while in …

Bill Gates has compared tackling the coronavirus pandemic to fighting a world war. In a memo on his website, Gates Notes, the co-founder of Microsoft wrote that the whole world is in a fight against the virus. “The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus. The damage to …