EU tried to escape “Microslop,” but its own staff hate the Microsoft Teams alternative,...
The European Commission hosts Element Pro on its own servers as a sovereign fallback if Teams goes down, and staff have panned it. Their verdict says more about how indispensable Teams has become than how good it is, since Microsoft still hasn't given Teams a native WinUI client.
“Life is too short to support Windows users”: Microsoft engineer responds, says more developers...
A viral post said life is too short to support Windows users. Fowler called it clickbait, and Stack Overflow puts Windows at 49.5% of professional developers. But a 10,000-vote poll gave Windows just 12%, which explains Microsoft's big push on WSL and WinUI.
Microsoft confirms big Windows 11 announcement, as it keeps ripping out Windows 95-era UI...
Pavan Davuluri and Marcus Ash are teasing what's next for builders and creators, while NVIDIA confirmed Microsoft Execution Containers, unified memory work and Prism tuning for RTX Spark. Here is what to expect, including Surface Laptop Ultra pricing and the 18-core RTX Spark.
Hacker hijacked Microsoft’s X, promised Clippy back, then apologized on Microsoft’s behalf
The hijacked account followed a Clippy account, promised to bring Clippy back at 500,000 likes, and posted a strange apology about a $Clippy token tied to $MSFT. It happened shortly after Microsoft took down the AI-powered EvilTokens cybercrime service.
Nadella has lost the plot calling Copilot an OS again, it’s a web app...
We looked inside Copilot build 154.0.4258.37 and found a 520MB Edge build that even carries Edge Game Assist, a copilotapp_proxy.exe identical to Edge's, no WebView2 calls, and a .NET 10 WinUI host for voice and vision. The app used 760.6MB of RAM while idle on our PC.
Microsoft explains why Windows XP ran almost everything, and it lied to apps
Raymond Chen explains how Windows XP stored app fixes in AppPatch, why Microsoft faked Windows version numbers and even recreated the Windows 95 heap for old programs, and why one incompatible in-house app could stop an entire company from upgrading.
“Screamed into their pillows”: Nadella’s former advisor on the iPhone Duo, which should have...
Surface Duo veterans say they saw the iPhone Duo coming. Former Microsoft researcher Hadjar Homaei reveals unpublished dual-screen attention studies, Jeff Fritz blames Microsoft impatience, and Nadella's ex-advisor says the market, not Satya, decided Duo's fate.
“Does anyone use Copilot?”: Microsoft employee says “most people love it,” blames the San...
After a viral comment asked if anyone actually uses Copilot, a Microsoft employee pushed back, arguing the "nobody uses it" sentiment comes from living in a tech bubble. With 30 million paid seats on the line, here is why enterprise compliance and the new Copilot super app tell a different story.
Microsoft’s New Outlook will stop the typo you always spot right after hitting Send
Microsoft has a new idea that might give you a reason to choose New Outlook over Outlook Classic: automatic spell check before you hit Send.
Google researcher explains why Windows NT “puts Linux to shame,” and imagines an alternate...
A Google researcher and former Microsoft engineer argues that Windows NT's unified object model still puts Linux to shame. As AI agents demand stricter containment, Laurie Kirk explains why NT was built for this moment, and imagines an alternate history where Microsoft released an "Open NT."
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