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The smaller Surface Pro has a 12-inch screen and is priced at $799
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled its two new laptops, the new Surface Pro 13 and Surface Pro 12. They will be available for pre-orders starting May 20 for $799 and 8499 respectively. The Surface Pro 12 features a 12-inch display with a 1080p front-facing camera and a 12-inch display with a 1440p rear-facing camera. The Surface…
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The ad tech monopoly case was lost by the company
Google has won half of the ad tech case that was filed by the US Justice Department (DOJ). The court found that Google’s advertiser tools and its acquisitions, such asDoubleClick, don’t harm competition. “Publishers choose to use…tool of Microsoft and Apple, due to their affordability and effectiveness,” Google’s VP of regulatory affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland said.
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The golden oldies are the research papers of the last few decades
Microsoft’s ‘ImageNet’ was the top-cited paper of all time from 1955-2014, as per an analysis by Nature. It is followed by a 2009 paper ‘ImageNet: A Large-Scale hierarchicalimage database’ which is ranked number 24. Some of the most famous papers did not cite the original work because it was too expensive when it was published.
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The employee called the boss a war profiteer
A petition has been launched by over 1,000 Microsoft employees against the company’s ties with Israel. The petition states that Microsoft’s “responsible” AI work powers the Israeli military’s “surveilling and murder”. It also alleges that Microsoft’s AI tools are used to create information from mass surveillance and translate it into hundreds of different languages.
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I covered Microsoft for 25 years
Microsoft on Monday announced the launch of ‘Surface Studio’, a set of tools to help users create, edit, and share photos and other documents. The tool will be available in the upcoming versions of Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book. The ‘Surface Studio’ can also serve as a storage device with an external hard drive…
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Microsoft turns 50, and this is a look at all the things it has done
Microsoft has celebrated its 50th anniversary on Friday. Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, the company has gone on to provide software for its first PC in 1980. Windows started out as a product of Microsoft’s early success and eventually led to a dream of a PC on every desk and in…
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There is a Digital Coup in the office of Mr. Musk
Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has 10 staff members at the Social Security Administration (SSA), government records reviewed by WIRED revealed. Some of them have been listed as part of a group within Microsoft Teams, which SSAemployees use for internal communication, according to a screenshot shared by WIRED. This comes after DOGE’s claims…
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There is a new Artificial Intelligence arms race
Elon Musk’s AI startup OpenAI has raised $25 billion led by SoftBank at an estimated $340 billion valuation, according to reports. It had earlier raised about $22 billion from SoftBank and Tencent. Last year, Microsoft and OpenAI had announced plans for a massive data centre that would have been billed as a landmark Trump-era project.
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Microsoft has Office features bundled into Microsoft365 and raised prices
Microsoft has introduced a new credit system to encourage users to use AI-powered products and services like Copilot. Users can choose from five plans including Personal Classic, Family Classic, Outlook, Office and Word. With these plans, users will get AI-powered features by default and it’ll be easy to turn off Copilot in Office apps if…
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Microsoft has re-launched Copilot as a pay-as-you-go agent
Microsoft has announced an increase in prices of Microsoft 365 personal and home subscriptions in the US for the first time in 12 years. “We are raising the prices of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for the first time in 12 years,” said Oystryk Oystryk, Director of Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. The new subscription plans…
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Microsoft will stop providing support for Windows 10 Office Apps in October
Microsoft has said it will be providing extended security updates to users of its Windows 10 operating system after its support ends on October 14. Businesses can purchase up to three years of extensions at a price of $30 per year for PC security updates. Consumers will be able to pay $30 for a year’s…
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Donald Trump’s win will affect the tech industry
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said Donald Trump’s re-election as US President is “a huge boost” for the technology sector. “It’s a huge boost for jobs in the United States,” he added. “He’s going to be a strong leader,” Nadella further said. Notably, Trump has called tech companies “the enemy” and “vultures” and said he’s…
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The games will be sold in theAndroid app next month
Microsoft has said it will begin delivering Xbox games directly to Android users from November. This comes after a US jury ruled that Google had illegally tied its payment system to its app store. The ruling allows third-party app stores to compete with Google’s Play Store but also forbids Google from tying its payments system…
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Microsoft wants to bring “Emotional support” to its products
Microsoft has announced an updated experience of Copilot for mobile, web and Windows that includes new voice-based features. The new features include the ability to ask the AI-powered assistant questions like ‘What is the weather like?’, ‘How many people are at home?’, and ‘What time does the rain start?’ Users will be encouraged to choose…
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Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to be a fuel source
Microsoft has announced a 20-year deal to buy electricity from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, which was shut down after the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1996. The company said that it will pay Constellation Energy around 8,100 crore ($11.3 billion) over 20 years for the power. This is the largest power purchase deal…
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The US Senate wants Big Tech to act fast against election rigging
US Senator Mark Warner has told social media companies to get out of the Russian government and tell us what they’re trying to tell us about the disinformation campaign being funded by such entities. Warner, who chaired a Senate hearing on Tuesday, further said the public should be aware of foreign election threats because of…
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Microsoft Office apps are getting more useful
Microsoft’s AI-assisted text chats and Inbox organizing in the company’s 365 service will be rolling out later this month. The software giant said it’s adding a new feature to prioritize emails using a feature that lets users focus on specific topics or people. It is also rolling out Copilot in OneDrive to let users compare…
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The CEO of Delta said CrowdStrike cost the airline $500 million in 5 days
Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian has said the airline is looking into legal action against cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike after a software update caused a massive outage on Microsoft Windows. Bastian said Delta was dependent on both CrowdStrike and Microsoft. He added that the airline was forced to cancel over 5,000 flights as a result of…
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The huge Microsoft Outage has taken down computers around the world
Microsoft on Friday fixed a flaw in the update for its Windows operating system that led to “blue screens of death” on Friday. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said that the issue had been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. The issue was caused by a “defect” in the code the company released for…
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CrowdStrike has taken down computers around the world
Microsoft is facing a global outage of Windows devices and services due to a configuration change in its Azure backend workloads. The root cause of those issues was down to “a configuration change in a portion of ourAzure backend workloads”, a Microsoft spokesman said. “We believe a resolution to the problems is forthcoming,” he added.
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The EU has charged Microsoft with antitrust violations
The European Commission has said it is “concerned” that Microsoft is giving its own communication product’Teams’ an “unprejudiced advantage over competitors” by tying it to its popular productivity suites for businesses. If Microsoft and the EU can’t reach an agreement, the commission can impose a fine of 10% of the company’s annual worldwide turnover.
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Microsoft will opt to switch off recall by default
Microsoft said it will make it an opt-in feature for Windows Copilot+ users to enable Windows Recall, which lets users search through their archived data. It added that it will also require Windows Hello to enable the feature so that users can authenticate with their face, fingerprint, or using a PIN. Microsoft will also make…
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Before Pizza Glue was in the search results, the search engines cut back on the stories that came up about it
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are used to monitor workers could potentially violate privacy, according to security consultancy Prism Infosec’s Principal Consultant Phil Robinson. This comes after US House of Representatives barred staff from using Microsoft’s ‘Copilot’ cloud service for sensitive data. The risk of leaking data to non-House approved cloud service is what prompted…
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Everything was announced for Microsoft build 2024
Microsoft has announced that Windows Copilot will soon be used as a virtual employee for menial tasks, helping with employee onboarding, data entry and other tasks. It added that developers will be able to integrate features like Studio Effects, filters, portrait blur, Live Captions and new AI-powered translator feature into their apps. The feature is…
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Everything was announced at the Surface event
Microsoft has unveiled its Surface Laptop 7th edition that features a 15.6-inch display, 16GB of RAM and a battery life of 20 hours. The Surface Laptop will be priced at $999.99 for the 8GB version, which has a battery life of 12 hours. The 13inches MacBook Air has a 13inches display with a resolution of…