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Sean Endicott

Microsoft News Roundup: Nightmare week of price hikes, rebrands, and remembering how Bill Gates lost $400 billion

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Microsoft had a tough week in the middle of January. The tech giant was attacked by Salesforce, controversially rebranded some of its most iconic apps, and raised the price of Microsoft 365 while forcing Copilot onto millions of paid subscribers. Even the good news surrounding Microsoft last week had a negative undertone, since a welcome addition to the Windows 11 taskbar only came after years of the same feature being available on smartphones.

To top things off, Android co-founder Rich Miner discussed how Bill Gates cost Microsoft $400 billion by losing the mobile space to Android (and iOS).

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