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The Latest Breaking News from Microsoft

Wall Street buckles in for a long war as Hormuz remains closed and Trump says he has ‘plenty of time’

Three words spooking the market.

Fortune

Microsoft debuts DirectStorage 1.4 at GDC 2026, with Zstandard compression and GACL — update promises developers improved compression ratios, faster loading, and more

DirectStorage 1.4 brings along key upgrades to the API, including support for Zstandard compression as well as CreatorID for improved GPU scheduling.

Tom’s Hardware

Still running Firefox on Windows 7? Mozilla has your back (for now) but admits it's risky without "official support from Microsoft"

Firefox just extended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 by six months, giving systems that refuse to die more time to get updates.

Windows Central

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Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot?

Microsoft’s Copilot Health isn't a doctor, but it wants to manage your data from 50,000 hospitals. Can we trust the company's new "Secure by Design" mandate?

Windows Central

Mac Neo vs. Windows’ future, Windows 12 misinformation, and the truth behind Project Helix — Windows Central Podcast

Podcast: Daniel and Zac discuss Apple's new MacBook Neo and how it might impact the Windows market going forward. Also on this episode: Windows 12 rumors, what's real and what's not? Plus, the latest on Project Helix, the next-gen Xbox.

Windows Central

AI policy's new power center

As lawmakers debate guardrails, the Pentagon showed how it can reshape the AI industry with a single contract decision.

Axios

Microsoft's IPO turns 40 today. If you invested $1,000 in Microsoft in 1986, you’d have $5.5 million today

Forty years after going public at $21 a share, Microsoft grew from a two-person software startup into a $3 trillion empire powering nearly every corner of the global economy.

Fortune

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New 'Fallout' Game Is Reportedly Canceled, But Is It the Remaster Project?

A new Fallout game is now reportedly canceled by a Microsoft-owned studio, and many fear it to be the rumored remaster.

Player One

Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year

"We will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing"

GamesRadar

'The tools SMBs need to stay productive, connected and ready for the future': Dell's latest SMB laptops promise high performance and decent hardware

Dell Pro Essential laptops, desktops, and mobile workstations combine performance, durability, and remote management to support SMB hybrid productivity and scalability.

TechRadar

AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia join hyperscalers to define optical scale-up interconnect of the future for AI clusters — Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI to benefit as speeds eventually scale to 3.2 Tb/s

AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia team up with Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI to develop protocol-agnostic optical scale-up interconnects for AI clusters.

Tom’s Hardware

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft

"We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."

PC Gamer

Apple's $599 MacBook Neo is a 'shock to the entire market'—and PC makers are 'taking it very seriously'

PC companies are scrambling to respond to Apple's surprise entry into the budget laptop market, Asus CFO Nick Wu says—and rivals like Microsoft, Intel, and AMD are all "seriously discussing" how to compete.

Fortune

Claude can now share context across Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, letting you 'work with a higher degree of efficiency and quality'

Anthropic partners with Microsoft to bring Claude directly to your Excel and PowerPoint workflows.

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The next Xbox is coming soon, here's what we know (and don’t know) about Project Helix so far

Everything we’ve learned about Xbox Project Helix so far, and the biggest question that hasn’t yet been answered.

Windows Central

Microsoft's Windows and Devices lead now reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella in important leadership shakeup

Microsoft's EVP of Experiences & Devices is retiring, and four new leads are taking his place who will now report directly to the CEO instead going forward.

TechRadar

Microsoft has reportedly pulled the plug on its strange ‘This is an Xbox’ marketing push

Microsoft has seemingly retired its odd 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign following new leadership changes.

Tom’s Guide

'I am completely blown away by it,' Ex-Windows Chief calls MacBook Neo ‘paradigm-shifting'

On X, former Windows president Steven Sinofsky discussed how the MacBook Neo validates his vision for Arm.

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The Guardian - US

Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon

Tech company files amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designation

TechRadar

Microsoft is introducing Entra passkeys to Windows – so tough luck if your device is jailbroken, as your credentials will soon be gone forever

Microsoft is bringing Entra ID to Windows devices - but be careful, Microsoft Authenticator is scanning rooted or cracked devices and wiping credentials

The Independent UK

Google just made its biggest-ever acquisition. And you might never have heard of it

Israeli startup Wiz cost more than double the amount Google spent on Motorola, its previous record acquisition

PC Gamer

Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'

Me? I just think everyone's intimidated by the raw power and magnetism of Linux.

TechRadar

Microsoft has recommitted to its Xbox Backwards Compatibility Program going forward and will be 'rolling out new ways to play some of the most iconic games from our past'

Microsoft has recommitted to its Xbox Backwards Compatibility Program for its future consoles and confirmed it will return in some form later this year.

Barchart

Why Jefferies Says Microsoft Stock Looks Cheap Despite AI Growth

Microsoft’s AI engine is firing and the stock still looks cheap.

PC Gamer

Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage

Racing ahead.

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