Articles tagged "Microsoft"

A post on Xbox Wire with the innocuous title “Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans” caused a lot of outrage in the gaming community. That’s because the post...

Today Microsoft has announced that the 2025 update to Windows 11 has started to roll out. Commonly known as version 25H2 (because it's meant to arrive in the second half of the year), it's the annual...

Back in June, Microsoft and Asus announced the first-ever handheld Xbox consoles with the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X. The pair are now up for pre-order, and we finally get their pricing details. ROG...

Microsoft and ASUS have announced a new range of ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. This includes the new ROG Xbox Ally X and the ROG Xbox Ally. These devices combine ASUS's hardware with an updated Windows...

Kantar’s BrandZ report for 2025 crowned Apple as the world’s most valuable brand. Cupertino is now valued at $1.29 trillion, which represents a 28% year-on-year growth for its brand value. Kantar...

Microsoft announced its latest Surface devices with the 2-in-1 Surface Pro 12 and the Surface Laptop 13. Both are Arm-powered with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus chip, boot Windows 11, and feature...

Microsoft has announced that effective immediately the prices for all of its Xbox products are going up. This includes consoles, controllers, accessories, and even first-party Xbox titles. The...

Rumors about Microsoft’s handheld gaming Xbox console have been going around for years. Back in November, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed the brand was working on a handheld Xbox gaming...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI following a 14-month investigation. The conclusion is that Microsoft’s latest investment...

Did you know that Microsoft quietly launched a free version of Office for Windows and didn't tell anyone? According to a new report today, that's true. There are, however, multiple huge caveats....

Microsoft partnered with Teachable AI Experiences and the Xbox Games Studios' Ninja Theory to introduce a new AI model aimed at helping game developers. It's called Muse. What can Muse do? It...

DeepSeek conquered the mobile world and it is now expanding to Windows – with the full support of Microsoft, surprisingly. Yesterday, the software giant added the DeepSeek R1 model to its Azure AI...

Microsoft might purchase TikTok's US operations. This information comes directly from US President Donald Trump, who added that "there's great interest in TikTok" when asked about Microsoft's...

These days so many services, even full-blown apps, live in the cloud so it’s only natural to consider a cloud-first device – with that in mind, Microsoft’s new Windows 365 Link is pretty...

One of the main issues with Windows on Arm so far has been combability with x86-based apps and games. Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27744 features an updated Prism emulator for Arm...

Microsoft has announced that starting in November, users can play and purchase Xbox games directly from the Xbox app on Android. This announcement comes via Xbox President Sarah Bond, who, in a...

Microsoft has started rolling out the Windows 11 24H2 update, which is known simply as “Windows 11 2024 update”. This version improves security, brings new connectivity options and adds more AI...

Microsoft is reshaping its Game Pass subscriptions – the Ultimate and PC versions are getting more expensive, while console players are gaining access to a new, cheaper Standard version. Also, the...

Last month, Microsoft’s Phone Link platform added the ability to extract text from images in your Android phone’s gallery. The optical character recognition (OCR) feature dubbed as “Scan Text” was...

Microsoft has redoubled its efforts to push Windows-on-ARM into the mainstream with the recent string of Snapdragon X laptops from Microsoft itself, Samsung, Dell, HP and Lenovo. But the company...