Function Microsoft President Brad Smith struck a conciliatory tone during a congressional hearing on Thursday over his IT giant’s repeated computer security failures — while also arguing that the Windows maker is above the rule of law, at least in China. He answered nearly three hours of questions from representatives of the U.S. House of … Read more
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Getty Images The S&P 500 is one of the most recognizable stock benchmarks in the world. It consists of 500 of the largest publicly traded U.S. companies and is an important part of institutional and retail portfolios. It has even received the endorsement of Warren Buffett, who once said, “In … Read more
Microsoft has canceled the wide release of Recall – the controversial tool for Copilot+ PCs that takes regular snapshots of a machine to create an overview of everything users do with their machines – and will instead only make it available for the foreseeable future to Windows Insiders. Recall was announced on May 20, when … Read more
Lawmakers on Thursday questioned Microsoft President Brad Smith about the Windows giant’s businesses trading in China — and the supercorp’s repeated security lapses — at a time when Beijing-backed spies are accused of breaking in in Microsoft-hosted email accounts of US government officials. A hearing was held in the U.S. House of Representatives in response … Read more
Lawmakers on Thursday questioned Microsoft President Brad Smith about the Windows giant’s businesses trading in China — and the supercorp’s repeated security lapses — at a time when Beijing-backed spies are accused of breaking in in Microsoft-hosted email accounts of US government officials. A hearing was held in the U.S. House of Representatives in response … Read more
Apple’s stock price continues to rise following this week’s WWDC keynote, where it introduced an Apple Intelligence suite of AI features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. In today’s intraday trading, Apple overtook Microsoft to once again become the world’s most valuable company, but the two tech giants could trade places all day long. Apple … Read more
Oracle has revealed that the cloud will be used by Microsoft to run workloads for OpenAI. Big Red described the deal as a sign that Redmond will extend the Azure Al platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to provide additional capacity for OpenAl. The latter outfit’s CEO, Sam Altman, came up with a canned quote … Read more
Patch Tuesday Microsoft kicked off our summer season with a relatively light June patch Tuesday, releasing updates for 49 CVE-marked security flaws in its products — including a bug that was considered critical, a pretty scary bug in wireless networking, and one that was made public. The one that is publicly known and not yet … Read more
A participant in the Copilot+PC demo room on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, USA, … [+] on Monday, May 20, 2024. Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella is betting that a new generation of computers with specialized artificial intelligence chips and faster performance will end the long-running rivalry between Windows PCs and Apple Inc.’s Mac. … Read more
Following the announcement of Gears of War: E-Day during the Xbox Games Showcase. Some fans were concerned that Microsoft and Gears developer The Coalition were walking away from the story of Gears 4 and the most recent game in the series, Gears 5. According to Microsoft, that is not the case. In a post on … Read more