… Developer-optimized Windows updates Image: The new Intelligent Terminal. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/intelligent-terminal.png?quality=90&strip=all Microsoft is taking steps to make Windows more developer-friendly. …
… Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/xboxuiteaser f31fca.jpg?quality=90&strip=all Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/xboxstore.jpg?quality=90&strip=all At first glance the UI, pictured above, doesn’t look wildly different to wh… …
… Image: Majorana 2 should help cut the time to useful quantum computing. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/Majorana-2-full-size 2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all “To create Majorana 2, the Microsoft Quantum team improved Majorana 1’s material stack to create a more stable top… …
… This Xbox platform shakeup is designed with a goal to “build a platform that is affordable, personal, and open by staying close to the work and the people we serve,” according to Sharma. …
… Microsoft is rolling out a lot of changes to Windows Update, including the ability to delay updates indefinitely at up to 35 days at a time. That means you’ll soon be able to pause updates for a 35-day window and keep re-pausing them at the end of that 35-day window. …
… Some GitHub employees have followed Dohmke to his Entire startup, a new developer platform that looks like it will compete directly with GitHub. …
… Windows Hello uses infrared 3D face mapping; by the developer’s own admission, howdy can apparently be fooled by a photo. …
… In her internal memo this week, Sharma lays out what she’s learned about the Xbox platform: It’s clear that our ambitions require deeper investment in the Xbox platform foundations than we’ve made before. …
… And certainly being able to take that to other platforms has been great for our customers, but then also great for the other platforms because then they’re able to have all these people that can do their marketing on those platforms. …
… The majority of that is software support, which “substantially all” customers renew every year “in order to continue to benefit from technical support services and the periodic issuance of unspecified updates and enhancements” to the applications and infrastructure they also use. …