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… Prior to that Simonyi had spent more than 20 years at Microsoft, overseeing the creation of Excel and Word. Perry Clarke is now CTO of Application Systems at Microsoft, after spending nearly a decade running Microsoft 365 Core, the core services and components of Microsoft 365. …
… Microsoft originally switched to Microsoft Gaming at the same time it announced its plan to acquire Activision Blizzard in 2022. Phil Spencer was promoted to Microsoft Gaming CEO at the time, in an effort to further position Microsoft’s gaming efforts across Xbox, PC, mobile, and the cloud. …
… Microsoft is rolling out these new Copilot features as the default experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Premium subscribers. Microsoft must face a $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences. …
MAI-Image-2-Efficient is debuting on Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground today, as Microsoft’s “best text-to-image model” yet. …
… Sources tell The Information that Microsoft is confident that it can implement “safer” versions of the tool. The always-on version of Microsoft 365 Copilot could reportedly do things like monitor a user’s Outlook inbox and calendar and serve up a list of suggested tasks each day. …
… I’m told that Microsoft’s Experiences + Devices team, which includes the engineers responsible for Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and Surface, is winding down its usage of Claude Code by the end of June. …
… If you’ve previously subscribed to Xbox Game Pass or Microsoft 365 in the past, you’ll have to use a different Microsoft account. Microsoft is launching its deal today and it will run until June 30th, or while supplies of the eligible PCs last. …
… There, Microsoft claims it’s put “significant efforts” behind “new consumer offerings” for Android. Link: Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’ | https://www.theverge.com/news/916601/microsoft-xbox-mobile-store-comment | The Verge
… Inside the US, Google may even be forced to carry stores like Microsoft’s inside its own Google Play Store — assuming Microsoft can wait that long. Microsoft is currently trying to convince the judge in Epic v. …
… Microsoft is rolling out these new Copilot features as the default experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Premium subscribers, and they’re also available with Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans.
