Salesforce and Slack sue Microsoft in UK for playing monopoly with Teams bundles
… Do you think Microsoft is engaging in anticompetitive business practices by bundling Teams with its Office suite? …
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A new Surface Pro just landed, but is it really an upgrade? I compare the Pro for Business (12th Edition) to the Surface Pro 11 to find out.
New Gen Microsoft Surface Pro for Business 12th Edition The new Surface Pro for Business 12th Edition is a spec bump that adds Intel "Panther Lake" Core Ultra Series 3 chips to the mix. The laptop is otherwise quite similar to the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Pro for Business 11th Edition. …
£2.8B UK lawsuit against Microsoft’s Azure raises questions about cloud pricing and contracts
… Competition lawyer Maria Luisa Stasi initiated the lawsuit on behalf of approximately 60,000 UK businesses, seeking damages of roughly $2.8 billion. Microsoft's apparent setting of higher wholesale prices for Windows Server is an anti-competitive business practice. …
Xbox hires for a major new comms role to "protect and elevate" the brand, pointing to a PR strategy shift
… This is a high-impact role that will lead business-critical proactive and reactive work across gaming corporate issues as well as larger narratives including business momentum ." It might not seem like much to us on the surface, and it might not immediately jump out as important, but the role could… …
"This seems really unprofessional": Microsoft Teams users are outraged at a new 'Unlock Premium' button
Salesforce and Slack just filed a lawsuit against Microsoft over anticompetitive business practices, specifically bundling Teams with Office . …
I compare the new Surface Laptop 8 to the Surface Laptop 7 — which one is better for you?
… Surface Laptop for Business 8th Edition vs. Surface Laptop 7: Specifications Here's a quick breakdown of the specs that go into the new Surface Laptop for Business 8th Edition and 2024's Surface Laptop 7 for Business with Intel chips. …
Is Xbox freezing third-party Xbox Game Pass deals? Here's what's being said, and why I don't buy it.
… Indeed, Asha previously spoke about Game Pass retention, and the business model revolves entirely around offsetting churn, i.e., the number of users subscribing month in, month out. …
"DRAM oligopolists" are working together to inflate prices and choke supply, claims new lawsuit
… Citing the ongoing "RAMpocalypse," the lawsuit alleges that the " DRAM oligopolists " raised prices " with mind-blowing scale and rapidity." The lawsuit has been filed by a " class of individual and business consumers. …
Microsoft sued by neighbors over "unreasonable" AI datacenter noise
… The lawsuit claims that Microsoft has not taken the proper steps to reduce noise in the surrounding area: "Defendant has failed to follow proper industrial practices to prevent the offsite emission of noise, and has failed to absorb, capture, mitigate, and/or prevent noise from escaping its Data Ce… …
Quote of the day by Jensen Huang: "Moore's law is dead. It's completely over" — Will PC gamers ever see affordable GPUs again?
… It's much the same story as NVIDIA's minuscule — if utterly dominant — consumer GPU business compared to its monstrous data center and artificial intelligence side. …