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Microsoft has officially open-sourced the original 6502 BASIC source code from 1976, which powered early Commodore and Apple II computers, marking a historic preservation milestone.
Microsoft has released the earliest known DOS source code, including 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and utilities, along with developer documentation.
Scammers are exploiting a Microsoft internal email address typically used for account alerts to send spammy links, potentially tricking recipients. Microsoft says it is investigating and taking action.
Clarity Agent is an open-source AI tool from Microsoft that helps users clarify their thinking by asking questions, producing version-controlled Markdown documents for problem definition, solution analysis, and failure mode exploration.
Satya Nadella reveals how Microsoft is applying Lean manufacturing principles to knowledge work using AI, achieving significant cost reductions in customer support operations through AI agents and real-time assistance.
Microsoft introduces PEEK, a 1,024-token 'context map' that caches orientation knowledge for LLM agents, cutting redundant reasoning and achieving up to 34% accuracy gains with 93–145 fewer retries and 5.8× cost reduction.
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman predicts that within 12 to 18 months, most computer-based professional tasks will be automated by AI, targeting mainly repetitive high-paying office jobs. This timeline is shorter than most people expect.
Microsoft open-sourced AI Engineer Coach, a VS Code extension that analyzes developer usage of AI coding agents, providing insights and anti-pattern detection to improve AI workflows.
Microsoft is canceling most internal Claude Code licenses and directing employees to use GitHub Copilot CLI instead, citing convergence and cost savings despite Claude Code's popularity among its developers.
Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, is leaving the company after 35 years, but will remain focused on marketing for Windows, Copilot, and Microsoft 365 consumer business until 2027.
Microsoft is rolling out an update that lets Office users remove the floating Copilot button in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, addressing user complaints about it obstructing cells and documents.
This article alerts Linux distributions about the upcoming expiration of Microsoft's UEFI CA certificates used for Secure Boot, detailing new certificates and potential boot issues on newer hardware that lacks the old ones.
Microsoft has canceled internal licenses for Anthropic's Claude Code due to unexpectedly high costs from token-based billing, highlighting a broader industry shift where AI usage is blowing through annual budgets in months.
Dan Jeffries predicts that closed SaaS surveillance systems will be replaced by open-source alternatives, citing Microsoft canceling Claude Code licenses due to cost and Uber burning through its entire 2026 AI budget prematurely.
Microsoft is reportedly canceling internal Claude Code licenses, pushing employees to use GitHub Copilot CLI instead, driven by financial motives and product alignment.
Microsoft is in talks to supply its custom Maia 200 AI chips to Anthropic following a $5 billion investment, as Anthropic seeks to address its growing compute needs amid rising popularity of its Claude assistant and Claude Code tool.
Microsoft introduces the Fara1.5 family of small browser agents (4B, 9B, 27B) that achieve state-of-the-art performance on computer use benchmarks, scoring 63% on Online-Mind2Web and beating larger models like Operator and Gemini.
Microsoft canceled internal Claude Code licenses due to untenable token-based costs; Uber burned through its 2026 AI budget in four months. This signals the end of the AI subsidy era as enterprise budgets clash with rising model prices.
Microsoft announces a redesign of C#'s unsafe keyword in C# 16 to enforce memory safety contracts, making unsafe operations visible and compiler-enforced, with preview in .NET 11 and production in .NET 12.
GitHub is struggling under Microsoft control, facing outages, security breaches, and talent drain, while falling behind in AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code, with internal leadership turmoil and competition threatening its survival.