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Microsoft is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Washington, US. It produces consumer electronics, personal computers, computer software, and other related products and services. The company was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It released the Microsoft Windows in 1985 and in 1990 it introduced the Microsoft Office Suit. Other popular software systems include the Internet Explorer, Microsoft Vista, and Edge Web browser. Its product-line includes Surface series laptops and tablets as well as Xbox video game consoles.

04 Sep 2025
Anthropic

Meta-backed Scale AI sues ex-employee for stealing confidential documents

Scale AI, a leading player in the artificial intelligence (AI) data labeling industry, has filed a lawsuit against its former employee Eugene Ling.

01 Sep 2025
Amazon

Big Tech added 30,000 jobs in India despite trade tensions

Major US tech firms, including Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google, have hired over 30,000 employees in India in the last one year.

01 Sep 2025
ChatGPT

OpenAI plans India data center under $500B Stargate project

OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, is looking to build a massive new data center in India.

31 Aug 2025
Windows 11

Microsoft denies its Windows updates caused SSDs to crash

Recent reports have suggested that certain Windows 11 updates (KB5063878 and KB5062660) are causing some SSDs with Phison controllers to fail.

29 Aug 2025
Business

Indian-origin Microsoft engineer found dead at Silicon Valley campus

Pratik Pandey, a 35-year-old Indian-origin software engineer, was found dead at Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus on August 20, according to Bloomberg.

29 Aug 2025
iOS

Microsoft Word will auto-save new documents to cloud by default

Microsoft is changing the way its Word app saves documents on Windows.

29 Aug 2025
Samsung

Microsoft Copilot AI launches on Samsung's latest TVs and monitors

Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, has officially made its way into Samsung's 2025 line-up of TVs and smart monitors.

29 Aug 2025
ChatGPT

Musk accelerates 'Macrohard' plan with AI that writes software autonomously

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, has launched a new agentic coding model called 'grok-code-fast-1.'

29 Aug 2025
NVIDIA

Microsoft takes on Google, OpenAI with first in-house AI models

Microsoft has launched its first-ever in-house artificial intelligence (AI) models, namely the MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview.

28 Aug 2025
Israel

Microsoft fires employees protesting Israeli ties in president's office

Microsoft has fired two of its employees, Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle, for their involvement in a sit-in protest at the office of Brad Smith, Microsoft's Vice Chair and President.

27 Aug 2025
Windows 11

Windows 11: Your calls over Bluetooth will now sound clearer

Microsoft has announced a new LE Audio feature for Windows 11, aimed at improving the audio quality of Bluetooth headsets.

27 Aug 2025
Israel

Seven arrested as employees protest Microsoft's ties with Israeli military

At least seven current and former Microsoft employees were arrested during a sit-in demonstration at the tech giant's headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

27 Aug 2025
Israel

Microsoft HQ locked down after protesters occupy president's office

Microsoft's Redmond headquarters was put on temporary lockdown after a group of protesters stormed the office of Brad Smith, the company's president.

26 Aug 2025
Google

Why AI companies have been warned by US Attorneys General

A group of 44 US Attorneys General has issued a stern warning to the CEOs of leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies.

25 Aug 2025
Hyderabad

Microsoft to pay ₹5.4 crore monthly for new Hyderabad office

Microsoft India (R&D) has signed a major office lease deal in Hyderabad, one of the biggest this year.

23 Aug 2025
Android

You can soon resume Android apps directly on Windows 11

Microsoft is testing a new feature for Windows 11 that will allow users to continue using Android apps directly from their PCs.

23 Aug 2025
Elon Musk

'Macrohard': Musk's new venture to create Microsoft-style software using AI

Elon Musk has announced his latest venture, "Macrohard," which aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate software companies like Microsoft.

'Seemingly-conscious': Microsoft warns you not to treat AI like humans 

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's artificial intelligence (AI) chief, has warned against the dangerous trend of treating AI as if it were human.

21 Aug 2025
Microsoft Excel

Why Excel's new AI tool might fail in 'high-stakes scenarios'

Microsoft has introduced a new AI feature in Excel, called COPILOT.

20 Aug 2025
Business

Microsoft employees protest at HQ over company's ties with Israel 

A group of Microsoft employees and activists have staged a protest at the tech giant's headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

19 Aug 2025
Xbox

AI upgrades, cross-platform gaming: What to expect from next-generation Xbox

Microsoft has revealed its plans for the next-generation Xbox console, which will include artificial intelligence (AI) and support for cross-platform gaming.

15 Aug 2025
Google

Oracle partners with Google to integrate Gemini AI into cloud

Oracle and Google's parent company Alphabet have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Gemini artificial intelligence models into Oracle's cloud computing services and business applications.

13 Aug 2025
Amazon

IBM, Google aim to launch operational quantum computers by 2030

The long-awaited dream of practical quantum computing is getting closer to reality, thanks to major tech players like IBM and Google.

13 Aug 2025
Meta

Microsoft's secret spreadsheet reveals AI talent it's targeting from Meta

Microsoft is on a talent acquisition spree, especially targeting Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) workforce.

12 Aug 2025
Windows 11

Windows 11 gets taskbar apps to make office work easier

Microsoft has announced the rollout of its new lightweight taskbar apps, specifically designed for Microsoft 365 users on Windows 11.

12 Aug 2025
Apple

Altman rebuts Musk's antitrust claim over App Store favoring ChatGPT

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to Elon Musk's allegations of Apple favoring ChatGPT on its App Store.

12 Aug 2025
GitHub

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns, plans return to start-up life

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced he will step down by the end of 2025, choosing to return to his entrepreneurial roots to launch a start-up.

12 Aug 2025
App Store

Musk to sue Apple over bias in App Store rankings 

Elon Musk has accused Apple of violating antitrust laws by allegedly manipulating its App Store to favor OpenAI and hinder other artificial intelligence (AI) companies.

09 Aug 2025
Technology

Microsoft to discontinue its document scanning app

Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of its popular document scanning app, Microsoft Lens.

09 Aug 2025
Israel

Microsoft investigates Israeli military's use of Azure for Palestinian surveillance

Microsoft is investigating the use of its Azure cloud storage platform by Israel's military surveillance agency, Unit 8200.

08 Aug 2025
Elon Musk

Musk says Grok 4 is smarter than OpenAI's GPT-5

Following the launch of OpenAI's latest AI model, GPT-5, Elon Musk has claimed that xAI's Grok 4 Heavy model is still smarter than the new entrant.

07 Aug 2025
OpenAI

Microsoft integrates OpenAI's GPT-5 across all Copilot AI tools

Microsoft has announced the integration of OpenAI's latest GPT-5 model into its suite of AI-powered tools. It will show up in Copilot as the new "smart mode."

07 Aug 2025
Business

Microsoft may soon enforce stricter return-to-office mandate for some teams

Microsoft is mulling a major shift in its remote work policy, with plans for a stricter return-to-office (RTO) mandate for certain teams.

07 Aug 2025
Business

Microsoft engineer reveals strategies to land tech jobs amid layoffs

Ritvika Nagula, a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure, has shared her proven strategies for landing tech jobs despite the current industry downturn.

06 Aug 2025
Cybersecurity

By 2030, Windows PCs could see, hear, and talk: Microsoft

Microsoft's Corporate VP for OS Security, David Weston, has shared his vision of a future where Windows will be more than just an operating system.

06 Aug 2025
Amazon

For the first time, OpenAI's models are available on AWS

In a major development, OpenAI's advanced models have been made available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the first time.

05 Aug 2025
Technology

You can soon roam around in Windows XP-themed Crocs

In a quirky move to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Microsoft is preparing to launch limited-edition Windows XP-themed Crocs.

03 Aug 2025
Google

Google rewrites workflow culture, urges AI use over peer collaboration

Google is pushing its employees to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) as part of a strategy to maintain its leadership position in the tech industry.

03 Aug 2025
Bing

Powered by AI, Microsoft Bing is stealing Google Search users

Bing, Microsoft's search engine, is slowly but surely gaining ground in the search market.

03 Aug 2025
Amazon

FAAMNG firms ramp up hiring in India amid global layoffs

Despite the global trend of layoffs, tech giants under the FAAMNG umbrella—Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google—are expanding their workforce in India.

02 Aug 2025
Amazon

Tech giants pour $155B into AI, outspending US welfare budget

In a major development, US tech giants have spent more on artificial intelligence (AI) than the federal government has spent on education, training, employment, and social services in 2025.

02 Aug 2025
Google

Microsoft pulls plug on Windows 11 SE, its ChromeOS rival

Microsoft has announced that it will be ending support for Windows 11 SE, the operating system it launched in 2021 as a competitor to Google's ChromeOS.

01 Aug 2025
NVIDIA

Microsoft is now a $4T company!

Microsoft has joined NVIDIA in the exclusive $4 trillion market capitalization club.

01 Aug 2025
San Francisco

Leaked documents show how much Microsoft pays its engineers

Microsoft's pay guidelines have been leaked, shedding light on the tech giant's compensation packages for its engineers.

31 Jul 2025
Elon Musk

After Google, Musk's xAI to sign EU's AI code

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, has announced its decision to sign the Safety and Security chapter of the European Union's Code of Practice.

31 Jul 2025
GitHub

AI coding assistant GitHub Copilot now has over 20M users

GitHub Copilot, the artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant developed by Microsoft-owned GitHub in partnership with OpenAI, has crossed a major milestone of over 20 million users.

31 Jul 2025
NVIDIA

Microsoft inches closer to becoming $4T company

Microsoft is on the verge of becoming the world's second-ever $4 trillion company, thanks to its strong quarterly earnings.

30 Jul 2025
Delhi High Court

Why oil refiner Nayara Energy has withdrawn lawsuit against Microsoft

Russia-backed Nayara Energy, one of India's leading oil refining companies, has withdrawn its lawsuit against tech giant Microsoft.

29 Jul 2025
iPhones

Critical macOS flaw could leak your Apple Intelligence secrets: Microsoft

Microsoft has flagged a critical security flaw in macOS, one that could have given malicious apps access to highly sensitive user data.

29 Jul 2025
Technology

Microsoft's Copilot Mode turns Edge into your personal browsing assistant

Microsoft has introduced a new experimental feature, Copilot Mode, in its Edge browser.

28 Jul 2025
Delhi High Court

Indian oil refiner Nayara Energy sues Microsoft over suspended services

Nayara Energy, a Russia-backed Indian oil refiner, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft. The legal action comes after the US tech giant abruptly suspended key services.