If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Microsoft has announced that Office 2019 for Mac will become almost useless next month, with the company blaming an expiring digital license. Starting July 13, Mac users running older versions of Word ...

Microsoft released a suite of fresh MAI models at Build 2026. They work fine, but they can't compete with Claude and Gemini. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and video games for more than a ...

The LinkedIn co-founder was a key bridge to Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, but he also came with some baggage. By Karen Weise and Cade Metz Karen Weise reported from Seattle, and Cade Metz from ...

A development flag left switched on in production builds of several Microsoft 365 Android apps disabled the check that limits account-token sharing to trusted Microsoft apps. Any other app on the same ...

Web IQ is a set of grounding APIs that let AI systems pull information from Bing's search index. Microsoft says the system returns passages rather than full pages, reducing the amount of context AI ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

Microsoft Scout is a new AI agent thats available today to early-access Microsoft 365 customers. Credit: Samuel Boivin / Shutterstock Microsoft delivered major AI announcements this year at its annual ...

Work is moving forward in new ways, with the rhythm shifting from single exchanges to something more continuous. Most systems still stop at answering the question. The real unlock is in the ...

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Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows. Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its ...

Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft’s opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other ...