In a truly galaxy-brained rebrand, Microsoft Office is now the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app,' but Copilot is also still the name of the AI assistant

The company is seemingly all but ditching the Office name—which it introduced four years before Corsair existed, and which ...
The Official Microsoft Blog

Microsoft announces acquisition of Osmos to accelerate autonomous data engineering in Fabric

Today, Microsoft is announcing the acquisition of Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform designed to help simplify complex and time-consuming data workflows. Microsoft + Osmos: Extending ...
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Microsoft is accidentally blocking M365 app downloads

Microsoft is currently investigating a serious service issue preventing customers from downloading Microsoft 365 desktop applications directly from the service homepage. The company has tagged the ...
Kotaku

Microsoft Warns That Windows 11 AI Might Install Malware On Your PC

Microsoft’s push to make Windows 11 a fully AI PC operating system continues, with the company planning to roll out new AI agents that can complete tasks and make changes on your behalf. But the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Microsoft Bets on Influencers Like Alix Earle to Close the Gap With ChatGPT

Microsoft Corp., eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI ...
Reuters

Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google, Microsoft apps amid strained US ties

NEW DELHI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Three cabinet colleagues of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are promoting use of apps by domestic rivals to Google Maps, WhatsApp and Microsoft, in the strongest ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Open-Sources the BASIC Software That Powered Early PCs

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
CNET

Microsoft Start gives you a personalized news feed. Here's how to use it

Microsoft launches a personalized news feed that you can access on Windows 10 or 11, or through your browser or phone. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the ...