Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
Microsoft is working to bring a consumer version of its Microsoft 365 bundle to market, which could include Windows 10, Office 365, Skype, Cortana, Outlook Mobile and/or other services.
Microsoft's Cortana seemingly is close to being able to incorporate recognition of multiple different voices.
The latest Windows 10 Fast Ring test build, No. 18298, adds a bunch of new Notepad features, alongside other relatively minor feature and settings updates.
Microsoft will no longer support its Azure Container Service (ACS) as of January 31, 2020. For Kubernetes users, the Microsoft way forward is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Microsoft's next version of its HoloLens mixed-reality goggles, expected in 2019, could incorporate the Snapdragon 850 mobile processor, according to a new report.
Microsoft is evolving its IT-pro-focused Windows Insider for Business program with its new Microsoft 365 Insider test program.
Microsoft is going to remake its Edge desktop browser by using Chromium components and by bringing it to Windows 7, 8.1 and macOS, in addition to Windows 10.
Microsoft's former AI CTO Joseph Sirosh has left Microsoft for luxury real-estate brokerage Compass where he will be working on AI-powered products for the real-estate market.
Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.
Following its alliance with Facebook around the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Microsoft is open-sourcing the ONNX runtime engine for machine learning.
Microsoft's successor to its 'Andromeda' dual-screened foldable device is codenamed 'Centaurus.' It's just one element of Microsoft's evolving Chromebook-compete strategy.
Microsoft allegedly is going to try (yet again) to take on ChromeOS with a locked-down Windows 'Lite' platform. Here's what I think could be in the works.
Microsoft has been on a winding road with its Surface hardware business for the past decade. What happened (and why) and what might be next for Surface?
Microsoft is continuing to polish and tweak the settings of Windows 10 19H1 with another new Fast Ring test build, No. 18290.
Microsoft has provided a number of fixes and updates to several older variants of Windows 10. The October 2018 Update/1809 did not get a new generally-available update today, however.
Open Source
Microsoft to stop supporting its Azure Container Service in January 2020
Cloud
Microsoft is readying a consumer Microsoft 365 subscription bundle
Microsoft
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Virtual Reality
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer of AI Joseph Sirosh leaves for real-estate brokerage