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Popular game Minecraft sells over 300 mn copies to date
New Delhi: Popular Microsoft-owned game Minecraft has sold a massive 300 million copies to date, remaining one of the best-selling games of all time. It might feel like Minecraft’s blocky biomes have…
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Microsoft welcomes Activision Blizzard and their teams to Xbox
New Delhi: Top Microsoft leaders Satya Nadella and Brad Smith welcomed the closing of $68.7 billion transaction to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard, saying they affirm the commitment to labour principles and…
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Microsoft announces AI bug bounty programme, offers up to $15K reward
San Francisco: Microsoft has announced an AI bug bounty programme featuring the AI-powered Bing experience as the first in-scope product, with awards up to $15,000. The programme is to encourage researchers around…
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UK clears Microsoft’s new deal to buy gaming giant Activision for $68.7 bn
London: The UK’s anti-trust watchdog on Friday cleared the restructured deal for Microsoft to buy gaming giant Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, after it concluded that the new deal would preserve competitive…
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Microsoft completely blocks Windows 7 keys from activating Windows 11
New Delhi: You will not be able to activate Windows 11 with older keys from Windows 7 anymore as Microsoft has now completely blocked those from activating a copy of latest Windows…
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UK regulator places Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud dominance under intense scrutiny
London: UK media regulator Ofcom on Thursday referred the public cloud infrastructure services market to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for an independent investigation to further examine US tech giants Amazon…
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Microsoft’s Bing Chat responses injected by ads pushing malware: Report
San Francisco: Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that malicious advertisements or harmful ads are now being distributed via Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing Chat responses, promoting fake download sites that spread malware, a new report…
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Microsoft Edge shuts tablet-friendly ‘Web Select’ feature
San Francisco: Microsoft has shut down its most applauded feature, “Web Select” — from Edge browser. To improve end-user experience, the Web Select feature “is being deprecated and will no longer be…
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Microsoft rolls out ‘background removal’ tool in Paint
San Francisco: Microsoft has started to roll out a new “background removal” tool in its Paint app on Windows 11 Insider builds. With this tool, users will be able to remove the…
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Microsoft reveals how China-based hackers stole its consumer email key
San Francisco: China-backed hackers stole a digital consumer key from Microsoft to gain unfettered access to US government emails and the tech giant has detailed how the cyber criminals pulled off one…
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Microsoft to end mandatory use of Edge for Windows 11 users in EU
San Francisco: Microsoft is discontinuing its requirement for Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to use Microsoft Edge for accessing widgets and searching results. The tech giant has begun…
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Microsoft to remove WordPad in future release of Windows
San Francisco: Microsoft has announced that it will no longer update WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows nearly after 30 years. As an alternative,…
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Microsoft to remove few features from Edge in latest update
San Francisco: Microsoft has said that it will be removing some of the features from its web browser Edge in the latest update. The tech giant will remove five features with the…
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Microsoft Launcher for Android to get ChatGPT-supported Bing Chat
San Francisco In the generative AI era, Microsoft is updating its Launcher application for Android with ChatGRP-supported Bing Chat integration. According to reports, the feature will also roll out to Microsoft Surface…
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Microsoft investigating ‘unsupported processor’ error occurring in Windows 11
San Francisco: Microsoft has said that it’s investigating reports of a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) with a “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” error message that has appeared on some Windows 11 PCs following the installation…
