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Microsoft announces 365 Basic for $1.99 per month, replacing the 100GB OneDrive subscription, rolling out globally on January 30 with ad-free Outlook and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces 365 Basic for $1.99 per month, replacing the 100GB OneDrive subscription, rolling out…
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Microsoft releases 98 security fixes, including 11 critical vulnerabilities and one for an actively exploited privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Windows ALPC (Jai Vijayan/Dark Reading)
Jai Vijayan / Dark Reading: Microsoft releases 98 security fixes, including 11 critical vulnerabilities and one for an actively exploited…
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Sources: Microsoft ditched a dual-screen design for the Surface Duo 3 and pivoted to a foldable screen design with 180-degree hinge and external cover display (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft ditched a dual-screen design for the Surface Duo 3 and pivoted to a…
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Three years after ending mainstream support for Windows 7, Microsoft ends premium extended security support for the OS and support for Windows 8.1 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Three years after ending mainstream support for Windows 7, Microsoft ends premium extended security support for…
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Sources: Microsoft is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $29B valuation as part of a deal to get 75% of OpenAI's profits until it recoups its investment (Semafor)
Semafor: Sources: Microsoft is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $29B valuation as part of a deal…
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Microsoft unveils text-to-speech AI model VALL-E, which was trained on English speech data and can simulate a person's voice with three seconds of sample audio (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Microsoft unveils text-to-speech AI model VALL-E, which was trained on English speech data and can…
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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units for data centers that has raised $300M+; December 2022 reports suggested the deal is worth ~$190M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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The UK will pay £24M to settle with French IT group Atos, which challenged awarding an £850M supercomputer contract to Microsoft to forecast weather and more (Financial Times)
Financial Times: The UK will pay £24M to settle with French IT group Atos, which challenged awarding an £850M supercomputer…
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