Microsoft and ASUS are releasing two new handhelds with the new, full-screen experience of the Xbox
Microsoft and Asus have announced Xbox Ally, a handheld gaming device with new Windows 11 full-screen experience. This will let users access Windows games from the Game Bar without tapping on their controller. They also said that users will be able to log in via the Windows lockscreen with their controller, no taps required.
This is how Microsoft is working with handheld PCs
Microsoft has begun showing console games inside the Xbox PC app for Windows. This comes after Microsoft announced that the Xbox Ally operating system will support all Windows 11 devices. The console gaming library within Xbox PC will be available for all Windows 11 devices, Microsoft said. Microsoft also said that it is working to unify PC and console gaming.
Jony Ive and Sam Altman are building a building
Microsoft on Thursday announced its artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Azure AI, for use in Ray-Ban glasses. The platform will be powered by OpenAI, which also has its own AI-powered glasses, and is available to users for a fee. The platform will let users create their own smart glasses using the cloud and it will be able to recognise sights and sounds.
Emails containing the words Palestine are blocked by Microsoft after employee protests
Microsoft employees are being barred from sending emails with the words “Palestine”, “Gaza” and “Genocide” in the body of their messages because of the company’s stance on the issue. “Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate,” Microsoft said. This comes days after Microsoft acknowledged its cloud and artificial intelligence contracts with Israel.
Microsoft has ties to the Israeli government, according to composer Brian Eno
Microsoft’s annual developer conference was disrupted by a group of protesters, including former employees. A former Microsoft employee interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote address on Monday, shouting, “How about you show Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?” and a Palestinian tech worker interrupted an executive’s presentation on Wednesday. The protests also came after Microsoft admitted it has contracts with Israel’s Ministry of Defence.
Microsoft’s smaller Surface Pro has a 12 inch display and starts at $799
Microsoft has unveiled a 13-inch Surface Laptop, which it claims is its first-ever alternative to the Surface Pro model. It has a fan inside, similar to the one inside the 12-inch Surface Pro 12. The laptop is powered by the Intel Core i7-6820U processor with 8GB RAM and will be available worldwide from August 30 for 39,999.
A Microsoft employee is calling the boss of an artificial intelligence company a war profiter
Microsoft has been designated a ‘priority boycott target’ by the boycott campaign over its ties with the Israeli government, a report said. The report added that Microsoft uses its cloud platform Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance. “I wasn’t informed…that Microsoft would sell my work to the Israeli military and government, with the purpose of spying on and murdering journalists,” a Microsoft employee said.
I have covered Microsoft for 25 years
Microsoft, which launched the world’s first commercial operating system with Windows 95 in October 1995, was founded by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in Seattle on October 24, 1966. It was later acquired by Oracle for $3 billion by Microsoft in 1994. It has since released over 200 versions of its operating system, including Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows Azure.
50 years ago, Microsoft was founded
Microsoft was founded in 1975, and IBM supplied software for the company’s first PC in 1980. “When Microsoft launched, it was in universities and…big companies locked in…air conditioning rooms, with multimillion-dollar computers, and they used digital technology,” Bloomberg cited Microsoft founder Melinda Gates as saying. Microsoft was also developing a variety of productivity apps throughout the 1980s.
There is evidence that Openai’s models helped train China
Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether Chinese rival DeepSeek used OpenAI’s framework to integrate its models into their own, The Wall Street Journal reported. It said DeepSeek believes that large amounts of data were dumped through its developer accounts, which it believes are affiliated with DeepSeek. Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating if DeepSeek’s technology was integrated into their own.