Microsoft has rolled out stricter performance management policies that could make it harder for low-scoring employees to remain with or return to the company, according to a recent report by Business Insider. In an internal email, Chief People Officer Amy Coleman outlined new measures designed to streamline accountability, including a two-year rehire ban for employees who exit due to poor performance.
Microsoft has announced it is "delaying" or "pausing" several data centre projects, including a planned $1 billion facility in Ohio, signalling a potential cooling of the infrastructure boom driven by artificial intelligence demand.
Microsoft has terminated two software engineers who disrupted company events last week to protest the tech giant’s artificial intelligence contracts with the Israeli military, according to internal documents viewed by CNBC. The employees—Ibtihal Aboussad, based in Canada, and Vaniya Agrawal, an Indian-American engineer—interrupted speeches during Microsoft’s 50th-anniversary celebrations in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration in Redmond, Washington, was disrupted on Friday when two employees staged pro-Palestinian protests, voicing opposition to the company’s ties to the Israeli military and its use of artificial intelligence in conflict zones.
Microsoft has announced that it will retire Skype in May 2025 as the company is encouraging users to transition to Microsoft Teams, which will now serve as its primary communication and collaboration tool.
Microsoft has recently introduced Muse, an artificial intelligence model designed to generate both game visuals and gameplay actions. Developed in collaboration with Ninja Theory, a subsidiary of Xbox Game Studios, Muse aims to assist in game development by predicting game dynamics based on human input.
Tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a group linked to Chinese AI startup DeepSeek obtained data from OpenAI’s systems in an unauthorised manner. The allegations, reported by Bloomberg News, have added fuel to the fire in an already heated competition for dominance in artificial intelligence.
TikTok is facing down a US law that ordered the company to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or be banned in the United States
A joint investigation has revealed the extensive collaboration between Microsoft and the Israeli military, highlighting the deep integration of the tech giant’s cloud and AI services in military operations.
Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft's Vice President of GenAI, is leaving the company to join OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, according to a recent statement by Microsoft.
After losing a jury trial against game store Epic Games in December, a judge has now ruled that Google must open a key piece of its Android smartphone operating system
Google owner Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram and Facebook, are forecast to spend a combined $160 billion in capital expenditures next year,
To meet the growing energy demands of its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, Microsoft has signed a 20 year deal to bring the inactive Three Mile Island nuclear power plant back online, according to a recent power purchase agreement by Constellation Energy, the current owner of the Three Mile Island facility.
Microsoft recently announced that its board has approved a new share buyback program valued at up to $60 billion. In addition, the company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.83 per share, marking a 10% increase over the previous quarter’s dividend.
Microsoft has announced plans to lay off 650 employees from its Xbox division, according to a recent report by Bloomberg News. This marks the third round of layoffs by the company this year, states the report.
Microsoft recently held a cybersecurity summit to discuss ways to improve security, following the global IT outage in July caused by a faulty software update from CrowdStrike.
AMD has recently announced that Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 update, version 24H2, will enhance the performance of its recently launched Zen 5 CPUs.
Microsoft's latest security update has inadvertently caused significant disruption for users who run both Windows and Linux on the same machine. The update, which was designed to address a two-year-old vulnerability in the GRUB boot loader—a critical piece of software used by many Linux systems—has led to widespread issues with Linux installations failing to boot.
Microsoft has just launched a unified Teams app that supports both personal and work accounts on Windows 11, Windows 10, and Mac. This new version eliminates the need for separate apps, which previously confused users who had to juggle between 'Microsoft Teams (free)' for personal use and 'Microsoft Teams (work or school)' for professional and educational purposes.
