Microsoft invests a billion in OpenAI
Will develop tech for Azure
Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman.
Microsoft pays $25 million to make a bribery charge go away
A little ironic -- don't cha think?
Software king of the world Microsoft has agreed to pay $25 million to settle US government investigations into what now must be called "alleged" bribery by former employees in Hungary.
A fifth of big corporations are still on Windows 7
Hackers rub paws with glee
With just six months until Microsoft officially ends support for its nine year old operating system Windows 7, almost a fifth of large enterprises still haven’t migrated to Windows 10.
Microsoft has not killed off its dedicated streaming Scarlett
Still working on it
Microsoft is still making a dedicated streaming device to complement its next-gen Scarlett console offering.
Microsoft "bug" was a feature
Vole doesn't think you need to back up your registry
Microsoft has issued a warning to all Windows 10 users that a serious and long-running bug in the platform was “by design”.
Bill Gates says he has never got over one mistake
We missed doing an Android
Software King of the World, and sworn enemy of the mosquito, Bill Gates, says he never has really got over his biggest mistake.
Microsoft shows off Windows 10 running Linux
Comes with its own Linux kernel
Software King of the World Microsoft has just released a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build featuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 which allows you to run more Linux software on Windows and with better performance than Vole's previous attempts.
Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds
Double the rain
Software King of the World Microsoft has decided to link its cloud with one belonging to the licence fee collector Oracle.
Macworld admits Apple has lost the plot
Cut and pastes Fudzilla arguments
You know that there is something wrong when a fanatical Apple fanboy rag like Macworld starts to use phrases to describe the fruity cargo cult which might have come from Fudzilla.
Bing is no longer a joke
It took ten years but now makes big money
It is the tenth birthday of Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Bloomberg wants to point out that it has gone from a joke to a money spinner for Redmond.