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Microsoft Word now merges formatting by default when inserting text - previously the original formatting was retained

Users of the Microsoft Word text editor are familiar with the situation when inserting a text fragment into existing formatted text results in the loss of all carefully formatted content. It seems that this problem is finally becoming a thing of the ...

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Phil Spencer has completed the "Officer on Deck" quest in Fallout 76 - and is preparing a nuclear response for the game's destroyed settlement

A player in Fallout 76 destroyed the camp of the head of Xbox with a nuclear explosion after the closure of several game studios, and Phil Spencer seems to be seeking retaliation. Spencer is an active player and won't let himself be bombed just like ...

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"Meritorious service to the company": Microsoft will unfreeze employee pay raises

The Microsoft Corporation plans to resume salary increases for its most effective employees. This was reported by Insider. The likely salary increase may occur this month. These plans were not announced company-wide, but the head of cloud technologi...

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Microsoft will launch the Xbox Store with mobile games in July - starting with its own Call of Duty: Mobile, Candy Crush, and Minecraft

In July, Microsoft will launch a marketplace with games, initially featuring titles from its own studios (such as Call of Duty: Mobile, Candy Crush, and Minecraft), and then expand the lineup to include other publishers. The Xbox Store, which will se...

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Microsoft will launch the Xbox Store with mobile games in July - starting with its own Call of Duty: Mobile, Candy Crush, and Minecraft

In July, Microsoft will launch a marketplace with games, initially featuring titles from its own studios (such as Call of Duty: Mobile, Candy Crush, and Minecraft), and then expand the lineup to include other publishers. Xbox Store, which will serve ...

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Microsoft is testing Windows 11's new Start menu with floating widgets and QR code recognition in Scissors

Microsoft has started testing a unique change in the Windows 11 Start menu, which may introduce a floating panel with "companion" widgets. The new Start menu feature is already available in the latest public testing versions of Windows 11. Although ...

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Microsoft wants more games in the vein of Hi-Fi Rush, shutting down its developer and offering voluntary severance agreements to the ZeniMax team

Strange things are happening at Microsoft. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a meeting to discuss the unit's future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees. This happened the day after Microsof...

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Chatbot for spies: Microsoft has launched an artificial intelligence model without an internet connection

Microsoft has created a generative artificial intelligence model based on GPT-4, specifically developed for US intelligence agencies. It operates without an internet connection. It has been reported that this is the first time Microsoft has deployed ...

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Microsoft is shutting down more Bethesda studios - developers of Redfall and Hi-Fi Rush among others

Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall developer Arkane Austin and Hi-Fi Rush developers, as well as The Evil Within developers Tango Gameworks, according to IGN. Alpha Dog Studios, developer of the mobile game Mighty D...

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Meet MAI-1: Microsoft's new AI model with 500 billion parameters that aims to "beat" the GPT

Microsoft appears to be working on its own large language model, which could potentially become the main competitor to Google AI, Anthropic, and OpenAI - despite the fact that the corporation itself invested $10 billion in the developer of ChatGPT an...

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April's Windows security updates could disrupt VPNs

Microsoft reports that April security updates for Windows may disrupt VPN functionality. The company is working on fixing this issue. “After installing the April 2024 security update (KB5036893) or a previous non-security update, Windows devices may...

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Microsoft adds offline mode for OneDrive on the web - for now for select categories of users

Microsoft is rolling out a new offline mode for OneDrive on the web for corporate and educational users of the service. This is part of an update to OneDrive that also includes improving the user interface, folder colors, and more. The new offline mo...

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Microsoft opened MS-DOS 4.0 code on GitHub - it turned out to be broken due to UTF-8 and timestamps

In April, Microsoft published the source code of its MS-DOS 4 operating system from 1986 on GitHub. This is not the first release of DOS code, but this one seems to break some critical files. As noted by the well-known developer and author of the OS/...

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Copilot in Microsoft 365 will soon "speak" in the Ukrainian language

In a recent interview, the director of "Microsoft Ukraine" Leonid Polupan talked about some features of the company's work and new products. For example, he mentioned that work is currently underway on the Ukrainian localization of Copilot. "We are ...

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Windows 10 will have a new feature that promotes creating a Microsoft account to archive files

With the release of the May update for Windows 10, a new feature will appear in the operating system that will strongly recommend the user to create a Microsoft account. In the update starting to roll out on May 14, this feature will be activated by ...

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