A code issue let Copilot pick up emails in sent and draft folders even though they were marked as confidential, Microsoft says. The company began rolling out a fix earlier this month.

They’re finally letting you get older versions of their core apps that actually last for life, and you can do this on Mac or PC.

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.

Phil Spencer is retiring as Microsoft Gaming CEO after nearly 40 years with the Xbox owner. Asha Sharma, most recently president of product development for Microsoft's CoreAI division, will be replacing Spencer as the new chief and executive vice president of Microsoft Gaming.

The breakthrough comes from Microsoft researchers and could enable the preservation of terabytes of data for a very long time.

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files.

Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for over 10,000 years at room temperature. That led Microsoft to declare, “Our results demonstrate that Silica could become the archival storage solution for the digital age.”

The Microsoft president said American firms will have to compete with subsidies provided by Beijing to Chinese companies.

Tech giant uses renewable power purchase agreements to offset energy purchases, but critics say it is still burning fossil fuels from the grid.

AI’s soaring energy demand is pushing Microsoft and Amazon toward nuclear power, reshaping data center strategy, electricity markets, and the future of baseload energy.

Windows 11 is testing a taskbar feature that lets you share app windows directly with Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot and other AI Agents,