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Microsoft Ramping Up Its 'Responsible AI Program'

Microsoft this week announced it will be increasing its hiring to support its "responsible AI" efforts.

Microsoft Viva Getting AI and Glint Upgrades Soon

Microsoft on Thursday announced that Copilot artificial intelligence additions and more enhancements will be coming this year to the platform.

Office 2013 Support Officially Ends

In a final goodbye notice, Microsoft marked the end of Office 2013's product life on Wednesday.

SharePoint 2013 Workflow for Microsoft 365 Ending Support in Three Years

Microsoft has announced it will be ending support for SharePoint 2013 workflow for Microsoft 365 users over the next three years.

Microsoft Surface Hub 2S Becoming a Teams Rooms Device

Microsoft recently announced Surface Hub 2S changes, plus Signature Teams Rooms plans.

Microsoft Planning Additional Job Cuts in May

Microsoft's ongoing layoffs are hitting its home turf, with new notices affecting 1,248 people in the Redmond, Bellevue and Issaquah, Wash. areas in May.

Microsoft's Loop App Now Available in Preview

Microsoft's latest collaboration application, Loop, is now available as a public preview.

Microsoft To Add ISV Designations to MCPP

Microsoft's top partner executives detailed several changes it plans to make to the 6-month-old Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP).

AI Powered Microsoft 365 Copilot Shows Off Impressive Capabilities

Microsoft this week demonstrated how its natural language AI capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot will widely extend across the company's products and services.

Microsoft Releases SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Update 23H1

Microsoft unveiled update 23H1 for the SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SE) product and a handful of service and plan changes this week.

AI Ethics Team Gutted at Microsoft

The team that managed the ethics surrounding Microsoft's artificial intelligence (AI) software development was laid off this month.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Viva Sales 'Copilot' AI Solutions Preview Launched

New Microsoft Dynamics 365 "Copilot" artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are now available in preview form, according to a Monday announcement by Microsoft.

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Mobile World Congress 2023: Microsoft Expands Wireless Azure Services

A handful of Azure for Operators improvements and additions for 5G communications service providers (CSPs) were unveiled by Microsoft this week atthe Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.

Additional Licensing Options Coming to Microsoft Syntex Document Processing

A Microsoft Syntex pay-as-you-go licensing option will be comin in March for document processing.

Deeper Control Support Coming to Windows Update for Business Deployment Service

Microsoft has increased the control users have when installing Windows client drivers and firmware.

Layoffs Hit Microsoft's LinkedIn

Just days after reports that it has gutted its core metaverse staff, Microsoft is said to be laying off employees within the LinkedIn professional networking site.

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Microsoft Lays Off Core Metaverse Team

According to a Thursday report by The Information (paywalled), those working on Microsoft's Industrial Metavers Core team has been cut.

GitHub Announces Widespread Layoffs

Open source developer repository GitHub (which is owned by Microsoft) announced this week that it would be reducing its workforce by 10 percent.

Microsoft Edge To Get New Adobe Acrobat PDF Engine

Microsoft and Adobe have collaborated on "natively embedding" new Adobe Acrobat PDF technology into the Microsoft Edge browser for Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems, according to a Wednesday Microsoft announcement.

Microsoft Brings AI Enhancements to Bing and Edge

Microsoft has launched a new version of its Bing search engine, powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 AI.