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UK antitrust regulator confirms April decision to block $68.7BN Microsoft-Activision gaming mega-merger, rejecting Microsoft’s arguments that it should overturn its original prohibition due to developments. Microsoft’s restructured proposal was recently reviewed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which announced a new investigation today. The tech giant would not acquire …

Microsoft doesn’t know or want to discuss how China-backed hackers obtained a key to covertly break into hundreds of email inboxes, including those of multiple federal government institutions. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft said it was “ongoing investigation” how the hackers obtained a Microsoft signature key and used it …

Microsoft unveiled Security Copilot today as part of its ongoing effort to incorporate generative AI into all of its products. This new tool promises to “summarize” and “make sense” threat intelligence. Microsoft promoted Security Copilot in a vague statement as a mechanism to correlate attack data while prioritizing security problems. …

With updated drivers, Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are supporting Microsoft’s DirectStorage initiatives. We just need the games to show up now. The most significant new feature in this week’s DirectStorage 1.1 release from Microsoft is GPU decompression for Windows PC games. The next logical step in an industry-wide initiative to …

Apple’s toughest competitor when it comes to smartphones is definitely Samsung. When it comes to laptops, things change. Microsoft is the one the Cupertino-based company needs to keep an eye on. Microsoft recently launched the Surface Studio, which is a lot like an iMac. However, this isn’t the immediate problem …

Microsoft laid low in the past few months, but on Wednesday it became clear what they were busy with. The tech giant introduced a new update that will reach more than 400 million Windows 10 devices, and it also unveiled the Surface Studio and the Surface Dial. Of course, the …

Everyone knows that the toughest competition in the game console market goes down between Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation. Every time one of the companies releases something new, the other one is definitely close behind with something just as impressive, or even more amazing. This time around, Microsoft was …

The majority of Windows users complained about the notifications Microsoft bombarded all of us concerning the free upgrade to Windows 10. For those who didn’t upgrade to the latest version of the globally used software, there is a good news. These notifications will end soon, given the fact that the …

Microsoft revealed the Xbox One S, the latest member of the Xbox One family last month, and according to the company, gamers can expect it to hit the shelves as early as August 2. The 2TB game console will not be available globally at the beginning of next month, however, …

All of us who didn’t opt for upgrading to Windows 10 know how annoying the constant reminder of the operating system can get. Rejecting the offer doesn’t always work, so a lot of users were put in the position where they were faced with an unwanted upgrade to the latest …