I have to say. I’m really very disappointed in Microsoft. Not only did they buy out Minecraft the game, but they basically ruined it for every privacy conscious family, parents and their kids, who can no longer play the game without giving away personal identifiable information (PII) on my children that Microsoft have zero rights to. 🤦‍♂️ – Honestly… Fuck you Microsoft.

Most of this insane power consumption happens during the models training, so the additional cost of prompting, is minimal. Facebook invented cool ways to exted the environmental damage far beyond the training stage, by dumping the dirty data center water into nearby water sources, but that’s more so a Facebook problem, than a fault of AI.

I would still never waste my own money, paying for any AI subscriptions that my employer doesn’t already pay for, no matter if we use them, or not.

I am also against aggressive scraping and taking everything as training data, disregarding the authors wishes and license. I allow it on my website, mostly as proof that no matter how much they scrape my stuff, the real me remains both a superior webdev and artist.

I am well aware this makes me come across really egotistical, especially after developers far better than me, embraced vibe coding, arguably way too much. To give an example, all attempts to get Microsoft Copilot, that’s embedded into SharePoint, to generate an extension/uBlock filter to make SharePoint revert to the old superior UI failed, but I was able to do that in three lines of code ( https://thecanine.smol.pub/ublock-filters ), in half an hour, despite me never seeing the code of that page before. After a few of these comparisons, it is increasingly hard to see most of these tools, as my replacement.

I am not even going to talk about the people trying to imitate my art style with AI, until they can show me a result where all the squares are the same size, in a grid and actually square.

Melinda Gates: I just knew Epstein was evil
The philanthropist and former wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recalls an immediate sense of unease in Jeffrey Epstein’s presence. ⌘ Read more

The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
Plus: AI bug hunting fuels Microsoft’s biggest-ever Patch Tuesday, ShinyHunters ransomware gang exploits an Oracle zero-day, and more. ⌘ Read more

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471970

Points: 17

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Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-ai-developers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457830

Points: 5

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
Article URL: https://disassociated.com/microsoft-users-addicted-ai-personal-assistant/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419023

Points: 4

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414367

Points: 9

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Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be ‘Addictive’
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-ai-scout-addictive-satya-nadella-404-media-copilot-2000702924

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413924

Points: 14

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselman about whether the company is in catch-up mode. ⌘ Read more

Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems
Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/doubling-down-controversial-claims-microsoft-accelerates-quantum-computing-plans

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380516

Points: 3

# Comm … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params
Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/models/mai-code-1-flash/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374466

Points: 21

# Comments: 6 ⌘ Read more

Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks. ⌘ Read more

Intelligent Terminal 0.1
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-intelligent-terminal-version-0-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373231

Points: 9

# Comments: 2 ⌘ Read more

Coreutils for Windows
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/coreutils

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372853

Points: 15

# Comments: 3 ⌘ Read more

Everyone Has Their Targets Set on the MacBook Neo
Dell, Microsoft, and others are unveiling new laptops to compete directly with the Neo, but not all are learning the right lessons from Apple. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341578

Points: 14

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@bender@twtxt.net Now that’s an interesting philosophical viewpoint right there. But this assumes that the “AI” we seemingly have available to us today is actually telligent, understands and has cognitive reasoning. It does not. All of these LLM models from big-tech companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Alibaba are all just very powerful, very large multidimensional neural networks with attention that are very good at statistical probabilities of ‘what comes next”. I think we get really upset over the wrong things sometimes. We need to continue to be upset that these 🤬 companies have basically destroyed any meaningful value of the concept of Copyright and Intellectual Property and Works of art. The so-called “AI” we have today is just a tool. Can you say for certain that the typewriter and the computer ruined our ability to write? Perhaps yes, but we still learn how to do so, likewise, I still think that learning to write code, research, read and write are all valuable skills to learn. Later on once you have the basics, you can defer some of the “tedious” work to these models, because frankly, they’re far better at inferencing and pattern matching than you or i will ever be, not because they’re better at pattern-matching per se, but because they have been trained on a very large corpus and they are much much faster at doing the same basic things we are far superior at.

Physical Media Is Making a Comeback. The Next Console Generation Might Kill It
Consoles with disc drives are the easiest way to enjoy all kinds of physical media, but that could end with the next-gen PlayStation 6 and Microsoft’s Project Helix. ⌘ Read more

Use Tiny11 to Rescue a Computer Running Windows 10
If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system that works on a wide range of computers. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257058

Points: 13

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Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-…

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386

Points: 4

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Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244434

Points: 54

# Comments: 14 ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun
Article URL: https://aiweekly.co/alerts/microsoft-drops-claude-code-after-budget-overrun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896

Points: 38

# Comments: 9 ⌘ Read more

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit. ⌘ Read more

Cybercriminal Twins Caught After They Forgot to Turn Off Microsoft Teams Recording
Plus: Instructure’s Canvas ransomware debacle comes to a close, an alleged dark net market kingpin gets arrested, OpenAI workers fall victim to a supply chain attack, and more. ⌘ Read more

Musk vs. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018. ⌘ Read more

This one comes from this years (now scrapped) April 1st DLSS 5 gag, that was originally supposed to use Microsofts AI - in ways similar to the Nvidia technology, which produced interesting, overly detailed results. I wanted to see if I could beat the AI thing at drawing something like that myself and many redraws later, this is my best result.

é sabido que o Minecraft é da Microsoft, mas fiquei agora a saber que o Candy Crush também é

Hora de anunciar algo novo: a @aiscarvalho e eu montámos uma consultadoria para ajudar organizações a adotar soluções e plataformas alternativas à big tech.

https://devicediversa.org/pt/

Ajudamos a informar e tomar decisões: tratamos de mapear necessidades, apresentar alternativas, elencar prós e contras da migração, e dar suporte e aconselhamento no processo de transição.

Aproveitamos a nossa experiência de 15+ anos a gerir e alojar a nossa infraestrutura digital para podermos ajudar outras orgs a fazê-lo, com expertise técnica e sabendo comunicá-la de forma clara e humana.

Por isso, se conheces quem esteja farto de depender de Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Dropbox, Salesforce, Zoom, Notion, AirTable, Adobe ou Figma, estamos aqui para ajudar a dar o salto!

@kiwu@twtxt.net I am trying to read our Information Security Office “mind” to grasp what they want. So far they seem to want to get logs from our BIG-IP F5 load balancers into Azure Sentinel, but the Telemetry Streaming plugin normally used for it is on maintenance mode, with deprecations happening on the F5 and Microsoft side soonish. So, yeah… “fun”. Oh, and they want it on production by tomorrow. LOLz!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think they are Windows users, going by the lack of attention to detail, and the fact they love DFS. Ha!

Microsoft Removes DEI From Employee Review Process
“[Diversity & Inclusion] is just gone and not mentioned. ⌘ Read more

Bavaria is moving to the Microsoft cloud: The state government intends to conclude a contract with the US corporation by the end of the year for the use of the cloud office package Microsoft 365.

Source: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bavaria-wants-to-move-to-Microsoft-cloud-by-year-end-11066929.html

🎉🎉🎉

Mais dois elementos do Governo Costa:

• Nelson Pinho, ex-lead de cenas na Microsoft Portugal, chefe de gabinete do SecEstado da Transição Digital (Aragão Azevedo, já citado acima)
  
• Vanda Jesus, diretora do programa Portugal Digital, ex. Chief Marketing Officer na Microsoft Portugal
  

(obrigado pela dica @ndantas@ndantas !)

E mais dois SecEstado dos governos Costa, que ao longo das carreiras passaram pela Microsoft: Rita Marques e Jorge Seguro Sanches

Ok vejo agora que o recém-eleito presidente da câmara do Porto, Pedro Duarte, também faz parte do rol, tendo integrado as equipas de “Corporate, External & Legal Affairs” e “European Government Affairs” na Microsoft desde 2011, o ano em que deixou o Parlamento, onde era deputado desde 1999

https://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc24/area-de-governo/assuntos-parlamentares/ministro

Gente amiga, podem ajudar-me a recordar casos de membros do governo que vieram das grandes tecnológicas para cargos relacionados com digitalização e tecnologia?

Os que me lembro:

• Bernardo Correia, SecEstado da Digitalização do Gov Montenegro, ex-diretor da Google em Portugal
  
• Manuel Dias, “CTO” do Estado no Gov Montenegro, ex-Microsoft e OutSystems
  
• André Aragão Azevedo, SecEstado da Transição Digital do 2º Gov Costa, ex-administrador da Microsoft Portugal
  

Eu sei que a lista é maior, e por isso adorava beneficiar da sabedoria coletiva pra poder completar a caderneta!

A mate just sent me Microsoft’s magnificent master piece diagram regarding the end of life of Windows 10: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/windows-10-support-wurde-am-14-oktober-2025-eingestellt-2ca8b313-1946-43d3-b55c-2b95b107f281

That’s what you get for training with zalgo. :-D Of course, this isn’t even proper German.

In case they fix it, here’s a screenshot of the enlarged frontal crash:

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Der ganze Vorgang ist archetypisch für die seit Jahrzehnten völlig ohne Not stattfindende politische Selbstverzwergung Europas.

A comment on heise about the recent AWS outage.

https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-zum-Totalausfall-bei-AWS-Nichts-gelernt-in-den-letzten-30-Jahren-10794622.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

(Too bad there’s no good translation for the great word “Selbstverzwergung”.)

I’m paraphrasing: Europe (and other regions) depend on US IT services, a lot, without an actual need. We saw AWS, Google, and Microsoft build large datacenters and then we thought “welp, shit, nothing we can do about that, guess we’ll just be an AWS customer from now on.” Nobody really went ahead and built German/European alternatives. And now we completely depend on the US for lots of our stuff.

The article even claims that there’s now a shortage of sysadmins in the EU? I’m not so sure. But I’d welcome it, makes my job more secure. 🤣

Hosting services, datacenters, software, everything, it’s all US stuff. Why do we accept this, why not build alternatives …

Microsoft Adding AI Facial Recognition, “You can only turn off 3 times a year.”
Al Notepad, Al Paint, Al Excel, Al Word, Al GitHub… ⌘ Read more

Authentication bypass via sequential user IDs in Microsoft SSO integration | Critical Vulnerability

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Ex-PM Sunak joins Microsoft and AI firm as paid advisor
The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog. ⌘ Read more

(g+) Schon altes Eisen?: Ältere Hardware mit Linux Mint weiternutzen
Der von Microsoft erzwungene Umstieg auf Windows 11 sorgt dafür, dass an sich noch brauchbare Hardware nicht mehr nutzbar ist. Mit Linux Mint lassen sich entsprechende PCs aber bequem weiterverwenden. Eine Anleitung von Martin Loschwitz ( Linux Mint, Storage) ![](https://cpx.golem.de/cpx.php?class=17&aid=19923 … ⌘ Read more

Game Pass: Microsoft verliert mit Black Ops 6 über 300 Millionen Dollar
Laut einem Medienbericht hat Microsoft durch die Aufnahme von Black Ops 6 in den Game Pass enorme Einnahmen eingebüßt. ( Xbox, Microsoft)

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Rechenzentren: Microsoft möchte sich von AMD und Nvidia lossagen
Microsoft-CTO Kevin Scott will hauptsächlich die eigenen Maia-Chips in Rechenzentren sehen. Zuerst muss aber der Bedarf gedeckt sein. ( Microsoft, AMD)

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Microsoft: Xbox Cloud Gaming bald kostenlos durch Werbefinanzierung
Microsoft soll gerade eine werbefinanzierte Version von Xbox Cloud Gaming testen. Das Streaming unterliegt einigen Einschränkungen. ( Cloud Gaming, Microsoft)

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Microsoft: KI knackt DNS-Sicherheitssysteme gegen Biowaffen
Forscher zeigen, wie künstliche Intelligenz Schutzmaßnahmen gegen die Entwicklung von Biowaffen und Giften umgehen könnte. ( KI, Sicherheitslücke)

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I know good people who work at Microsoft (like Guido van Rossum and Pamela Fox) but I don’t trust MS a iota. Making Processing work on VS Code… I don’t know if I like it. It leads people to a tool too much under MS control. I guess VS Code is too big to fail now?
I know about VS Codium… also, I’m struggling to move my stuff out of GitHub.

Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka opens up about his move to Los Angeles to rebuild the Sonic name. Now, he’s just released Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, a high speed racing video game inviting characters from Microsoft, Nickelodeon and more. ⌘ Read more

CTO of Microsoft Azure: “USA is Fascist Regime”
Microsoft employees chanting “Go away, Jews!” Then Microsoft employees praising the murder of Charlie Kirk. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft & Red Hat Employees Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder
At Microsoft & Red Hat – and across Big Tech – many employees are celebrating and encouraging murder. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Right now I’m basically just blocking entire ASN(s) at this point and large blocks of IP(s) from Anthropic, OPenAI, Microsoft and others.

@thecanine@twtxt.net We don’t use Microsoft at work – but similar products of other big companies. They’re all doing the same. The core product gets worse and worse, because they focus so much on vomiting “AI” over everything.

It will die down eventually. I hope.

We use all the Microsoft programs at work - Teams and Outlook especially.

After all kinds of technical problems with Teams, that sometimes go unresolved for over a year, Microsoft shifted their priorities away from fixing things and towards adding an annoying AI Copilot button, that just takes up space and all it does, is loads the website in Teams, so I disabled it. Soon they just add it back, but in a different row of icons, therefore it’s now a different button, you have to disable (I think they added yet another one, to the Teams, on my work phone and I had to disabled that too). Not too long after, the desktop one just enabled itself, because of “an error” and I can disable it, but doing so activates a popup, that begs you to turn it back on, every once in a while. You can’t disable the popup and can only click “Yes” or “Not now” on it. I still keep it disabled, out of principle, but yesterday I noticed yet another Copilot button, this time in the top right corner of my Outlook and this one cannot be disabled, on the business version of Outlook and even on the personal one, it’s only possible to do it through hidden privacy settings, by prohibiting the program from connecting to Microsoft servers, for extra “features”.

There’s people complaining about it online, so it’s clear nobody really wants it, but at this point Microsofts position is that you will have at least one useless AI button on your screen, at any given time, and you will be happy. And yes, their AI sucks and if I absolutely have to use AI for something, there’s already 2 better options, we have access to, at work.

As in regards to technology…

“Behind the scenes, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and EU’s Maroš Šefčovič hashed out technical annexes on automobiles, pharmaceuticals and digital trade.”

“Tech giants Microsoft’s cloud services, Apple’s iPhones and Google’s data solutions gain tariff-free pathway, fueling digital exports growth.”

“Digital Services: Microsoft announces a new 150 MW cloud data center in Berlin backed by tariff-free equipment imports; SAP commits to expanding U.S. R&D hubs in Austin, Texas.”

https://www.peacocktariffconsulting.com/can-the-new-u-s-eu-trade-pact-ignite-a-21st-century-global-commerce-revolution/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I have to say, this sounds much worse than our stuff at work. 🫩 (We don’t use any Microsoft services, at least not for core tools.)

Rollenspiel: Microsoft will 80 Euro für The Outer Worlds 2
Über alle Plattformen hinweg soll The Outer Worlds 2 80 Euro kosten. Damit folgt der Titel dem Trend steigender Spielepreise. ( The Outer Worlds, Microsoft)

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Windows: Skript schließt Lücke durch gelöschten Inetpub-Ordner
Viele Windows-Nutzer haben den zum April-Patchday erzeugten Inetpub-Ordner gelöscht, obwohl er Teil eines wichtigen Patches ist. Ein Skript korrigiert das. ( Sicherheitslücke, Microsoft)

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iPadOS 26 with Multitasking Improvements, Menubar, & New Liquid Glass UI
Apple has debuted iPadOS 26 today, complete with some notable new features and changes to the iPad operating system. First to notice is the new numerical versioning system, with iPadOS 26 jumping many version numbers ahead of the current iPadOS 18 version, following a numerical system much like Microsoft used to use for Windows (remember … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/09/ipado … ⌘ Read more

Keeper: Psychonauts-Macher lassen Leuchtturm laufen
Viel Licht, keine Kämpfe: Double Fine (Psychonauts 2) hat Keeper vorgestellt - ein Spiel um einen wandelnden Leuchtturm und seinen Freund. ( Double Fine, Microsoft)

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ROG Xbox Ally: Microsoft zeigt seine Antwort auf Steam Deck und Switch 2
Leaks gab es zuhauf, nun hat Microsoft zusammen mit Asus offiziell zwei PC-Handhelds vorgestellt, Spitzenmodell ist das ROG Xbox Ally X. ( Xbox, Microsoft)

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(g+) Erstes Recall im Test: Recall gibts auch ohne Microsoft - als KI-Lern-Tool
Nein, es ist nicht das Recall von Microsoft, sondern ein KI-Tool, das hilft, Wissen zu erfassen, sammeln und sortieren - und das ziemlich gut. Ein Test von Tobias Költzsch ( KI, Browser)

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Microsoft Surface Pro 12 im Test: Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen mit dem iPad
Endlich mal wieder ein gutes Windows-Tablet: Das Surface Pro 12 ist ausdauernd und gerade produktiv teils deutlich besser als ein iPad. Ein Test von Oliver Nickel ( Surface, Test)

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Anzeige: Microsoft-365-Umgebungen umfassend absichern
Wie sich Microsoft-365-Umgebungen absichern lassen - von Entra ID über Threat Protection bis zum Gerätemanagement mit Intune -, vermittelt dieser dreitägige Praxisworkshop mit Testumgebung. ( Golem Karrierewelt, Verschlüsselung)

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Windows: Designproblem erlaubt Aushebeln von Gruppenrichtlinien
In Windows schlummert ein Designproblem, das es normalen Nutzern und Malware erlaubt, von Admins gesetzte Gruppenrichtlinien außer Kraft zu setzen. Ein Bericht von Günter Born ( Windows, Microsoft)

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什麼是 AI 智能體？如何一步步構建屬於你自己的智能體？
什麼是 AI 智能體？下一件大事？Gartner 認爲：AI 智能體（AI Agents）將是未來的關鍵技術。OpenAI、Nvidia 和 Microsoft 正在大力投入，甚至像 Salesforce 這樣在 AI 領域一向低調的公司，也已悄然下注。而毫無疑問，這項技術目前正迅猛崛起。那麼，這一趨勢背後真正的是什麼？理解智能體（Agents）的關鍵在於：自主性（Agency）。不同於傳統的生成 ⌘ Read more

Steve Ballmer: “Ich war ein ziemlicher Arsch”
In einem Interview blickt Steve Ballmer auf seine Zeit bei Microsoft zurück. Vor allem nach seinem Ausstieg ist ihm der Abschied schwergefallen. ( Steve Ballmer, Podcast)

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Anzeige: Microsoft-Defender-Werkzeuge effektiv einsetzen
Wie Microsoft Defender im Zusammenspiel mit Endpoint-Management, EDR, Cloud-Apps und Office 365 zur Gefahrenabwehr eingesetzt wird, zeigt dieser zweitägige Praxisworkshop mit vielen Übungen. ( Golem Karrierewelt, Office-Suite)

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Microsoft Edit: Windows bekommt Editor für die Kommandozeile
Microsoft entwickelt mit Edit einen eigenen Texteditor fürs Terminal. Das erinnert an Vim und Nano in Linux. ( Powershell, Windows)

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Anzeige: Microsoft 365 Copilot sicher einführen und verwalten
Der strukturierte Umgang mit Microsoft 365 Copilot erfordert technisches Know-how und klare Prozesse. Ein Online-Workshop vermittelt das nötige Fachwissen für eine sichere und rechtskonforme Integration. ( Golem Karrierewelt, KI)

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Windows: Microsoft entfernt aufdringliches Verhalten von Edge für EU
Künftig sollen Standard-Browser auch wirklich zum Standard für weit mehr Dateitypen werden. Zudem können sie Edge für PDFs leicht wechseln. ( Windows 11, Microsoft)

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Windows 11: Microsoft fordert einheitliche USB-Ports bei Windows-Laptops
Kunden sollen sicher sein können, dass sie bei allen USB-C-Buchsen ihres Windows-PCs alle Features verlässlich nutzen können. ( PC & Notebooks, Notebook)

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Announcing dotnet run app.cs—A simpler way to start with C# and .NET 10
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de this is mind boggling. How come it looks just fine under Mosaic, and not under IE3? Man, am I glad I don’t use a Microsoft browser!

@bender@twtxt.net Well it’s really just for other fellow humans that might not know better and what Microsoft does with your hard™ work 🤣

For context, this is a funny
Interaction between an engineer and copilot on Microsoft’s core programming Language 🤣🤯

Microsoft Creates MS-DOS EDIT.COM Clone in Rust
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IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code
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Announcing TypeScript Native Previews
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New (February 2025) paper, https://cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mgt.tum.de/faculty_and_research/mppe/39_Nora_von_Ingersleben-Seip_How_the_European_Union_Fell_Out_Of_Love_With_Open-Source_Software.pdf , describes “How the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Software”:

“A coalition of determined open-source software (OSS) advocates and a handful of technology experts working in the European Commission set out in 2004 to end Microsoft’s monopoly. They almost succeeded. This article reveals how they managed to change the EU’s software policies, made Microsoft lobbyists work overtime - and in the end, and despite their best efforts, could not withstand the power of proprietary companies’ lobbying campaigns.

Drawing on the Multiple Streams Framework, the article explains the European Commission’s decision to promote OSS and open standards in 2004, and its puzzling decision to reverse course just a few years later, in 2010, despite its unchanged rhetoric about the benefits of openness. The analysis reveals three key factors that drove the changes in the EU’s policies.

In 2004, OSS advocates managed to frame the EU’s dependency on proprietary software as a problem – and the promotion of OSS and open standards as the solution.

In 2010, #Microsoft and other proprietary companies used their existing connections in Brussels to sow doubt about the maturity and cost of #OSS among #EU policymakers.”

25 years later we’re where we started.

#OpenSource #EIF

My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
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Microsoft Edit is now open source
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Docker at Microsoft Build 2025: Where Secure Software Meets Intelligent Innovation
This year at Microsoft Build, Docker will blend developer experience, security, and AI innovation with our latest product announcements. Whether you attend in person at the Seattle Convention Center or tune in online, you’ll see how Docker is redefining the way teams build, secure, and scale modern applications. Docker’s Vision for Developers At Microsoft Build… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net right. I wonder what prompted the measure. Perhaps Microsoft doesn’t want any scrapper but Copilot to be lurking around? That might even sound as anti-competitive. I wonder how long will it take for lawsuits to kick in.

Minus 100 points
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Microsoft Uses Minecraft to Spread DEI Messaging, Notch Calls That Evil
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Why do Saturation and Luminance go all the way to 240, but Hue goes only to 239? And why 239 anyway?
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Microsoft to Employees: Avoid Romance & Give Your Toddler a Sex Change
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Analyzing CVE-2025-31191: A macOS security-scoped bookmarks-based sandbox escape
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Using C++ type aliasing to avoid the ODR problem with conditional compilation, part 1
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PewDiePie | I installed linux
All I can say is.. what? I’m not even sure why this popped up in my youtube frontpage. I don’t generally watch PewDiePie, but in all honesty, it’s a pretty glowing review of Linux, Arch, Hyprland and more. He points out some warts and things here and there around compatibility, but all in all, “PewDiePie takes aim at Microsoft” was not on my 2025 Bingo card…

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Simplifying Enterprise Management with Docker Desktop on the Microsoft Store
We’re excited to announce that Docker Desktop is now available on the Microsoft Store! This new distribution channel enhances both the installation and update experience for individual developers while significantly simplifying management for enterprise IT teams. This milestone reinforces our commitment to Windows, our most widely used platform among Docker Desktop users. By partnering with… ⌘ Read more

Windows RDP lets you log-in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is ok with that
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Docker Desktop 4.41: Docker Model Runner supports Windows, Compose, and Testcontainers integrations, Docker Desktop on the Microsoft Store
Docker Desktop 4.41 brings new tools for AI devs and teams managing environments at scale — build faster and collaborate smarter. ⌘ Read more

** Microsoft Fortifies MSA Signing Infrastructure with Azure Confidential VMs After Storm-0558…**

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In the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape, 2023 saw one of the most talked-ab … ⌘ Read more

Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?
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