Category: MICROSOFT

Microsoft’s Paint app, which has been around for over 30 years, is finally getting a much-needed update. The new version of the app, which is currently rolling out to Windows Insiders, adds support for layers and transparency.

Microsoft on Monday admitted that backups of two former employees’ workstation profiles and internal Microsoft Teams messages of these two employees with their colleagues were exposed accidentally, adding that no customer data was exposed.

Panos Panay, Windows’ chief product officer who also led the company’s Surface devices, on Monday announced he is leaving Microsoft after “19 incredible years”. Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of modern life, search, and devices, will take his place as the head of the Windows and Surface businesses.

Windows Defender is a built-in antivirus and security software that protects your Windows device from malware and other threats. It is a reliable and effective antivirus program, but there may be times when you need to disable it temporarily. For example, you may need to disable Windows Defender to install a third-party antivirus program or to run a specific program that is being blocked by Windows Defender.

Tech giant Microsoft has shut down its most applauded feature, “Web Select” — from Edge browser.

Microsoft will block third-party printer drivers from being automatically installed through Windows Update starting in 2025.

Microsoft is beta testing a new background removal tool in Paint, its classic image editing app.

Microsoft is discontinuing its requirement for Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to use Microsoft Edge for accessing widgets and searching results.

Microsoft has announced the retirement of its Visual Studio for Mac and said that the support for the latest version, 17.6, will continue for another year, until August 31, 2024.

Microsoft has announced that it will be killing off WordPad in future versions of Windows.

Microsoft has said that it’s investigating reports of a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) with a “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” error message that has appeared on some Windows 11 PCs following the installation of an update released earlier this week.

Microsoft’s Windows 95 release on August 24th, 1995 was a highly anticipated launch. Jay Leno helped launch the software alongside Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, with a lot of jokes and the appearance of the entire Windows 95 development team on stage.

Microsoft is reportedly working to bring new artificial intelligence (AI) features to applications like Paint and Photos on Windows 11.

Microsoft has introduced the public preview of the popular programming language Python in Excel.

Hotmail users worldwide have been experiencing email delivery problems after Microsoft misconfigured the domain’s DNS SPF record. The email issues began late last night, with users and admins reporting on Reddit, Twitter, and Microsoft forums that their Hotmail emails were failing due to SPF validation…

Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down the Xbox 360 store in July 2024.

Microsoft has announced that Windows 365 Switch is now available in public preview.

Microsoft has now announced to shut down its digital assistant Cortana app on Windows 11.

Microsoft on Thursday introduced new tools and integrations — including a new Copilot offering for the frontline workforce — that bring the power of generative AI to service professionals on the frontline.

Microsoft has announced that users will soon be able to experience the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Bing in third-party browsers on the web and mobile.