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… Prior to that Simonyi had spent more than 20 years at Microsoft, overseeing the creation of Excel and Word. Perry Clarke is now CTO of Application Systems at Microsoft, after spending nearly a decade running Microsoft 365 Core, the core services and components of Microsoft 365. …
… Microsoft originally switched to Microsoft Gaming at the same time it announced its plan to acquire Activision Blizzard in 2022. Phil Spencer was promoted to Microsoft Gaming CEO at the time, in an effort to further position Microsoft’s gaming efforts across Xbox, PC, mobile, and the cloud. …
… Microsoft is rolling out these new Copilot features as the default experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Premium subscribers. Microsoft must face a $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences. …
… There, Microsoft claims it’s put “significant efforts” behind “new consumer offerings” for Android. Link: Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’ | https://www.theverge.com/news/916601/microsoft-xbox-mobile-store-comment | The Verge
… Inside the US, Google may even be forced to carry stores like Microsoft’s inside its own Google Play Store — assuming Microsoft can wait that long. Microsoft is currently trying to convince the judge in Epic v. …
… Microsoft is giving its Xbox employees an Xbox email address. After scrapping Microsoft Gaming and promising Xbox employees that “We are Xbox,” Microsoft is now giving its Xbox employees an Xbox email address. …
… Microsoft is rolling out these new Copilot features as the default experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Premium subscribers, and they’re also available with Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans.
Microsoft has scrapped Microsoft Gaming in favor of Xbox today, and it’s also starting to roll out a new Xbox logo. The new logo started appearing on Microsoft’s campus this week, just in time for Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s all-hands meeting earlier today. …
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants everyone to know: “We are Xbox.” Just last week, she scrapped Microsoft Gaming as the name of Microsoft’s gaming division in favor of simply Xbox. …
… Microsoft will remain OpenAI’s “primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities.” But OpenAI can “now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider.” That lets OpenAI pursue its goals … …
