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January is coming to an end, and Microsoft has already published the Game Pass catalogue for February, and now it has become known which titles will be available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers.
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI have teamed up to appeal a class action complaint accusing the companies of scraping code to create GitHub's artificial intelligence-based Capilot tool.
It has been reported that Microsoft is working on a major update to Windows Explorer that will change its design and bring new features, such as deeper integration with Microsoft 365 and OneDrive.
Microsoft has started testing a split-screen feature for two tabs in its Edge browser. The feature was first reported by a user under the nickname @Leopeva64-2 on Reddit and can now be enabled by checking the box in the experimental menu of the Canary beta version of Microsoft Edge. After you enable it and restart the browser, a new button will appear next to the address bar, which will allow you to split the Edge window into two separate tabs.
Microsoft plans to shut down the virtual social platform AltspaveVR, which it acquired in 2017. The announcement was published on the website of the platform developers. This is happening against the backdrop of layoffs of more than 10,000 employees due to the "economic crisis."
Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 Home and Pro editions on January 31. This applies to the license keys for the operating systems, which are required to activate and download them. As a reminder, support for Windows 10 is due to end on October 14, 2025.
Microsoft is adding features to Windows 11 that are very similar to those in the third-party audio tool EarTrumpet. Windows insiders have noticed that in the latest build of the system, you can enable a new volume mixer that provides quick access to switching audio outputs and controlling the volume of programs right from the taskbar.
This week, Microsoft plans to launch Azure OpenAI, a service that will allow companies to integrate DALL-E-like services into their own cloud applications. The service has been in testing for more than a year and will soon include access to ChatGPT, the conversational artificial intelligence that was all the rage last year.
On Friday, Microsoft announced that an update that was supposed to fix a Windows problem with application shortcuts disappearing from the Start menu or taskbar. But a few days ago, IT administrators described a similar problem on Twitter and Reddit, and Microsoft confirmed that it was related to the recent Microsoft Defender update.
Native versions of Apple TV and Apple Music apps have become available for Windows in preview versions in the Microsoft Store. Their availability was reported by The Verifier with reference to MacRumors. Previously, to use these services, users had to use the old iTunes application.
Microsoft has introduced a new tier for its Microsoft 365 subscriptions - Microsoft 365 Basic. For $1.99 you get 100 GB of storage in OneDrive with some additional features that fall between the free option and the $6.99/month personal subscription.
Microsoft has provided its employees with the possibility of unlimited leave. This became known from the letter of Kathleen Hogan, HR Director at Microsoft. Microsoft calls its unlimited leave "discretionary leave" and it will apply to all full-time employees in the United States.
Microsoft is moving some standard features from Teams to its Teams Premium subscription. It's currently available as a free 30-day trial, but it looks like it won't be long until the full launch. At release, subscribers will have exclusive access to some features such as real-time translated subtitles, special collaborative scenes, and virtual assignment options.
As it became known earlier, Microsoft is going to integrate ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, into its Bing search engine, which should make it competitive with Google. But it seems that it will not end there, and the company is also considering integrating the system into its Office products, namely Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Microsoft announced that it plans to launch a new version of its search engine Bing, which will use a chatbot with artificial intelligence CahtGPT. According to The Infromation, the company hopes to do this by the end of March to make Bing competitive with Google.
