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It might not get the same kind of attention as Google and Apple, but Microsoft is still one of the biggest and most powerful tech companies operating today. It runs Azure, one of the biggest cloud computing services, and maintains Windows 11 and the whole Office suite of software. It also makes plenty of Surface hardware and has a whole slew of gaming products, including the Xbox Series X. But the company is ever expanding — building new hardware, acquiring new game studios, and making sure that even if Microsoft doesn’t run your phone, it can touch plenty of the apps on it.

Windows 11 gets some much-needed HDR improvements

The latest Windows 11 update lets you stream HDR video even when HDR is turned off elsewhere.

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Microsoft starts testing Xbox Copilot on iOS and Android

The Copilot for Gaming is now available for Xbox testers to try out on mobile devices.

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Surface Laptop 13-inch review: a little less for a little less

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Microsoft’s slightly cheaper notebook is great, but Windows on Arm can still complicate things for some.

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Microsoft is racing to build an AI ‘agent factory’

An interview with Microsoft’s new CoreAI chief.

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Is Panos working on an Amazon foldable?

Former Surface chief Panos Panay left Microsoft for Amazon nearly two years ago, and now rumors are emerging that Amazon is in the early stages of creating a “large-sized foldable device” that might compete with Huawei’s folding laptop. That’s the rumor from Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who says the device, if development progresses, is “projected to enter mass production in late 2026 or 2027.” Perhaps the Surface Neo will finally become an Amazon reality.

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Watch the Build keynote in 15 minutes.

The big focuses of Microsoft’s Build 2025 keynote were AI agents, the open agentic web, and Copilot upgrades that aim to solve coding bugs in a pinch. Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry is also expanding its model list to include Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini from Elon Musk’s xAI. Check out our video for more.

Microsoft’s plan to fix the web: letting every website run AI search for cheap

NLWeb starts by offering ChatGPT-level search to any site or app, with just a few lines of code. It’s a new vision for the web.

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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI can save the web, not destroy it

One of Microsoft’s top AI leaders on the future of agents, web search, and AI art.

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Microsoft Edge is adding translation for PDFs.

Instead of copying and pasting the text you want to translate, a new feature coming to Edge will let you convert a PDF into over 70 languages by simply clicking the “translate” button in the browser’s address bar. The feature is rolling out to Canary users now, but will be generally available next month.

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