Microsoft wants to make customers love Windows, CEO Satya Nadella said at the Windows 10 event in January. But the company wants to do that without changing the fact that you don't buy Windows from Microsoft - you buy it as part of a PC that Microsoft has little control over. By loading the Superfish software that intercepts secure web traffic (to insert ads, but using a poorly-encrypted root certificate that hackers can also target, meaning you no longer know what to trust), Lenovo has shown quite how much of a problem that can be.
Microsoft is laying off more employees, a new round after they cut thousands last year. It seems like many big tech companies are doing the same.
Amidst the AI frenzy of 2023, major players like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are in the spotlight, launching their own generative AI systems.
Microsoft has made it easy for iPhone users to check their mobile updates on Windows-enabled computers.