Microsoft: The Calm Before A 2026 Earnings Reacceleration

Microsoft Corporation is positioned for exceptional execution and share price gains in 2026. Click here for this updated look ...
Redmondmag.com

Microsoft Previews Azure HorizonDB as Cloud Native PostgreSQL Engine

Introduced at Ignite late last year, Azure HorizonDB is a new PostgreSQL service designed for higher performance and ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Mastering SQL Server Indexing: What Every .NET Developer Needs to Know

At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas developer conference, SQL expert Denny Cherry will share essential indexing ...
TweakTown

Steam Machine is Microsoft's 'worst nightmare,' games analyst says

TL;DR: Valve's new Steam Machine poses a significant threat to Microsoft's Xbox strategy by potentially dominating the PC-console hybrid market. As Microsoft aims to merge Xbox and Windows for gaming, ...
GamesRadar+

Steam Machine is "Microsoft's worst nightmare" according to analysts, and one day Xbox games might be more beneficial to Valve than their own publisher: "Xbox console sales ...

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GamesRadar+

Steam Machine is "a console that refuses to admit it's a console," analyst says, but "Valve isn't trying to beat Sony or Microsoft at their own game so much as rewrite the rules"

Valve's new Steam Machine is set to bring PC gaming to living rooms everywhere when it launches next year, but is it a fierce new console rival that'll compete directly against the likes of ...
Polygon

Will Microsoft support Xbox's existential threat, Steam Machine?

Excitement abounds for Valve's quirky cuboid, Steam Machine. But the console-PC hybrid sounds awfully a lot like what Microsoft is hoping to accomplish with its next-generation hardware. Even in an ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time

Head of Microsoft’s AI division Mustafa Suleyman thinks that AI developers and researchers should stop trying to build conscious AI. “I don’t think that is work that people should be doing,” Suleyman ...
IEEE

Overcoming Client Data Deficiency in Federated Learning by Exploiting Unlabeled Data on the Server

Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm involving multiple clients to train a server model. In practice, clients often possess limited data and are not always ...
marktechpost

Microsoft Releases Agent Lightning: A New AI Framework that Enables Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based Training of LLMs for Any AI Agent

How do you convert real agent traces into reinforcement learning RL transitions to improve policy LLMs without changing your existing agent stack? Microsoft AI team releases Agent Lightning to help ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: Sept Windows Server updates cause Active Directory issues

Microsoft has confirmed that the September 2025 security updates are causing Active Directory issues on Windows Server 2025 systems. As the company explains in a Windows release health dashboard ...
Campus Technology

Microsoft Intros New AI-Powered Teaching and Learning Tools

Microsoft has unveiled a number of updates bringing AI-powered experiences to teaching and learning. New features include a "Teach" AI tool for Copilot, a "Study and Learn" AI agent, and more. Rolling ...