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macOS and Windows both have their own advantages. If you're planning to move to Windows, make sure you know what you're giving up.

Microsoft has enabled zone redundancy on the Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management, following its arrival on Premium v2 in December. Standard v2 starts at $700 per month against $2,801 for Premium v2, but carries a 99.95% SLA rather than 99.99%. Zone redundancy can only be configured when creating an instance. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. This is similar to lawsuits filed by […]

This is a step-by-step guide to checking the health of your Windows hard drive and what you can do if you get a bad result.

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

Introduction When shopping onine, I usually find myself looking at two things before making a purchase: Product ratings and reviews since I cannot examine the product physically.Products with high ratings and reviews tend to make the product trustworthy.This motivated me to explore how these factors using a sample dataset from Jumia. I analyzed a dataset of products listed to investigate whether pricing, discounts, ratings and review counts directly influence one another. By transforming this raw e-commerce data into an interactive Excel dashboard this project uncovers how strategic pricing directly impacts customer engagement. Data Inspection Before data cleaning, I inspected all the data to find missing values, duplicates, inconsistent formats, and values that could affect the accuracy of the analysis. Data Cleaning Before beginning the analysis, I cleaned and standardized the dataset to ensure that the values were accurate, consistent, and suitable for analysis in Excel. The main cleaning steps involved correcting data formats, handling missing values, and identifying duplicate records. Correcting Data Formats I first reviewed each column and converted the values into appropriate data types. Prices - The price columns were initially stored as text because they included currency symbols (KSh), commas, and in some cases, price ranges such as KSh 1,620 - KSh 1,980 . I used Find and Replace (Ctrl + H) to remove the KSh text and other unnecessary characters then converted the values to numerical format. For products with price ranges, I calculated the average of the minimum and maximum prices and used this value for further analysis. I then recalculated the discount percentages based on the standardized prices. Ratings - Ratings were stored as text in formats such as 4 out of 5. I used Find and Replace (Ctrl + H) to remove out of 5 and converted the remaining values into numerical ratings.These were also formated as texts i.e 4 out of 5 . Review - All the reviews coun

Memory issues could be behind your PC's performance problems, app crashes and random restarts. A Windows tool could help you understand what's going wrong.

Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. As part of the lawsuit's discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot […]

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Microsoft is partnering with TCL to bring its Xbox app to supported TCL smart TVs. The Xbox app lets you connect to Xbox Cloud Gaming and stream Game Pass titles or select games you own as part of a subscription. The Xbox app will arrive on TCL TVs at some point "in the coming months," […]

Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this year, Project Zenith is designed for new developer-focused devices with 64GB or more of unified memory. "Project Zenith devices come with a preconfigured Windows setup for development and a […]

Microsoft Execution Containers provide a cross-platform framework for isolating AI agents within secure sandboxes to protect private data and system integrity. This technology allows developers to manage the lifecycle of autonomous code while ensuring that unpredictable agentic workflows do not access sensitive local files or unauthorized network resources. The Evolution of Agent Security and Isolation Trust remains a significant hurdle for developers building modern AI agents, particularly those operating on edge systems. When agents combine local processing with cloud-based intelligence, they often require access to sensitive information to be effective. However, granting this access creates a risk that the agent might call unintended APIs or compromise private user data. Historical attempts to launch autonomous agents in the 1990s largely failed because of these security concerns. Delivering arbitrary code to local machines proved too risky for mainstream adoption. Today, hardware-assisted virtualization has changed the landscape. This technology serves as the foundation for modern security models, including isolated operating system components and cross-platform tools like the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Microsoft now utilizes these virtualization advancements to build a more reliable framework for agent operations. By running agents in secure containers or microVMs, the system separates their activities from the primary operating system. This isolation ensures that even if an agent receives a poorly constructed prompt, it cannot delete critical system files or leak sensitive information. Managing Developer Environments Developers need a way to build code in flexible environments while still planning for restricted production deployments. Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) address this by offering a policy-based restriction model. This framework allows for the creation of managed, isolated containers that follow specific security protocols. Applying Policy-Ba

Last September, Steve Ballmer insisted in an ESPN interview that the Clippers weren't involved in a shady-looking $28 million endorsement deal for his star player, Kawhi Leonard, that involved no actual endorsing. Now, the former Microsoft CEO has been suspended by the NBA for a year, while the league says his team will forfeit five […]

Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.

Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The change to a pay-as-you-go model is part of some sweeping changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, and is designed for people who don't use cloud access enough to warrant a monthly subscription. "Players […]

Microsoft is announcing some major changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, less than a year after opening up cloud gaming to its Xbox Game Pass Premium and Essential tiers. While all Game Pass plans have included unlimited cloud gaming over the past year, from November this will be limited to just 15 hours on Ultimate, […]

Lenovo is announcing a new concept laptop for IFA 2026 that uses solid-state cooling instead of traditional fans, making it incredibly thin and super light. The 14-inch Project AeroBlade concept laptop is less than 10mm thick and weighs under 1.8 pounds / 830g. For reference, recent ThinkPad X1 Carbons are around 14mm at their thickest […]

Lenovo is announcing the IdeaPad Vibe, a productivity laptop aimed at taking on the MacBook Neo with a similar starting price and a wider range of colors. The Vibe comes in 14- and 15-inch sizes, with AMD and Qualcomm chip options due out in October and November, respectively. Intel versions (likely Wildcat Lake) are set […]

Microsoft is changing how it reports its finances to investors by splitting its businesses into two segments and disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time. The changes are meant to reflect the ongoing impact of AI on Microsoft and how the company now operates. The software giant has previously reported […]

For the last few years, PC gamers on the go have had a choice: Buy a gaming laptop, or pick up one of the many Steam Deck-inspired handhelds that are a fraction of the size but a lot less versatile. Acer's latest concept device, Project DualPlay Mini, is an attempt to upend that dichotomy by […]