Meta Platforms has hired C.J. Mahoney, a legal executive at Microsoft, to be its new chief legal officer. Mahoney, who also served as deputy U.S. trade representative under President Trump's first ...

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.

Microsoft is providing early access to C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot via the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. These C++ tools allow GitHub Copilot to go beyond file searches and unlock ...

Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals writer for Lifehacker. She has a Master’s degree in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been writing professionally since 2018, creating ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...

Microsoft published guidance explaining how C++ developers can upgrade their existing projects to Visual Studio 2026. The company said the process is straightforward and designed to minimize ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new version of the Snipping Tool in Windows 11, which might be worth paying attention to. The big news with this update is that Microsoft is adding a visual search feature ...

Microsoft released the Microsoft Agent Framework (public preview), an open-source SDK and runtime that unifies core ideas from AutoGen (agent runtime and multi-agent patterns) with Semantic Kernel ...

Microsoft says the August 2025 security updates are triggering unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and app installation issues for non-admin users across all supported Windows versions. This ...