Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools
Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools Skip to content Meta and Microsoft have commenced a significant reduction in employee utilization of Anthropic’s Claude AI as they pivot towards their own proprietary coding instruments, as reported on October 5 by The Information. This strategic alteration prioritizes internal expenditure and workforce processes, rather […]
Microsoft tried to ban “Microslop”, and six months later it has given up
Microsoft quietly drops its ban on Microslop as it scales back Windows 11 AI bloat In March, Windows Latest was the first to notice that Microsoft’s official Copilot Discord server was blocking messages containing “Microslop.” Anyone who tried to post it got a moderation warning, and people quickly started testing variations like “Microsl0p” to slip […]
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history’
New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping was tantamount to theft, and that AI products pose a major threat to publications. Per the lawsuit, a top Microsoft executive privately described the companies’ AI training practices as “theft,” […]
Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
Microsoft 365 (click-to-run Office) famously does not work on stock Wine. This flake is a best-effort attempt to run it through umu-launcher with GE-Proton (the Wine build that Valve/GloriousEggroll ship for games) instead, with the Bottles project’s ProtoSoda Wine core available as a second runner. It packages nothing from Microsoft: the Office Deployment Tool and […]
Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?
The first Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows didn’t have a number after its name because it was the first one, and nobody knew that there were going to be any sequels.¹ It may not have had a big number 1 on the box, but initial runs did have a bright red sticker that said, “Now […]
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
This project is a fully working native Windows x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, whose historical codename was Opus. It builds the original Word source and resources together with modern replacements for the 16-bit assembly, segmented-memory, and Win16 platform boundaries. The result is the original Word application and user experience running as a […]
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
The chat client that brought Comic Sans to the world is now on GitHub Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of Microsoft Comic Chat, the chat client that automatically turned conversations within Internet Relay Chat (IRC) into comic panels featuring illustrated characters, speech bubbles, and expressions, and helped introduce the world to a […]
Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software
id Software are without a doubt one of the most important game developers in the first person genre history. The technology empowering their games, idTech powers a shocking number of games and even game engines ( we ranked it 4th in our Most Important Game Engines of all Time ranking). This era might be coming […]
Microsoft Needs Windows Lite
philipbohun.com/blog blog dark mode Microsoft Needs Windows Lite 2026-06-29 Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They’re switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux. Without Builders, you don’t have software, and without software, you don’t have […]
Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
6 June 2026 Jason Koebler, and Emanuel Maiberg, writing for 404 Media: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned. “Three phases from addictive app to agentic platform,” the documentation. […]