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£270 million ValueLicensing claim against Microsoft advances after the Court of Appeal refused permission to take the second-hand license dispute to the Supreme Court. A 2013 internal deck labeled a Known Adverse Document remains undisclosed.

RTX Spark laptops starting at $2,399 are now available with NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics. • Up to 128GB unified memory • Up to 1 petaflop of AI compute • Systems from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI

After a 22-year run as an independent company, Inrix is selling substantially all of its assets to Allstate’s Arity. The former Microsoft spinout had explored an IPO multiple times.

Michelangelus, a typeface drawn from Michelangelo's Vatican manuscripts and Pietà inscriptions, joins Microsoft 365 with over 500 glyphs across regular, italic, bold, and bold italic styles.

Microsoft announced a whitepaper with NVIDIA that gives enterprises a shared taxonomy, evaluations, and controls for open-weight AI model risks.

Microsoft Signal magazine Issue 6 examines AI race-day decisions at the F1 Miami Grand Prix and early wildfire detection on California's front lines.

Project Odeon, a test Settings app, has appeared in the Microsoft Store for Windows 11 build 26100 and newer. The modular build could allow Store-based updates and pull more Control Panel functions into one place.

Apple and Nvidia each pledged $25 million toward President Trump’s White House ballroom, making them two of the largest donors on an internal list obtained by The Washington Post, 9to5Mac reports. Other tech pledges on the list include $22 million from Google and $10 million each from Microsoft and Palantir.

Theo Browne says a ~$24,000 Claude Opus 5.5 run ported Microsoft’s Go-based TypeScript 7 compiler to Rust, and claims the port runs about twice as fast as tsc 7 and 12.5 times as fast as v6 while passing nearly all conformance tests, The Register reports.

Three Seattle-area startups made Time's Best Inventions list this year. OneCourt, Yoodli and Tin Can joined Amazon and SpaceX, while Microsoft was left off.

Microsoft Edge announced a seamless-updates prototype that applies new versions in the background while open tabs and work continue without a restart. Restart to update on idle is available now for idle devices, and Security Update Alerts are live in the Edge management service for organizations.

Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave a combined $92 million for Trump’s White House ballroom, according to a Washington Post donor list cited by The Verge. Nvidia and Apple gave $25 million each, and tech and crypto interests reportedly delivered over $150 million in total.

Microsoft says RTX Spark laptops get a new Get Started setup that installs an AI agent in about two clicks, with agents installed and updated through the Windows Store. Hermes, Perplexity, and OpenClaw are the first three supported agents at launch, and Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra can ship with up to 128GB of unified memory.

Microsoft fixed the black screen, desktop loading, and Explorer crash issue that followed Windows 11 updates since August. The fix shipped in the October 13 cumulative updates and applies mainly to Azure Virtual Desktop hosts running FSLogix.

Free fiber subscribers report 40-140 Mb/s on 8 Gbit/s FTTH lines, with high latency to Google and Microsoft servers. Issues center on the backbone and affect Île-de-France plus scattered reports elsewhere.

Python 3.15 selects the native Arm64 runtime by default on Windows on Arm devices, Microsoft says, with NumPy, pandas, Django and more than 2,500 Anaconda packages available natively.

Microsoft's new bias-correction tool improved the accuracy of ECMWF's leading physics-based weather model for 98 percent of precipitation targets and 92 percent of temperature targets two to six weeks ahead, and doubled the accuracy of ECMWF's new AI forecasting system in the study. Microsoft says it runs on CPUs alone, The Verge reports.

Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday update fixes a Windows 11 bug that caused mouse stuttering during gameplay. The one-line note in KB5127648 covers the issue without naming affected titles or root cause.

Tiny11 Builder's new WinUI 3 desktop app creates debloated Windows 11 ISOs from 22H2 media onward without PowerShell. Three modes range from keeping Defender and updates to irreversible Core cuts that drop recovery tools and Microsoft support.

Microsoft released KB5127648 and KB5127646 to fix Always On VPN failures on Windows 11 24H2 and later. The updates resolve stuck connections and port-in-use errors that followed September security patches when automatic protocol selection was enabled.

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit disrupted a Chinese-language phishing ecosystem linking kit operators tracked as Storm-2990 with the Storm-3119 illicit marketplace. The action targeted tools and infrastructure sold for large-scale campaigns.

Microsoft patched CVE-2026-100220 on Oct 13, a Critical remote code execution flaw in the Windows Media Video Decoder (CVSS 3.1: 8.8). A heap-based buffer overflow is triggered when a user opens a crafted media file. It is not exploited or publicly disclosed. Fixes include KB5127648, KB5126653 and KB5126657.

Microsoft confirmed Remote Desktop connections fail with error 0xC000000D after the KB5124010 update or later on Windows 11 24H2 and newer when Administrator protection is enabled. The issue hits enterprise devices using the feature by default in security baselines, with a policy workaround available until a fix ships.

Dockhand before version 1.0.50 has a privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2026-110112, that lets admins from another tenant of a shared OIDC provider such as Microsoft Entra ID gain admin access, because the iss, aud, nonce and exp claims are not validated. VulnCheck, the CNA, rates it 8.1 under CVSS 3.1 and 9.2 under CVSS 4.0.

Microsoft's tenth Patch Tuesday release of 2026 arrives as KB5127648 and KB5126653 for Windows 11 23H2 through 26H2. The updates patch hundreds of vulnerabilities while adding Emoji 17.0 support, File Explorer preview and thumbnail fixes, a Tips widget, and Bluetooth stability improvements.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Retrieval API for SharePoint Embedded now lets developers retrieve permission-trimmed passages from enterprise content for custom agents without building a vector database or indexing pipeline. The SharePoint Embedded MCP server also entered public preview for natural-language app provisioning.

2,899 euros gets the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark N1X on pre-order at Fnac, shipping from October 31.

Microsoft traced the Exchange Admin Center outage to a configuration change. Rollback restored access.

Norway fined Microsoft subsidiary Xandr $9.6 million for allegedly misusing Grindr user data. The company has three weeks to appeal the penalty.

Microsoft's in-house Azure Maia chips will become the main platform for its own AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry, DIGITIMES reports.

Microsoft reportedly patched the "Learn More" shortcut that let users skip the Windows 11 online account requirement during setup. The server-side change forces users to seek more involved workarounds.

96 accelerators per rack in Microsoft's third-generation Maia 300, paired with HBM4 and mostly liquid-cooled infrastructure. The design supports superpods of up to 12,288 accelerators for cloud-scale agentic inference.

Microsoft's third-gen Maia 300 AI chip targets production rollout in 2027 as the primary inference system for its cloud services.

Microsoft plans to shift the bulk of its AI inference workload onto its own Maia chips. The move is expected to cut reliance on Nvidia GPUs and lift operating margins.

Microsoft's Maia 300 accelerator delivers 40% more inference tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. It also reaches up to 7x the rack-scale token throughput of Maia 200.

Microsoft is adding Copilot support to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint while removing the ability to generate Outlook themes with the same tool.

Microsoft says Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions lose security updates in 30 days.

Microsoft will renew Windows Update certificates in spring 2027, cutting off updates and security patches for any PC that misses the change.

Microsoft president Brad Smith said AI faces less oversight than a carton of milk despite its potential to hack governments and corporations.

Microsoft is pushing for AI systems that organizations can monitor in real time and shut down in an emergency rather than opaque black boxes. The call targets enterprise deployments where models connect to business data and tools.

Microsoft's Decision-1 opens with Qwen3.5-9B from a Chinese lab. The next iteration will switch to Redmond's own model.

Up to 4TB of OneDrive storage is being cut from Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The change reverses earlier storage increases for affected plans.

Microsoft is building AI agents into Windows 11 instead of advancing to a new major version. The company laid out the shift at its Surface event this week, treating the current OS as the foundation for an agentic system.

GitHub is roughly 60% through its migration to Azure, working through capacity problems and outages as the platform slots into Microsoft's AI agent strategy.

Microsoft is reportedly barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency after the government accused it of abusing immigration rules, a claim the company disputes.

Up to five additional users on Microsoft 365 Family plans will share Copilot and AI features alongside Office apps and OneDrive storage. The change also applies to Premium subscribers.

Indian tech giants are reportedly shrugging off revisions to the US skilled visa program. Microsoft has denied the fraud and abuse allegations that prompted the changes.

US government accused Microsoft of replacing American workers with foreign indentured servants, then awarded Satya Nadella a medal.

Microsoft advises organizations to begin testing certificate ecosystems now ahead of post-quantum authentication. Its PQC TLS Pilot Program is intended to support that preparation.

Microsoft has started testing a redesigned Windows Search built on WinUI 3. "This new Windows Search experience is built for speed," says corporate vice president Anshul Rawat.

Nscale doubled its Bellevue engineering hub lease to 46,000 square feet before the space opens in 2027. The expansion follows a $2B funding round and targets a hiring push led by former Microsoft AI executive Nidhi Chappell.

The US suspended its visa program for tech firms including Microsoft. The move affects hiring at multiple large employers without an announced timeline for resumption.

Microsoft's new magnetic USB-C charger for the Surface Laptop Ultra is drawing company excitement but little reviewer enthusiasm. The design reportedly adds convenience without addressing core charging limitations.

Microsoft replaced laid-off US workers with H-1B hires at a 1.5-to-1 ratio, the Trump administration said in suspending the company from its green card sponsorship program.