Too slow for Windows 11

A recent executive brief from data storage industry analyst firm Trendfocus reports that OEMs have disclosed that Microsoft is pushing them to drop HDDs as the primary storage device in pre-built Windows 11 PCs.

Dark rumours of toxic culture 

HoloLens creator Alex Kipman is leaving Microsoft, after he was the subject of a Business Insider report detailing a continuing "toxic business culture" at Microsoft.

A good four-year delay

Microsoft has finally updated its roadmap for Exchange Server and the next version will be coming in 2025, a good four years later than planned.

Newer 11th-gen Intel CPU

Microsoft is about to update its compact Surface Laptop Go with a newer 11th-gen Intel CPU (an i5-1135G7), which replaces the 10th-gen model found in the original 2020 laptop.

No one used them

Software King of the World Microsoft has killed off some of the functions in its Excel spreadsheet because no one was using them.

Still not quite ready for market

The Dark Satanic Rumour Mill has been claiming that Microsoft has been working on a streaming stick for Xbox Cloud Gaming using an affordable dongle for a while, but it turns out that the stories were true.

In the office

Software King of the World Microsoft apparently has a problem with its managers using VR to watch soft porn in the office.

 Microsoft tracking hole in the system

While many look to DuckDuckGo to protect them from monitoring from big tech, it looks like the search engine is not that private due to deals done with Microsoft.

Not very good at its job

People interested in such things have discovered that Microsoft’s hardware monitoring resource is giving information which is about as accurate as a Ukraine war report on Russian television.

More integration than you can poke a stick at 

Microsoft has updated the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) to Android 12.1 and shipped improvements to Android integration with Windows, networking, the camera in apps, and the Settings app.