After a 30-year run, Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, leaving fans of this simple word processor upset. Fortunately, there are solid alternatives.

Microsoft has announced a new small language model called Fara-7B, which can be used to perform agentic tasks directly on the user’s device. Termed as a Computer Use Agent (CUA) model, Fara-7B uses ...

Word will save new documents to the cloud by default. AutoSave will also be enabled by default. You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft has long been pushing ...

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.

Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy Your email has been sent Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the ...

Nadella took to X, formerly Twitter, saying Microsoft's "breakthrough work on an analog optical computer points to new ways to solve complex real-world problems with much greater efficiency. He added ...

Microsoft has teamed up with Barclays on a novel approach to tackling artificial intelligence (AI) and optimisation problems based on a scalable analogue optical computer (AOC) architecture, designed ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of ...

Microsoft Word users with new laptops can consider Microsoft 365, a paid subscription service offering access to various Microsoft applications and cloud storage. Free alternatives like Google Docs, ...

Microsoft said it will cease using China-based computer engineering teams for work on Pentagon cloud systems, after an investigation this week led to national security concerns at the highest levels ...

BRUSSELS, July 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab will likely sign the European Union's code of practice to help companies comply with the bloc's landmark artificial intelligence rules, ...