As the first month of 2025 winds to a close, investors and consumers alike are likely wondering what the defining tech trends of the year will be. Microsoft (MSFT) just provided a key update addressing precisely that.

Microsoft has already scheduled a “major” Surface for Business event next week. There, we’re anticipating variants of the current Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 CoPilot Plus PCs that have Intel’s Lunar Lake chips inside and are aimed at business customers.

Microsoft is gearing up to ship two new versions of the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro that have smaller displays, designed to be lighter and more portable for people looking for a more travel-friendly PC. Both devices will be premium products, and feature display sizes roughly between 11- and 12-inches, my sources say.

A new threat called Sneaky 2FA targets Microsoft 365 account users and is invisible to many security protections—what you need to know.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States.

Microsoft Word no longer has the Thesaurus feature, and instead the Redmond-based tech giant suggests users should turn to AI for help.

Microsoft has a new strategy to keep users on its Edge browser and prevent them from switching to Google Chrome. According to Windows Latest, when users search for "Google Chrome" on Bing while logged out of their Microsoft account, they are now presented with several obstacles.

The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”

Microsoft is planning an unspecified number of cuts. Microsoft is planning job cuts soon, and the company is taking a harder look at underperforming employees as part of the reductions, according to two people familiar with the plans. A Microsoft ...

Chris Young, a tech industry veteran who joined Microsoft to lead its business development initiatives in 2020, turned in his resignation today, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing this afternoon.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Microsoft aims to provide 1 million people in South Africa with artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security training opportunities by 2026, Lillian Barnard, President for Microsoft Africa, said on Thursday.