In an interview with the Financial Times (via 9to5Mac), Microsoft Gaming head Phil Spencer says the company is heavily working in a world where Apple allows third-party app stores as it wants to bring Microsoft Xbox app store to the iPhone starting next year. This could be possible due to the Digital Markets Act, legislation…
During the “reinventing productivity with AI” event on Thursday, Microsoft announced a new AI-powered Copilot for its Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft 365 Copilot will be integrated directly into all of the company’s productivity apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more. Copilot will look and behave the same way across every app. Microsoft…
This is a big week for generative AI, as OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT’s next big upgrade, GPT-4. The new AI software supports multimodal input, which means the chatbot can do more than just read text. It can now understand images, which will open the door to additional exciting uses for the bot. However, ChatGPT with GPT-4…
If you’ve ever wanted to appear like you’re attending a meeting, Microsoft Teams is about to help you out. According to the Microsoft 365 roadmap, the company plans to roll out 3D avatars to Microsoft Teams in May of this year. What’s interesting about the avatars in Teams is that users will be able to…
Microsoft spent a ton of money to make ChatGPT possible. As reported by Bloomberg, when Microsoft invested $1 billion into OpenAI, part of that money was spent on building a supercomputer to power what we now know as ChatGPT. According to the report, the company connected tens of thousands of Nvidia’s A100 graphics cards in…
We’ve been using copy-and-paste shortcuts to move text between applications for years. And products like Microsoft’s Word and other 365 productivity apps have annoyed us for just as long when copying and pasting plain text without formatting. The good news is that Microsoft is finally bringing the plain text paste shortcut you’ve been dying to…
If it hurts your eyes to watch old, lower-resolution videos on the web, Microsoft is looking to fix that. In a blog post, the company announced a new feature called video super resolution for Edge, its web browser. The feature, which is being tested with Edge Canary, “uses machine learning to enhance the quality of…
Google isn’t even going to get a chance to launch Bard before Microsoft moves on to bringing ChatGPT to more of its apps and services. In a blog post, Microsoft announced that it will be hosting an event on March 16. According to the announcement, the event will focus on how the company is “reinventing…
If you’re one of the people who use a PC and an iPhone and have always wanted to use iMessage on your Windows machine, today is a small step in that direction. In a blog post, Microsoft announced that it is previewing iMessage running on Windows through the company’s Phone Link app, which allows both…
Microsoft has admitted that it has erroneously been offering Windows 11 updates on ineligible devices. The software and devices maker’s newest OS has a long way to go to catch up with Windows 10, so it is keeping the pressure on with promotions, ads, and upgrade offers. However, in its efforts to boost Windows 11…
