The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Microsoft Copilot is rolling out GPT 5.2 as "Smart Plus" mode

Microsoft is rolling out GPT 5.2 to Copilot on the web, Windows, and mobile as a free upgrade, and it'll coexist with the GPT ...
KTAR

Arizona education nonprofit chosen as 2026 Microsoft TechSpark fellow

Arizona nonprofit Fresh Start Foundation was selected as a Microsoft TechSpark fellow for 2026, a program that helps women re ...

Microsoft helps WA students try AI, will give schools new tools

Microsoft's one-hour lesson in Bellevue aimed to introduce kids to fast-evolving AI and helping them use it responsibly.

I moved to the US from India. Here's how I landed a job at Microsoft after first misunderstanding the Big Tech hiring process.

Rishab Jolly moved to the US to get his MBA after starting his engineering career in India. He was hired at Microsoft in 2017 as a product manager.
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft bounty program now includes any flaw impacting its services

Microsoft now pays security researchers for finding critical vulnerabilities in any of its online services, regardless of whether the code was written by Microsoft or a third party. This policy shift ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Microsoft Advertising Ad Grant Program To Be Shut Down

Microsoft will be shutting down its Microsoft Advertising Ads for Social Impact ad grant program. It will officially be discontinued in December 2025. The final grants will be awarded on November 30, ...
Search Engine Land

Microsoft clarifies nonprofit ad grant program status

Microsoft’s Ads for Social Impact program offers nonprofits ad credits across Bing, MSN, Outlook, and more – but entry is waitlisted. Microsoft Ads Liaison Navah Hopkins confirmed that the company’s ...
The Verge

Microsoft’s Windows AI Lab is a new way to test experimental features

Microsoft Paint is the first app to get new experimental AI features. Microsoft Paint is the first app to get new experimental AI features. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
Microsoft

Microsoft Bounty Program year in review: $17 million in rewards

In close collaboration with the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), these security researchers have helped identify and resolve more than a thousand potential vulnerabilities, strengthening ...