An internal memo from XBOX CEO Asha Sharma revealed today that Microsoft will be laying off 4,800 employees today—with more expected cuts.

Microsoft is axing 4,800 employees, most of them from its Xbox division, as it and the rest of the tech industry seek to adapt to the AI era. The cuts come as the software giant has heavily invested in artificial intelligence after years of pouring cash into gaming.

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Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in our latest recap. Windows 11 is five years old, Windows 10 gets more support, Xbox prices go up, and more.

Live from San Francisco, we compiled all the biggest news from Microsoft's annual developer conference. This is how Microsoft sees the future of AI computing. Microsoft Build is officially over, but there's still a lot to unpack. If there's one single ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The project is based on the open-source uutils project, a ...

It apparently fell short in an attempt to lease cloud capacity from a peer.