Skype Stops Selling Skype Credit In Favor of Monthly Subscriptions

Skype users can no longer purchase Skype Credit to make calls to mobiles and landlines with affordable rates. Skype is now pushing these users towards monthly subscriptions.
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2024 Winds Down with a Fresh Look at the Microsoft Client Stack (Premium)

Microsoft’s strategy for moving customers to new versions of its client software products involves two distinctly different–one might say, incompatible–tactics. The first is the traditional customer-focused meeting of needs that dates back to the com… Continue reading 2024 Winds Down with a Fresh Look at the Microsoft Client Stack (Premium)

Microsoft Says it is Not Training Copilot AI on Your Microsoft 365 Data

This week, Microsoft refuted reports claiming that it is training its Copilot AI on data customers store in Microsoft 365.
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Microsoft Edge Has a New Trick to Get Data From Chrome Users on Windows

Microsoft is once again trying to get Chrome users to share their browser data with its Edge browser on Windows.
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Microsoft Earnings Analysis: FY25 Q1 (Premium)

This admittedly unusual look at Microsoft’s earnings is skewed by my focus on the consumer side of the software giant, so I’m mostly ignoring the business segments that are driving its growth. That’s fine, but I do have to peek under the AI kimono to s… Continue reading Microsoft Earnings Analysis: FY25 Q1 (Premium)

Microsoft Photos on Windows 10 is Getting iCloud Photos Integration and More

Windows 10 Insiders can test a new version of the Microsoft Photos app that adds the iCloud Photos integration Windows 11 users have been enjoying for two years.
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Microsoft Announces OneDrive & AI Digital Event on October 8

Microsoft will be holding a OneDrive digital event on October 8 with an “AI Innovations for a new era of work and home” theme.
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I Will Not Pay for AI (Premium)

Close your eyes and imagine it’s the 1990s. Microsoft has successfully transitioned its growing family of productivity applications–Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so on–into a bundle it calls a suite that it sells for less than the cost of buying each … Continue reading I Will Not Pay for AI (Premium)

Microsoft is Adding Two New AI Features to Clipchamp

Microsoft will update its terrific Clipchamp video editor with support for AI-based background and noise removal capabilities.
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Microsoft Bing Outage is Impacting Copilot, DuckDuckGo, And Other Services

Microsoft’s Bing search engine is currently experiencing an outage that’s also affecting services relying on the Bing API such as DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT.
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