TIME honors the architects of AI as Person of the Year — but Microsoft’s absence is a surprising embarrassment.

Catch up with this week's Microsoft news stories in our Microsoft Weekly news recap. Patch Tuesday updates, a promise of gaming improvements for Windows 11, new drivers for 25H2 and more.

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, ...

Microsoft is reshaping how Windows 11 users personalize their PCs by adding a dedicated Themes department to the Microsoft ...

After a 30-year run, Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, leaving fans of this simple word processor upset. Fortunately, there ...

The developers of Notepad++ recently discovered an actively exploited vulnerability that enabled hackers to hijack the popular editor's automatic updater. Version 8.8.9 addresses the issue, but ...

A developer who goes by "Zoicware" has joined that resistance. He recently updated his tool for ripping AI features out of Windows 11. Called RemoveWindowsAI, the ...

Microsoft has released the KB5071546 extended security update to resolve 57 security vulnerabilities, including three ...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5072033 and KB5071417 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security ...

To me, it seems like Notepad's spellcheck is more word-focused instead of trying to identify the context and figure out which ...