This week's Microsoft news recap brings you stories about the company adding more ads to Windows 11 and Edge, leaking Server builds, Patch Tuesday updates, Windows 11 preview builds, and more.
Microsoft ships Windows 11 with lots of promotions via notifications and ads. This is a step-by-step guide to blocking ads in Windows 11.
Google and Microsoft both reported very good earnings, driving both stock prices up after hours. I like to dive into the ad revenue side, and it looks like Google Ad revenue was up 13% from last year and Microsoft Advertising revenue was up 12% from last year.And that is good because both companies saw ad revenues increase the previous quarter and the quarter before that.Google reported total ad sales of $61.66 billion — up from $54.55 billion a year ago.GOOG EarningsThe Google earnings release...
The latest Windows 11 preview build in the Beta Channel delivers a rather odd change to the Start menu. For some reason, the "Sign out" button is hidden behind a Microsoft 365 ad and other banners.
YouTube users who use ad blockers to avoid advertising on the platform will now see alerts or experience buffering issues.
Microsoft is now bringing Copilot's translation to Edge for Android. This feature has been around in the mobile app version for a while.
The latest version of the Microsoft Edge web browser, 124, is now available in the Stable Channel. It includes email notifications for extension requests for its management service and more.
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Microsoft's 'recommendations' have arrived in your Start menu with the latest patch.
“Civil War” held onto its spot atop the box office on a slow weekend, taking in $11.1 million in its second week in North American theaters, according to industry estimates released Sunday. Writer/director Alex Garland’s drama about a sectarian conflict in the United States beat out the horror film “Abigail,” which opened with $10.2 million, […]
Microsoft has announced the Edge 2024 web platform top developer needs dashboard to track the progress across different browsers as Microsoft and other companies resolve web developer "pain points."
Movie marketing always treads a fine line between actually giving you an indicator of what you’ll see in the final film and more about evoking a specific vibe—from made-for-trailer shots to hypothetical what ifs, it’s sometimes not always clear what part of it will actually be seen on screen when you’re in a movie theater. But that fine line gets much, much messier when you throw generative AI into the mix. A24 learned that the hard way last night when it released a series of promotional images...