Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella addressed a gathering of more than 40 Indian‑origin technology CEOs and CTOs in Seattle, praising the city’s expanding tech ecosystem and its deepening partnership with India. The forum, organized by the Indian Consulate under Consul General Prakash Gupta and titled “Ideas4India: Indian American Tech CEOs Forum | Unlocking the Tech Dividend,” followed the India AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi earlier this year. Participants represented firms such as Amazon, Boeing, OpenAI, Anthropic, Intel, Veeam, Helion [...]

Microsoft Teams is adding a dual‑screen‑sharing capability that will let two participants broadcast their desktops or apps simultaneously during a meeting. The feature, slated for rollout to commercial and education tenants later this year, expands on the platform’s existing single‑share model and includes controls for presenters to toggle each feed on or off. Microsoft says the update will improve collaborative workflows such as code reviews, design critiques, and remote training by reducing the need to switch between [...]

Microsoft confirmed on September 17, 2026 that its Copilot AI assistant suffered a service degradation, causing users to receive error messages such as “I’m sorry, I’m having trouble responding to requests right now.” The issue stemmed from problems with a specific API endpoint, prompting the company to launch an investigation and post updates on its status page. By 5:21 PM ET the same day, Microsoft announced that Copilot had returned to full operational readiness. The outage affected anyone relying on Copilot [...]

Microsoft reintroduced the ability to move the Windows 11 taskbar and resize the Start menu after five years of omission. The features were removed when Windows 11 launched because the new OS did not inherit much of the legacy Win32 code that handled taskbar positioning, forcing engineers to rebuild the component from scratch and prioritize functionality. Tali Roth, then head of Windows core user experience, explained that supporting a movable taskbar required extensive reflow work for every [...]

Microsoft has quietly altered Windows 11’s lock screen, making Weather the sole default widget and removing other MSN‑powered cards such as Sports, Money, and Daily Discovery. The change, documented in the August 27 preview update and rolled out in the September 8 Patch Tuesday release, follows user complaints about clutter. Users can still add or remove widgets via Settings > Personalization > Lock screen, or disable widgets entirely. The update reflects Microsoft’s effort to streamline the lock screen after earlier [...]

The article intended to report that web applications are experiencing freezing issues in Microsoft Edge and that the recommended remediation steps are cumbersome. However, the provided content consists solely of a biographical profile of Sean Endicott, a Windows Central news writer, detailing his professional background, areas of coverage, and extracurricular achievements. No information about the Edge freezing problem, its scope, technical cause, or the specific fix is included in the text.

Microsoft Discovery, the company’s new AI‑driven chip‑design platform, enabled a former aerospace engineer to take a RISC‑V core and a small AI accelerator from specification through logical C, high‑level synthesis, RTL and finally physical layout using the open‑source OpenROAD flow and SKY130 process node. The author documented the end‑to‑end workflow on GitHub and demonstrated the tool’s ability to lower the expertise barrier for non‑silicon specialists. The project, presented at DAC 2026, also showcased how AI assistance can streamline [...]