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One of the biggest things tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) has brought out in some time is the Xbox Game Pass. A kind of cloud-based gaming service that offers access to a range of titles for a monthly fee, Xbox Game Pass has met with almost as much controversy as praise. A recent report noted that this controversy is even happening …

Software engineer Pratik Pandey was driven to death by the ‘unbearable stress’ of working for Microsoft, his grieving mom has told the Daily Mail. The 35-year-old was toiling until 3am to hit targets and impress bosses ahead of a crucial performance review, according to his shattered family. He had no obvious medical problems, but his parents became so worried they …

If there’s one thing that I find tiring about Satya Nadella‘s Microsoft, it’s how poorly they treat their consumer businesses. I wrote previously about how Surface, Xbox, and Windows are all suffering from underfunding and cut corners, as Microsoft sinks billions into chasing artificial intelligence fads to hype up its share price. Many of Microsoft’s apps and services have become …

In 2025, the US workforce experienced significant disruptions, driven by federal layoffs, corporate restructuring, cost-cutting measures, economic pressures, and financial distress across various sectors. Federal agencies drove over half of all layoffs this quarter, with over 150,000 job cuts reported in February and March. The list of companies laying off companies is growing following two years of significant job cuts …

Microsoft says Azure cloud service disrupted by fiber cuts in Red Sea  Reuters Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast  NBC News Internet disruptions in Middle East and South Asia after Red Sea cable cuts  Al Jazeera Microsoft Says Azure Service Affected by Damaged Red Sea Cables  Bloomberg.com Microsoft cloud services disrupted by Red Sea cable …

If you’ve been around Windows for a while, you’ve probably noticed that Microsoft has a habit of quietly killing off apps. Just like those Windows features you probably never used but are gone for good, these apps are now history, whether you realized it or not. Interestingly, they don’t even spare ones that once felt like staples of the operating …

Image credits: Getty Images Passion and overworking are two different concepts and it’s time we stop evaluating them proportionally. Case in point, a young Microsoft engineer who died at work. Cause of death? Overworking.Pratik Pandey, 35, of Menlo Park, California, badged into Microsoft’s Mountain View office at 7:50 pm on August 19. Around 2 am, he was found face-down in …

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would make the source code for Microsoft BASIC for the 6502 Version 1.1 publicly available and open-source. The code …

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through custom adaptations. The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch …

Back in the 1980s, there was a term in Japanese culture: “karoshi.” Essentially, it meant “death by overwork,” and referred to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events that were commonly connected to stress from work. There were those who thought karoshi had spread throughout the world, and tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) may have a case of karoshi on its own staff. The …