Microsoft revamps the Start menu in Windows 11 — scrollable layout, new views, and fewer clicks

Microsoft is rolling out a new Start menu for Windows 11 with a unified, scrollable layout that combines all sections into ...

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Mint

European small businesses rush into AI without basic digital tools, study shows

Oct 8 (Reuters) - Most European small and mid-sized enterprises are prioritizing artificial intelligence systems over basic digital tools across their businesses, losing ground to bigger firms ...
Forbes

Small Business Technology Roundup: Microsoft’s CoPilot App Could Leave Users With Few Options, Google’s AI Agent Can Pay Your Bills

Small Business Technology News #1 – Microsoft will force install the Copilot AI app for some users. Starting October 2025, Microsoft will automatically install the Copilot AI app on Windows devices ...
The Verge

Satya Nadella is haunted at the prospect of Microsoft not surviving the AI era

Worries about missing the AI market might explain the culture of fear some Microsoft employees are experiencing. Worries about missing the AI market might explain the culture of fear some Microsoft ...
Seattle Times

Ex-Microsoft exec Nathan Myhrvold’s letter in Epstein ‘birthday book,’ records show

Microsoft’s former Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold was listed as a “friend” in documents copied from a 2003 birthday book made for Jeffrey Epstein, a tome that also includes a letter praising ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Open-Sources the BASIC Software That Powered Early PCs

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

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 ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
The Verge

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...