
US government threatens to cancel JEDI
The Force is not strong in this one
Microsoft is in danger of losing a contract to provide $10 billion of cloud computing services to the Pentagon, a deal the government has threatened to scrap altogether after years of legal mess.

Apple fanboy shocked when Jobs’ Mob copies Microsoft
Matyszczyk living with Edge
Apple fanboy and “Technically Incorrect" columnist Chris Matyszczyk must have thought he was onto a winner when he gave into the Microsoft pestering to download and try the new Edge.

Microsoft warns of Chinese attack
Email boxer rebellion
A China-linked cyber espionage group has been remotely plundering email inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software.

Microsoft releases low power code
Wants PowerFx to become standard.
Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that will become the standard for writing logic customisation across Microsoft's own low-code Power Platform.

Microsoft Word gets autocorrect
Vole copies Smart Compose
Software King of the World Microsoft is about to jack an autocorrect function into Word which will pretty much do what Google’s Smart Compose feature does in Gmail and Docs.

Microsoft's next feature update is a bit of a snooze
Only one real new feature
Microsoft announced the next feature release of Windows 10, Windows 10 21H1 and it only has one feature worth looking at.

Microsoft connects cloud to Spaceborne Computer-2
Putting AI in space
Microsoft will connect its cloud computing Azure Space platform to the Spaceborne Computer-2, a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise product promising to "deliver edge computing and [artificial intelligence] capabilities to the International Space Station (ISS)".

Vole and Volkswagen team up
VW gets lebensraum on Microsoft’s cloud
Adolf Hitler’s favourite car company has teamed up with what used to be known as the Evil Empire to streamline efforts to build self-driving cars.

There is nothing wrong with big tech
It just needs guidelines, says Nadella
King of the Volehill, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, has been telling the world+dog that there is nothing wrong with Big Tech - all it needs is clearer laws and rules.

Intel sues Microsoft defector
Claimed he took trade secrets
Chipzilla sued a former Oregon employee last week, alleging he took trade secrets with him when he left for Microsoft and used the information to gain an advantage in subsequent business negotiations with Intel.