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Microsoft News Roundup: Nightmare week of price hikes, rebrands, and remembering how Bill Gates lost $400 billion

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Par : [email protected] (Sean Endicott)
Negative headlines surrounded Microsoft this past week as the company rebranded its most iconic apps, raised the price of Microsoft 365, and was attacked by Salesforce.

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Microsoft claps back at Salesforce — claims "100,000 organizations" had used Copilot Studio to create AI agents by October 2024

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
Microsoft has clapped back at Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's comments downplaying its AI efforts. The company indicated over 100,000 organizations had used Copilot Studio to create agents by October 2024.

Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna (left) and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (right)

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Microsoft unveils MatterGen — an AI for developing new materials with an approximate 80% success rate, surpassing traditional screening methods

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
Microsoft Researchers recently unveiled MatterGen — a sophisticated AI system capable of developing high-quality materials.

MatterGen researchers at Microsoft experiment with compound TaCr2O6.

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Your Microsoft 365 subscription cost is going up for the first time in 12 years — but don't worry, it now includes a "monthly allotment" of Copilot

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Par : [email protected] (Zac Bowden)
Microsoft has announced that it is increasing the price of its Microsoft 365 Personal and Home subscriptions for the first time in 12 years, and is also adding Copilot.

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"Sorry, Bill": Android co-founder says Bill Gates is responsible for "the greatest mistake of all time," costing Microsoft $400 billion

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
Bill Gates revealed his greatest mistake of all time made Microsoft miss its opportunity with Android, partly due to mismanagement and antitrust-related issues. However, Android co-founder Rich Miner says Bill Gates is more responsible than he's letting on.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at an event for the Alliance for Global Good Gender Equity and Equality in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.

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Microsoft reportedly acquired the most NVIDIA GPUs compared to its rivals, including Google and Meta, for its AI projects — translating to 485,000 chips and $31 billion in expenditure

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
A new report by Omdia details that Microsoft bought the most NVIDIA AI chips compared to its competitors, translating to 485,000 NVIDIA Hopper chips and almost twice as many as Meta.

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Controversial artist ironically seeks millions of dollars in compensation for AI-generated collections as OpenAI sidesteps bankruptcy with $6.6 billion in funding from Microsoft and NVIDIA

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Par : [email protected] (Sean Endicott)
As OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in investment from Microsoft and NVIDIA, an AI artist argued that people are stealing from him by using AI. We also saw a major update to Windows 11 roll out and Microsoft ship the latest version of Office.

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Microsoft's new Copilot can watch what you do on the web, and chat with you in real time while you do it

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Par : [email protected] (Zac Bowden)
Microsoft has unveiled a wild new feature coming to the new Copilot called Copilot Vision that enables the ability for it to browse the web alongside you to help you make decisions or to be there as a friend simply to chat with as you read the news or shop for items.

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Bill Gates says he'd start Microsoft again as an AI-centric firm to rival OpenAI and Google: "Today, somebody could raise billions of dollars for a new AI company [that’s just] a few sketch ideas"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
In a recent interview, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates indicated that he'd start Microsoft again as an AI-centric firm if he got another crack at the corporate world.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivers a keynote speech on the closing day of the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

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Apple and Microsoft battle for the #1 market cap crown as NVIDIA suffers the biggest single day drop in HISTORY

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Par : [email protected] (Jez Corden)
It's not a hot week for NVIDIA bag holders, as one of the world's biggest tech companies endures the largest single day stock drop in history, wiping $270 billion off its value.

NVIDIA Share Price implosion Sept 2024

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Incase will unearth Microsoft-branded accessories from the Microsoft Graveyard in Q4 2024: "The products will be the same, but instead of saying Microsoft they’ll say Incase, designed by Microsoft"

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Incase had initially indicated that the Incase Designed by Microsoft accessories would ship in Q2 of 2024 but has since pushed the launch to Q4

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