Copilot in 2025: a broken text-adventure experience dubbed ‘PromptQuest’
TL;DR A journalist likens day-to-day work with Microsoft Copilot to old text-adventure games, arguing that unreliable outputs and changing behaviours…
Porting Windows 2 to the Apricot PC/Xi: bringing Word and Excel aboard
TL;DR A hobbyist reverse-engineered and ported Microsoft Windows 2 to the non‑IBM Apricot PC/Xi, overcoming driver and video-format hurdles. The…
PromptQuest: the frustrating text-adventure experience of using modern chatbots
TL;DR An opinion piece compares the trial-and-error of working with contemporary chatbots to playing old text-adventure games. The author describes…
Microsoft says Windows 11 will not be rewritten in Rust using AI
TL;DR Microsoft denied plans to rewrite Windows 11 in Rust after a senior engineer’s LinkedIn post suggested replacing C and…
Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together — developer complaint
TL;DR A developer reports that pressing Tab does not accept the expected autocomplete suggestion and instead offers an unrelated completion.…
Microsoft unveils Agent Framework — open-source toolkit for AI agents and workflows
TL;DR Microsoft published the Agent Framework, an open-source SDK for building LLM-powered agents and graph-based multi-agent workflows for .NET and…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday December 2025: 56 Fixes Including One Zero‑Day
TL;DR Microsoft released December Patch Tuesday updates addressing 56 security flaws, including a zero‑day privilege escalation and two publicly disclosed…
Microsoft study finds Copilot chats embedding into daily user routines
TL;DR Microsoft analyzed 37.5 million de-identified Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 and identified clear patterns by device, time…
Microsoft faces UK tribunal over alleged multibillion‑pound cloud overcharges
TL;DR A collective claim against Microsoft is before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleging the company overcharged organisations that run…