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Windows 11 is adding shared audio, letting your PC stream sound to two Bluetooth devices at once without any splitter or workaround. The feature runs on Bluetooth LE Audio and is currently in preview on select Copilot+ PCs,
Three of the biggest US tech companies reported record profits and record infrastructure spending on Wednesday, fueling speculation about a possible AI market bubble.
Microsoft has reported an 18% increase in quarterly sales, reaching $77.7 billion, surpassing Wall Street expectations
Microsoft's AI infrastructure spending to meet growing cloud services demand is outpacing Wall Street expectations, deepening investor fears about the costs of sustaining the boom.
On Wednesday, the company reported spending a larger-than-expected $34.9 billion on new projects in the three months through Sept. 30 as it races to build data centers that provide computing power to fuel the A.I. boom, a 74 percent increase from a year earlier.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella faced pushback even from the company’s cofounder and original CEO Bill Gates, he recalled during an interview on tech-focused YouTube channel TPBN. “Remember this was a nonprofit, and I think Bill [Gates] even said, ‘Yeah, you’re going to burn this billion dollars,'” Nadella said.
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Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, told investors that the company plans to double its data center footprint over the next two years.
Microsoft services including Outlook, Minecraft and Xbox Cloud Gaming experienced widespread outages Tuesday, disrupting access for millions of users worldwide. The company said it was investigating the cause of the outage, which began early in the day and affected sign-ins and online gameplay across multiple platforms.