Microsoft is investigating whether a leak from its early alert system for cybersecurity companies allowed Chinese hackers to exploit flaws in its SharePoint service before they were patched, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.

The current Windows 11 release has a more streamlined user interface and is the most reliable yet, Microsoft says.

Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to support the Pentagon. But ProPublica found that the tech giant has relied on its global workforce for years to support other federal clients,

Last year, the Department of Homeland Security released a scathing report detailing Microsoft’s mistakes during a 2023 hack in which China stole thousands of emails from top government officials. Two years before that, China-linked cyberattackers compromised more than 250,000 Microsoft Exchange servers.

Microsoft’s much-maligned Recall feature, which automatically screenshots everything you do on your Copilot+ PC to create a “photographic memory,” is not making many fans across the app developer community. According to a report from The Verge, ad blocker AdGuard and privacy-minded browser Brave have decided to block Recall and its prying eyes.

I reported yesterday that OpenAI is preparing to release GPT-5 in early August, and now references to a new GPT-5-powered “Smart Mode” have reportedly appeared in Copilot. Alexey Shavanov discovered code changes in Copilot that point toward a new smart option that uses GPT-5 to “think quickly or deeply.

Microsoft contained a major SharePoint security flaw, amid fresh questions about the future of its legacy on-premises software.

Now, Microsoft is testing another virtual assistant. While it's not quite Clippy 2.0, the new Copilot Appearance experiment from Copilot Labs is definitely giving major Clippy vibes.

Investors are desensitized to cyberattacks and have other issues on their mind ahead of Microsoft’s earnings report next week, analysts say.