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1. Microsoft reportedly offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as an attempt to trim costs

   Engadget · 26 Oct 2026, 22:40 IST · Unconfirmed

   Microsoft reportedly offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as an attempt to trim costs

2. Microsoft Offers Mass Buyouts For Roughly a Quarter of Its Workforce

   Slashdot · 26 Oct 2026, 21:30 IST

   An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Seattle Times: Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or roughly a quarter of its workforce, as the company tries to control its head count while avoiding layoffs. The...

3. Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees

   Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · 26 Oct 2026, 22:16 IST · Unconfirmed

   Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees as the technology company continues to adjust its workforce and control costs amid its growing investments in artificial intelligence (AI). Reports from Business Insider...

4. Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its staff

   TNW · 26 Oct 2026, 22:04 IST

   Amy Coleman, Microsoft’s chief people officer, announced the Voluntary Exit Offer in a memo to employees on Monday. It is open to eligible staff in participating teams in Canada, India, the UK and the US, at level 70 and below on...

5. Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees: Report

   Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine · 26 Oct 2026, 21:25 IST

   The reported offer comes as the company’s workforce plans draw attention, with Microsoft yet to respond to a request for comment.

6. Microsoft makes new ‘voluntary exit’ offer to about a quarter of its workforce, including some execs

   GeekWire · 26 Oct 2026, 21:27 IST

   Microsoft’s new buyout offer comes six months after its first-ever voluntary retirement program. (Photo by Dasharath Sunar on Unsplash ) Microsoft is making a new buyout offer to a much broader group of employees, this time including...

7. Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees

   The Verge · 26 Oct 2026, 21:28 IST

   Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees , Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members "the opportunity to...

8. Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say

   TechCrunch · 26 Oct 2026, 21:28 IST

   The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.

9. Unreal Engine 5.8 adds support for Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to remedy stuttering issues

   TechSpot · 26 Oct 2026, 21:19 IST

   Epic recently updated the official documentation for Unreal Engine 5.x, introducing a potentially significant change to how the popular game engine handles shader compilation and the associated stuttering issues. Thanks to a new...

10. Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

    Hacker News · 26 Oct 2026, 21:05 IST

11. Microsoft releases emergency .NET patches for critical Brotli flaw

    BleepingComputer · 26 Oct 2026, 21:08 IST · Critical severity

    Microsoft released emergency .NET security updates to patch a critical vulnerability known as Broccoli2Shell, also tracked as Node2Shell and HTTP2Shell.

12. Microsoft Teams to get AI protection against phishing and fraud

    Computerworld · 26 Oct 2026, 21:13 IST

    Microsoft is adding a new AI-powered security feature to Teams aimed at detecting phishing, scams, and identity theft by analyzing conversations, Bleeping Computer reports. Instead of primarily checking for malicious links and files,...

13. Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra update fixes reboot and display bugs

    The Verge · 26 Oct 2026, 20:58 IST

    Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra was blighted by some nuisance bugs at launch, but now the company has released some new firmware to resolve them. The October 22 release addresses three issues notable issues in particular: screen...

14. Windows 11 VPN Issues Persist After October Update — Here’s Microsoft’s Workaround

    TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 19:23 IST

    Microsoft's October Windows 11 update left an Always On VPN issue unresolved. Here's the temporary workaround for affected enterprise connections. The post Windows 11 VPN Issues Persist After October Update — Here’s Microsoft’s...

15. Microsoft’s AI Diagnoses 83% of Complex Cases, but Can It Work in Hospitals?

    TechRepublic · 26 Oct 2026, 19:37 IST

    Microsoft's MAI-DxO AI outperformed generalist doctors on diagnostic benchmarks, but real-world hospital testing is still needed to assess its clinical value. The post Microsoft’s AI Diagnoses 83% of Complex Cases, but Can It Work in...

16. Microsoft Announces Open Source Tool Evaluating Your Software's Optimization For AI Coding Agents

    Slashdot · 26 Oct 2026, 10:04 IST

    The problem? Understanding how AI coding agents interact with the software you build. "Whether you're maintaining an SDK, building a command-line interface, or publishing an MCP server or skills... you need to understand whether agents...

17. Microsoft plans US$10 billion Middle East cloud and AI investment

    Intelligent CIO ME · 26 Oct 2026, 18:42 IST

    Microsoft plans to invest more than US$10 billion across the Middle East by 2030, expanding cloud and AI infrastructure while strengthening the resilience of digital services used by governments and businesses. The programme includes...

18. Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch Update for Critical .NET Buffer Overflow Flaw

    Infosecurity Magazine · 26 Oct 2026, 18:15 IST

    Microsoft’s updates address two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in the .NET developer platform, as well as flaws not fully addressed in an earlier release

19. Denmark gives up on replacing Microsoft Office, for now

    TechSpot · 26 Oct 2026, 17:33 IST

    Early reports had the whole ministry ditching Microsoft Office by the end of 2025, but what launched on June 19 was a lot more modest – a pilot with 38 volunteers from the department. Those testers swapped Word for Collabora, an...

20. Microsoft Teams will soon use AI to warn you of sneaky phishing scams

    TechRadar · 26 Oct 2026, 16:35 IST

    Mike Moore is Deputy Editor at TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a B2B and B2C technology journalist for over a decade, including at one of the UK's leading national newspapers and fellow Future title ITProPortal, covering everything from...

21. Node2Shell Brotli Flaw Triggers Patching Across Microsoft, Node.js, Python Packages

    SecurityWeek · 26 Oct 2026, 15:51 IST · Medium severity

    An out-of-bounds write in Google’s Brotli decoder affects Node.js, .NET, PowerShell, and Python packages, and can lead to code execution. The post Node2Shell Brotli Flaw Triggers Patching Across Microsoft, Node.js, Python Packages...

22. Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations

    The Hacker News · 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 IST · Medium severity

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a Microsoft 365 campaign that has been observed leveraging an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) relay to capture sign-in sessions and then replay the stolen tokens to break into email accounts at 79...

23. Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained

    Hacker News · 26 Oct 2026, 08:42 IST

24. Quote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 'We have to do something useful with AI, or we'll quickly lose social permission'

    TechRadar · 26 Oct 2026, 04:30 IST

    Keumars Afifi-Sabet is a freelance contributor for Tech Radar and Technology Editor for Live Science. He has written for a variety of publications including ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive. He has worked as a technology...

25. Microsoft's Cloud Storage Changes Frustrate Users - Here's Why

    BGR · 26 Oct 2026, 02:17 IST

    Microsoft has made a series of changes to its offerings in 2026, and its cloud storage is next on the list. Here's why users are so frustrated with the updates.

26. Microsoft, McDonald’s, Verizon, and Others Tell Crypto Platform Not to Tokenize Their Stocks

    Gizmodo · 25 Oct 2026, 20:26 IST

    Crypto companies using “permissionless” tech still need permission when interacting with the real world.

27. Microsoft's Windows Insider wallpapers were apparently made on a Mac

    TechSpot · 25 Oct 2026, 18:56 IST · Unconfirmed

    Most image files carry a small tag naming the app that last saved them, buried in a properties menu that few people ever open. When a Windows developer checked it on Microsoft's newest wallpapers, it pointed to Photoshop running on a...

28. Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck

    GeekWire · 24 Oct 2026, 22:28 IST

    Shaw, Microsoft’s longtime communications chief, in the GeekWire studio. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The name Frank X. Shaw isn’t as well known outside the company as those of Microsoft’s other senior leaders, and that’s the nature...

29. Tech Layoffs 2026: 196,000 Workers Affected as Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft Cut Jobs

    TechRepublic · 24 Oct 2026, 00:51 IST

    Nearly 200,000 workers have been affected by tech layoffs in 2026. See which companies are cutting jobs and what it means for tech workers. The post Tech Layoffs 2026: 196,000 Workers Affected as Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft Cut Jobs...

30. Microsoft Teams Adds AI Phishing Detection for External Chats Starting in Early November

    Ghacks Technology News · 24 Oct 2026, 07:43 IST

    Microsoft will start rolling out AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection in Microsoft Teams in early November 2026, according to a Microsoft 365 Message Center update (MC1519866) published on Wednesday. The protection targets...

31. The Garage never should have existed: Why Microsoft’s grassroots innovation lab worked for so long

    GeekWire · 24 Oct 2026, 00:23 IST · Medium severity

    Posters from Microsoft Garage science fairs and hack events, many funded by the Microsoft groups that hosted them, as seen in 2016. (Photo courtesy of Quinn Hawkins) I saw the news via GeekWire that after 17 years, the Microsoft Garage,...

32. Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection

    BleepingComputer · 24 Oct 2026, 00:24 IST · Medium severity

    Microsoft has announced plans to add AI-powered phishing detection to Teams messages starting in early November 2026.

33. Microsoft Announces Per-Hour Cost for Xbox Cloud Gaming Service

    Slashdot · 23 Oct 2026, 22:30 IST

    Microsoft has revealed pay-as-you-go pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming, with introductory packages costing $3.99 for 10 hours, $7.99 for 25 hours, or $11.99 for 50 hours. Starting in November, Game Pass subscribers will receive only 5 to 15...

34. Microsoft: Windows Server 2016 reaches end of support in January

    BleepingComputer · 23 Oct 2026, 22:35 IST · Low severity

    Microsoft says Windows Server 2016 will stop receiving security updates after it reaches the end of support in January 2027.

35. Microsoft, MeitY Startup Hub, 1M1B launch Green Skills, Applied AI Centre in Hyd

    Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine · 23 Oct 2026, 20:39 IST

    The Centre will offer hands-on learning in applied AI, green pharma, solar energy, electric vehicles and wind energy

36. UK Police detective investigated for allegedly using Microsoft Copilot to make decisions in criminal cases

    TechSpot · 23 Oct 2026, 20:48 IST

    The senior Derbyshire Constabulary officer is facing an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over alleged gross misconduct. According to the BBC, the inquiry began in August, following a voluntary referral...

37. PubKeep picks up where Microsoft Publisher signs off

    The Register · 23 Oct 2026, 19:04 IST

    Microsoft ended support for Publisher this month, but users with orphaned documents still have options. Support for perpetual versions ended on October 13, but those copies will keep working without further security updates, bug fixes,...

38. AI Agents as Insider Threats: Inside Microsoft's Bet on a Unified Security Stack

    darkreading · 23 Oct 2026, 17:08 IST · Unconfirmed

    Microsoft's Project Perception adds Guardian Agents to monitor and contain anomalous AI agents, but experts warn that policing unpredictable agents with other agents may multiply — not contain — the risk.

39. Microsoft 365 accounts compromised at 79 organizations without a single guessed password

    Help Net Security · 23 Oct 2026, 17:15 IST · Medium severity

    An attacker who spent ten weeks replaying stolen Microsoft 365 sign-in sessions broke into email accounts at 79 organizations and used hidden inbox rules to keep victims from seeing parts of their own mail, according to Huntress. The...

40. Widespread Token-Spraying Attacks Target Microsoft 365 Accounts For Email Compromise

    Infosecurity Magazine · 23 Oct 2026, 16:00 IST

    Security researchers identified attempts to access corporate networks which have been linked to a major Microsoft 365-targeted BEC campaign using phishing, stolen session tokens and social engineering