Microsoft extends Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027

Learn from Microsoft: Transform software development through an agentic platform

Microsoft chia sẻ cách họ chuyển đổi quy trình phát triển phần mềm nội bộ bằng cách triển khai nền tảng agentic (agentic platform) xuyên suốt toàn bộ vòng đời kỹ thuật. Hơn 90% nhà phát triển Microsoft sử dụng GitHub Copilot, 90% pull request được xem xét bởi AI, và Azure SRE Agent đã tiết kiệm hơn 50.000 giờ làm việc của nhà phát triển. Những kết quả nổi bật bao gồm tỷ lệ chính xác 80-90% khi di chuyển hàng trăm kho lưu trữ, giảm 55% công việc thủ công, và 88% nhà phát triển báo cáo tăng năng suất nhiệm vụ. Bài viết giới thiệu loạt blog "Customer Zero" với các trường hợp sử dụng thực tế như tự động hóa ứng phó sự cố, quản lý bảo mật tuân thủ quy mô lớn, và chuyển đổi vận hành mạng Azure.

Những công nghệ AI như GitHub Copilot và Azure SRE Agent không chỉ là công cụ hỗ trợ, mà là cách mới để tăng hiệu quả làm việc, giảm thiểu công việc thủ công và nâng cao chất lượng phát triển phần mềm trong tương lai.

Former Microsoft Quantum CTO’s New Chinese-Based Startup Lands Pre-A Funding

Taiyi Quantum, a six-month-old Shanghai-based startup, has raised 300 million yuan (~$44M USD) in a Pre-A funding round led by Gaorong Venture Capital and IDG Capital. The company is led by Liu Hongbin, a former Microsoft Azure Quantum Principal Architect who worked on Microsoft's neutral-atom initiative with Atom Computing. Taiyi is developing a ytterbium-based neutral-atom quantum computer, leveraging laser-trapped atoms as qubits. Ytterbium offers advantages including stable nuclear-spin qubit states, precise laser control, and reduced noise compared to alkali atoms like rubidium or cesium. The large raise for such a young startup signals growing investor confidence in China's quantum computing sector.

I use a single PC for my coding, gaming, and self-hosting tasks without them sabotaging each other

A developer shares how they use a single gaming PC for coding, gaming, and self-hosting by leveraging virtualization. The setup uses Hyper-V with a NixOS VM as the primary dev environment, WSL2 for Debian and Arch Linux instances, Windows Sandbox for risky PowerShell experiments, and Podman Desktop for containerized self-hosted apps. Games requiring kernel-level anti-cheat run natively on bare-metal Windows 11, while lighter games stream from a separate Proxmox node. Syncthing handles file sync between the VM and host.

Valve can afford a niche, pricey hardware launch; Sony and Microsoft can’t

Hardware pricing pressures driven by supply chain disruptions and tariffs have pushed Valve's new Steam Machine past $1000, but Valve can survive as a niche product. Sony and Microsoft face a far more existential threat: their upcoming PlayStation 6 and Project Helix consoles must achieve mass-market scale, yet face the same or worse component pricing. Both companies are reportedly reconsidering console strategies — Microsoft hinting at spec tiers, streaming options, or hardware payment plans, while Sony is doubling down on high-profile exclusives to justify premium price tags. A $1000+ entry-level console risks pricing out the mass market entirely, leaving platform holders with few levers to pull.

Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise

Italy's competition authority (AGCM) has opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft over alleged unfair commercial practices related to its Microsoft 365 price increase. The probe centers on how Microsoft automatically moved customers to a more expensive Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with insufficient disclosure about the AI integration. The investigation is not a finding of wrongdoing but examines whether the opt-out default architecture unduly limited consumer choice. Microsoft's 365 price increases take effect July 1, 2026, and the company faces antitrust scrutiny on multiple fronts including from the US FTC.

Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL

Microsoft has released the first public preview of WSL Containers (WSLC) as part of WSL 2.9.3, bringing a native Linux container experience to Windows 11. The new 'wslc' command line tool supports full container lifecycle management, networking options, GPU support from day one, and SDK integration for C++ and C#/WinRT. Additional improvements include VirtIOFS as the new default filesystem for up to 2x faster performance, networking enhancements, and improved memory reclaim.

400 newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI

A coalition owning nearly 400 local US newspapers has filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court. The 55-page complaint alleges the companies systematically crawled hundreds of news sites — including paywalled content — copied articles to train ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, and stripped copyright management information such as author bylines and publication names. Led by Richner Communications and attorney Matthew Platkin, the publishers seek statutory damages, actual damages, profit disgorgement, and legal fees. The case is notable as the largest coordinated legal action by local and regional press against AI companies, arguing the unlicensed use constitutes a 'death knell' for already financially strained local journalism. OpenAI continues to assert a fair use defense across all similar cases, while the publishers argue that covert paywall crawling and deliberate removal of ownership metadata undermine that defense.