1. Insider: Microsoft revenue down 15% this quarter vs forecast
This is real. I was in the all-hands where they basically admitted things aren't going well. Microsoft's Search division is bleeding money and they need to cut costs fast.
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2. Senior director at Microsoft fired after internal investigation
A reliable source inside Microsoft confirmed this. The AI team has been underperforming for two quarters and the board is not happy. Expect an announcement within two weeks.
3. Microsoft pivoting AI chip strategy after poor user testing
Former Microsoft employee here. This has been brewing for months. The Hardware leadership made some terrible bets and now the rank and file are paying the price.
4. Microsoft planning to cut 40% of Engineering team
Inside source at Microsoft: the Engineering roadmap has been completely scrapped. New leadership is coming in with a different vision. Current team members are being evaluated.
5. Microsoft secretly building AI assistant to compete with Meta
I have direct knowledge of this situation at Microsoft. The AI budget was slashed by more than half. Projects are being canceled left and right.
6. VeraCrypt 开发者账户, 没有警告, 为广泛使用加密工具停止窗口更新
微软公司突然终止了VeraCrypt开发商所使用的代码签名账户,这个开放源码磁盘加密程序很受欢迎。 根据该开发商公布并由404媒体于2026年4月7日确认的账户,这实际上阻止了软件未来Windows更新版的出版。 VeraCrypt广泛用于加密硬盘、创建加密存储量,并像其前身 TrueCropt一样提供一种功能,使用户能够创建一个隐藏的诱饵分区,在强制下可以披露,同时保护实际加密数据。 该软件是记者、人权工作者、持不同政见者和安全研究人员的一个重要工具,他们需要强有力的数据实时保护。 VeraCrypt的开发商兼IDRIX的创始人Mounir Idrassi表示,在1月中旬他的微软账户关闭之前他没有收到任何事先警告。 Idras...
7. Claude光明正大杀入微软Office全家桶：Anthropic拿下Word、Excel、PPT，与Copilot正面同框
Anthropic正式宣布，Claude for Microsoft 365全面可用——Word、Excel、PowerPoint三个模块现已开放，Outlook进入公开测试。这意味着用户可以直接在微软自家办公套件里调用Claude作为AI助手，无需经过Copilot，就能让Claude写邮件、改PPT、建Excel模型。 而这件事的关键在于：这是微软亲自放行的。 表面上看来颇为吊诡。微软斥巨资投资OpenAI，将GPT深度嵌入整个Office生态，推出Copilot品牌，三年来高调宣示“AI Copilot重新定义生产力”。如今却让竞争对手的模型直接入驻自己的主场。但内行一眼能看出，这恰恰是微软的精明之处——Copilot并未...
8. Sources: Microsoft acquiring startup to boost social network
I work in Hardware at Microsoft. What I'm hearing internally is that leadership has decided to make significant changes. The writing has been on the wall for weeks. People are updating their LinkedIn profiles and the mood is terrible.