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AI is taking its place in the software we use every day. After several months of testing, Google, Adobe and Microsoft announced the end of the free trial period. To continue to enjoy their respective artificial intelligence, we will have to pay.

The major technological challenges of tomorrow: after smartphone The technological challenge of the day is to succeed the smartphone, which is already more than 15 years old, and whose disappearance is already announced by some.

AI in Windows: PCs soon easier to use than Mac ? Microsoft, OPENAI major investor and major partner around Chatgpt, drives the highlight of artificial intelligence by announcing Windows 11 Copilot, IA integration at the heart of Windows, the operating system of PCs. An imminent revolution for beginners and daily users.

Google: The time of response against Chatgpt and Microsoft The Duel Remote is relaunched between Google and Microsoft around generative artificial intelligence, this AI symbolized by Chatgpt – in which Microsoft has invested massively. On May 10, at the opening of its Google I/O 2023 conference, the Mountain View giant presented its response to Microsoft by playing the innovation and responsibility card.

Digital: a new strict regulation for large Thierry Breton platforms, European commissioner in charge of digital, has announced that the largest internet platforms such as Microsoft, Apple, Google or Amazon, will now be careful, to failure to be able to continue their activity in the union.

Internet research: Microsoft, with the help of chatgpt, defies Google this week, Microsoft and Google, a few hours apart, presented their innovations in the field of artificial intelligence applied to search engines. Stake: reinvent the way we do internet research. Since then, the virtual monopoly of Google has been questioned by Microsoft.

Replay. Massive layoffs, end of telework: GAFAM in crisis ? The debate of Talk Franceinfo Microsoft, Amazon and Google: these web giants have all announced to make the layoffs of 10,000 employees each. What’s going on with the GAFAMs ? This is the subject of Talk franceinfo. Every evening from 6 p.m., Manon Mella and her guests debate with Internet users of the Franceinfo Twitch channel.

Access to several Microsoft services disrupted due to breakdowns The computer group recognized “network configuration problems” on Wednesday, after complaints from around the world.

Google, Microsoft, Meta and Twitter dismiss the tech giants out of a traumatic week with the announcement of several massive layoffs: Google, Friday January 20, Wednesday 18, after Amazon, Twitter and Twitter and Twitter and Twitter Meta in particular.

Microsoft: the American company will fire around 10.000 Microsoft employees is preparing to dismiss around 10.000 of its employees by the end of March. The boss of the company is justified by evoking a bad economic situation.

The American computer giant Microsoft announces that it wants to dismiss 10,000 employees the CEO of the company Satya Nadella explained its decision on Wednesday in a letter to its employees.

Video games: How Activision was relaunched with the record launch of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II” the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II “released on October 28 has garnered a billion dollars in recipes in just 10 days. A record for an opus of this franchise. A success for the publisher Activision-Blizzard which was inspired by the famous game “Fortnite” to revive.

Piracy: a Vosges student targeted by the FBI An IT student from the Vosges is accused of cybercrime by the FBI. American services accuse him of being one of the important members of a group of hackers who have stolen nearly 200 million data on the Internet.

With Internet Explorer stop, Microsoft definitively ends a digital symbol The American firm stops its historic browser on Wednesday, which dominated the market for many years. Even if he had gradually fell into disuse, there remains a symbol and an important marker for users and the history of digital.

Have a video game in hand, is it soon over ? Like what we have known about film and music industries, the physical supports of video games tend to disappear.

Ten years later, the Google Glass have a successor ten years after the first presentation of the Google Glass, considered the very first augmented reality glasses, Google has just revealed a prototype of new connected glasses which give a very concrete meaning to augmented reality.

Detox. No, Bill Gates’s Twitter account was not suspended by Elon Musk on social networks, Internet users claim that the Bill Gates’s Twitter account, long fortune in the world, would have been suspended by the one who now occupies the first Place of the ranking: Elon Musk, who has just acquired the social network in the blue bird.

Digital Market Act, a regulation of European digital markets, adopted in Brussels European bodies have reached a consensus on digital market act, a regulation aimed at supervising the activity of digital giants.

Video games: flagship licenses, metarers, inclusion. Five questions about the colossal takeover of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft on January 18, Microsoft announced the takeover of Activision Blizzard, giant of the video game sector. Thanks to this acquisition, the Redmond group recovers flagship licenses like “Call of Duty” and “World of Warcraft” and a multitude of development studios that could allow it to reinvent the players’ experience in the long term.

Microsoft buys the video game publisher Activision Blizzard is the story of a takeover that has been shaking the whole planet of video games since January 18, and the check is rather big, 60 billion euros.

Video games: Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $ 69 billion Activision Blizzard, video game jewels was acquired by Microsoft for $ 69 billion.

The new regulations on digital services before the European Parliament: what challenges for GAFA ? Two acronyms – DMA and DSA – symbolize the future regulation, in Europe, of online content and platforms. While the vote of the European Parliament on the DSA is scheduled for Thursday, January 20, 2022, why Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and the other digital giants have so afraid ?

VR, haptic return, playing by car: the new features at CES in Las Vegas The CES show on new technologies ended on Friday January 7 in Las Vegas. Several innovations of course concern video games. We detail them here.

Video games: “Halo Infinite”, the Master Chief signs a convincing return without being overturning much awaited by its fans, the Master Chief finally arrives on the Xbox Series and PC for a sixth canon episode of the saga called “Halo Infinite”. After having encountered many obstacles along the way to the point of being mocked and repelled by one year, what about the flagship FPS of the Xbox ? The Franceinfo test.

Two consoles, games accessible to all. For its 20th anniversary, Xbox adapts to the new habits of its players for the 20th anniversary of the release of the first console of Microsoft, Ina Gelbert, director of Xbox France, explains how Sony’s main competitor on the field “Next Gen” consoles seeks to improve the gaming experience by meeting the new needs of its Gamers Communality.

Video game: With Netflix Games, Netflix wants its share of the Netflix cake has just launched a new service called Netflix Games, available for no additional cost, for all subscribers to its streaming platform: first five video games on smartphone, Android and iOS. A first foray into the field of gaming for Netflix, under the pressure of Amazon, Google and Apple, with colossal issues.

Microsoft: the revenge of a tech veteran, boosted by the Microsoft cloud, a bit old -fashioned by the giants of the net, is today in a brilliant form.

New world. Windows 11: We tested it in preview What is the interest of this free Windows update, available on October 5, and must be installed ? We have tried the new version of the operating system for PC. No major novelty and several disappointed hopes.

A discovery flaw on the remote computer service of Microsoft has weakened thousands of companies. The problem would not have been fortunately exploited by computer hackers, according to the American giant.

Israeli software used to spy on several activists and journalists according to a group of experts in total, more than a hundred people worldwide have been targeted by these “cyber-armes”.

American company Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It is known worldwide for its Windows operating system used on the majority of personal and professional computers and for its sequence of programs Microsoft Office, to which the famous software belongs Microsoft Word. Today it has diversified with its Windows Phone, Internet Explorer, Skype, but also video games, databases and solutions for companies. Since the retirement of Bill Gates in early 2014, Satya Nadella is now at the head of Microsoft.

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Panos Panay, creator of the surface computers, leaves Microsoft and would join Amazon

Microsoft loses its chief designer. Panos Panay, father of the surface apparatus and who was now in charge until the development of Windows, bows out after 19 years. He would go to Amazon a priori to take over his hardware division, in difficulty for a few years.

Oracle cloud databases are now available on Microsoft Azure

Oracle and Microsoft make an alliance to allow users of Oracle databases to house them natively in Azure.

Microsoft is launching a start-up accelerator on generative AI projects at Station F

12 French start-ups will be able to participate in the generative AI Startup Program organized by Microsoft in Paris from the end of October. They will be supported in their efforts to integrate generative artificial intelligence by the company and its partners.

Generative: Microsoft will cover its customers in the event of a prosecution for violation of intellectual property

Brad Smith, president of the Redmond firm, promised to assume any legal responsibility if the tools of generative artificial intelligence of his business were to put his professional customers in embarrassment for violation of laws on copyright.

D-Matrix lifts $ 110 million for its chips dedicated to the inference of AI models

This is evidenced by the success of NVIDIA, semiconductor manufacturers also take advantage of the boom of generative artificial intelligence. Specializing in the inference of AI models, the D-Matrix States-up-up has just raised $ 110 million.

Apple and Microsoft seek to exclude iMessage and Bing from the scope of European DMA

The European Commission must publish the list of services which will be affected by Digital Markets Act, the regulation project which aims to strengthen competition in digital.

Microsoft will make WordPad disappear in the next version of Windows

It is emblematic software for its Windows operating system that Microsoft has chosen to disconnect in a future update. WordPad, thanks to its free and simplicity, was still used by many users.

Antitrust: Microsoft will decouple Teams from his office automation Office 365 in Europe

Pressed by the opening of a European investigation into integration deemed anti -competitive team at its office consequences, Microsoft promises major changes to its European customers.

T-Mobile, Getri, SecureWorks, Tripadvisor… Our recap ‘of tech dismissals

The Quick Commerce dismissals even faster than it delivers, restructuring in telecoms in the United States, social plans in cybersecurity. Update on the job situation in August.

The Python programming language arrives in testing in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft has teamed up with Anaconda, the free and open source distribution platform of the Python programming language. Excel users will be able to use it directly in their spreadsheets for data analysis.

Activision acquisition: Microsoft subjects a restructured offer with the help of Ubisoft

In response to the blocking of its acquisition of Activision-Blizzard-King by the British Competition Authority, Microsoft has just proposed a restructured offer which relies on an agreement with the French publisher Ubisoft. Microsoft will give him the cloud broadcasting rights of Activision Games.

Microsoft interrupts production of its Azure Kinect camera

This is the second death for the camera, which had had a small commercial success when it was launched in 2010.

To avoid security systems, phishing campaigns are put in QR code

A first major campaign was detected, notably against a large American oil group. QR code allow not to be detected by electronic mail filtering systems.

Video games: services and virtual goods jostle the console model

Revenues from virtual goods and subscriptions will reach $ 21 billion this year according to an ALANYSIS study.

Box integrates Microsoft 365 COPILOT to its cloud solutions for companies

Box announces that he will integrate the smart agent 365 Copilot of Microsoft within his cloud solutions, although the latter has still not stopped marketing date for his tool.

To attract advertisers, Netflix lowers its advertising prices

The American video streaming platform had set very high prices for its new offer with advertisements. She had to revise her ambitions down after difficult beginnings.

Brussels opens an antitrust procedure against Microsoft Teams

After the failure of negotiations with the American giant, the European Commission will investigate the commercial policy around the Teams collaboration platform.

AXA deploys its internal generative AI platform, based on OPENAI tools

The AXA group has created in collaboration with Microsoft a solution dedicated to its employees, in order to give them tools to help the production of images, texts and code.

Google, Microsoft, Openai and Anthropic combine to create the generative AI lobby

Four of the leaders of generative artificial intelligence create the frontier Model Forum, an interest group which will play an intermediary role in the development of legislations on AI.

Microsoft records its lowest growth in six years

In the midst of a race on artificial intelligence and the cloud, Microsoft announced an increase in its turnover below that to which the company had used.

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