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Microsoft announced on July 6, 2026, that it will cut about 4,800 jobs, roughly 2.1 percent of its global workforce, with reductions concentrated in commercial sales, consulting, and Xbox as it redirects spending toward artificial intelligence infrastructure and enterprise AI deployment. The...

Microsoft said on July 6, 2026, that it would cut roughly 4,800 jobs worldwide, about 2.1 percent of its workforce, while launching a major Xbox restructuring that includes immediate gaming layoffs and a broader shake-up through fiscal 2027. The cuts, first detailed across reports from Reuters...

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to cut thousands of jobs as early as next week, with reductions expected to affect less than 2.5 percent of its roughly 228,000-person workforce across sales, consulting, and Xbox-related teams worldwide. That would put the likely ceiling below about 5,700...

Microsoft is expected to unveil a suite of homegrown AI models at its Build developer conference in San Francisco on June 2–3, 2026, including a coding model aimed at strengthening GitHub Copilot, according to reporting attributed to The Information and Reuters. The announcement, if it lands as...

Microsoft Build 2026 runs June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, with Microsoft expected to focus less on a hypothetical Windows 12 reveal and more on AI agents, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows AI tooling, and the developer plumbing behind its next software cycle...

Microsoft is turning its AI transition into a company-wide operating model in 2026, using Azure, Copilot, GitHub, Windows, and its OpenAI relationship to recast itself from a software vendor into an infrastructure-and-workflow platform for enterprise artificial intelligence. The misunderstanding...

Udemy’s latest move to bundle Microsoft certification vouchers into its learning marketplace is more than a convenience upgrade. It is a deliberate push to own more of the certification funnel, from first lesson to final exam, and it arrives as demand for Microsoft skills continues to surge...

Microsoft’s reported hiring pause in parts of its cloud and sales organizations is less a routine budget trim than a signal of how aggressively the company is trying to rebalance growth, margins, and AI-era capital intensity. According to The Information, managers in some of Microsoft’s biggest...