product strategy

Lyft CEO David Risher’s recent public praise for Oura Ring, Starbucks, and Microsoft lands at a moment when Microsoft itself has signaled a major strategic pivot — shipping its first in‑house MAI models and doubling down on an AI‑centric infrastructure plan that changes the calculus for Copilot...

Microsoft’s move to ship MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview marks a clear strategic inflection: the company is no longer only a buyer and integrator of frontier models but a serious producer of first‑party models engineered to run inside Copilot and across Microsoft’s consumer surfaces. Microsoft...

Microsoft’s AI unit has publicly launched two in‑house models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — signaling a deliberate shift from purely integrating third‑party frontier models toward building product‑focused models Microsoft can own, tune, and route inside Copilot and Azure. (theverge.com)...

Paul Thurrott is rethinking Thurrott.com from the ground up: a retooled Windows 11 Field Guide tied to Windows release cadence, a new travel-focused podcast, consolidated and free weekly newsletters, and a planned overhaul of the site’s membership and UI systems — changes that aim to simplify...

Satya Nadella turned Elon Musk’s blunt “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive” jab into a public moment that highlighted both the high drama and the high stakes of the GPT-5 rollout, answering the provocation with measured confidence and a strategic emphasis on partnership, product integration...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, OpenAI's ChatGPT has emerged as a dominant force, significantly outpacing Microsoft's Copilot in user adoption and market penetration. Despite Microsoft's strategic partnership with OpenAI and its early entry into the AI assistant...

The most recent cumulative update for Windows 10 has ignited an unexpectedly heated debate within the Windows community, owing to a subtle yet powerful disruption: a core feature of the beloved Start menu has suddenly stopped working for many users. In what feels like an increasingly familiar...

This question has been hanging in my head for a bit and want a windows users perspective on it. With support for XP now finally gone and with the failures of Windows Vista and 8 I think its time for Microsoft to re evaluate its current stance on windows 7. As of October sales of windows 7 have...

According to available information, it looks like OEMs will likely be paying almost double the price for Windows RT (Windows 8 for ARM) versus what they've payed in the past for Windows 7. As explained in the article, there may be some underlying strategy and logic for the cost but it seems a...