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Microsoft will increase prices for commercial Office subscriptions on July 1, 2026, including a 33% jump for front-line worker plans like Microsoft 365 F1 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/microsoft-will-raise-prices-of…

Microsoft will raise prices of commercial Office subscriptions in July
For the second time in five years, Microsoft is hiking prices for commercial customers of its widely used Office bundles.

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half?
(Original title: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/mic<…

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.

“Former Windows head“ Steven Sinofsky is also a raging Zionist — pass it on https://www.theverge.com/report/872073/steven-sinofsky-jeffrey-epstein-files-emails-microsoft-exit-settlement

Former Windows 8 boss recruited Epstein to help negotiate his messy Microsoft exit
Microsoft’s former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky sought Jeffrey Epstein’s advice during his exit from Microsoft.

Microsoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launch…

Microsoft launches Publisher Content Marketplace for AI licensing
New marketplace lets publishers set terms, track usage, and get paid when AI systems ground answers in premium, licensed content.

#Microsoft is using #ClaudeCode internally while selling you #Copilot

»Microsoft — KI nicht so gefragt wie gedacht, Vertriebsquoten reduziert:
Microsoft hat wohl Probleme, seine mit großem Aufwand in nahezu alle Produkte des Softwaregiganten integrierten KI-Services zu vermarkten. […]«
Egal welche Hersteller, deren überhöten Gewinnwünsche sind nur absurd und deutet mMn auf die nächste finanziellen Absturz hin. Darunter leiden dann die Gekündigten und nicht die Firmen selbst.
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Microsoft: KI nicht so gefragt wie gedacht, Vertriebsquoten reduziert
Microsoft hat wohl Probleme, seine mit großem Aufwand in nahezu alle Produkten des Softwaregiganten integrierten KI-Services zu vermarkten. Der Konzern soll deshalb jüngst die Verkaufsziele für seinen Vertrieb rund um KI-Produkte herabgesetzt haben.

SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-really-wants-you-to-stop-calling-ai-slop-in-2026

Microsoft moves Build from Seattle back to San Francisco, scheduled for June 2-3, instead of May, and invites 2,500 developers, down from the usual ~3K to ~5K (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/888004/microsoft-build-2026-san-francisco-june

Microsoft’s big developer conference returns to San Francisco in June
Microsoft is moving its Build developer conference. The event will now take place in a smaller venue in San Francisco, as Microsoft draws in AI developers.

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)

AMD hints Microsoft could launch its next-gen Xbox in 2027
AMD says it’s ready to support Microsoft launching its next-gen Xbox in 2027. The pair have partnered to work on a custom chip for the next Xbox.

Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developing-alternative-micro…

OpenAI Is Developing an Internal Alternative to Microsoft’s GitHub
OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft’s popular code repository that lets software engineers store, share and collaborate on computer code, according to a person with knowledge of the project. The decision to embark on the new product came after OpenAI engineers, like other ...