devtake.dev — #microsoftArticles tagged microsoft on devtake.dev.https://devtake.dev/en-usXbox is planning major layoffs in July as new CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the unithttps://devtake.dev/article/xbox-layoffs-asha-sharma/https://devtake.dev/article/xbox-layoffs-asha-sharma/Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Xbox plans significant job cuts after June 30, as new CEO Asha Sharma tells staff a 3% margin can't continue. Microsoft hasn't confirmed.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:15:00 GMTgaminggamingxboxmicrosoftlayoffshiro-tanakaGitHub banned the researcher dropping Windows zero-days. The code was already mirrored everywhere.https://devtake.dev/article/github-bans-researcher-windows-zero-day/https://devtake.dev/article/github-bans-researcher-windows-zero-day/GitHub wiped Nightmare-Eclipse's account on May 23 after weeks of unpatched Windows exploits. The ban reopened the oldest fight in security: who decides what research gets hosted?Fri, 29 May 2026 06:50:00 GMTsecuritysecuritygithubvulnerability-disclosurezero-daymicrosoftwindowssupply-chainrceluca-reinhardtMicrosoft just open-sourced 86-DOS. Tim Paterson's 45-year-old listings are now on GitHub under MIT.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-dos-historical-source-open-sourced/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-dos-historical-source-open-sourced/Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini scanned Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts. Microsoft pushed them to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings on April 28, the 45th anniversary.Mon, 25 May 2026 12:30:00 GMTopen-sourcemicrosoftms-dos86-dosopen-sourcecomputer-historygithubmit-licensetim-patersonsoren-vanekScammers turned a Microsoft notification address into a spam relay. The emails pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-internal-account-spam-abuse/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-internal-account-spam-abuse/Spammers found a Tenant Name injection in Entra ID that pushes fraud text into Microsoft's own OTP emails. The from-line reads msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com.Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTsecuritysecuritymicrosoftentra-idphishingdmarcspamhausemail-securitycredential-theftluca-reinhardtC# is getting union types in version 15. The preview shipped in .NET 11 Preview 2.https://devtake.dev/article/csharp-15-union-types-preview/https://devtake.dev/article/csharp-15-union-types-preview/Mads Torgersen's union proposal landed in .NET 11 Preview 2 on April 2. C# 15 targets November 2026 and replaces the OneOf library hack the .NET community has been living with.Sun, 24 May 2026 09:30:00 GMTopen-sourcedotnetcsharplanguage-releasemicrosoftpattern-matchingdev-toolsfsharptypescriptsoren-vanekMicrosoft is canceling Claude Code for its engineers. They have until June 30 to switch to Copilot CLI.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-cancels-claude-code-licenses/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-cancels-claude-code-licenses/Internal Claude Code licenses end June 30, 2026, for Microsoft's Experiences + Devices group. Engineers move to GitHub Copilot CLI instead.Sat, 23 May 2026 10:00:00 GMTaimicrosoftanthropicclaude-codegithub-copilotcopilot-cliai-assistantagentic-codingdieter-morelliMicrosoft is killing SMS codes on consumer Microsoft accounts. Passkeys take over by December.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-authenticator-sms-passkeys-end/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-authenticator-sms-passkeys-end/Microsoft is phasing out SMS sign-in and recovery on personal Microsoft accounts by December 2026. Replacements: passkeys, Authenticator, or verified email.Thu, 21 May 2026 11:30:00 GMTsecuritymicrosoftpasskeyssmsauthenticationfido2microsoft-authenticatorsim-swapsecurityluca-reinhardtA federal jury took two hours to throw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.https://devtake.dev/article/musk-openai-lawsuit-jury-verdict/https://devtake.dev/article/musk-openai-lawsuit-jury-verdict/On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.Tue, 19 May 2026 10:15:00 GMTpolicypolicyopenaielon-musksam-altmanlawsuitmicrosoftai-governanceregulationclara-wexlerA USB stick now opens a BitLocker drive in 60 seconds. The researcher calls it a backdoor.https://devtake.dev/article/yellowkey-bitlocker-zero-day-bypass/https://devtake.dev/article/yellowkey-bitlocker-zero-day-bypass/A pseudonymous researcher dropped two unpatched Windows zero-days on May 12. YellowKey bypasses BitLocker via WinRE; Microsoft has not acknowledged either bug.Thu, 14 May 2026 10:15:00 GMTsecuritysecuritybitlockermicrosoftwindowszero-daywinretpmfull-disk-encryptionluca-reinhardtMicrosoft tested 19 LLMs as document editors. Even the best ones corrupted 25% of the content.https://devtake.dev/article/llms-corrupt-documents-delegation-errors/https://devtake.dev/article/llms-corrupt-documents-delegation-errors/The DELEGATE-52 benchmark tests AI editing across 52 professional domains. Frontier models corrupt a quarter of document content over long workflows.Sun, 10 May 2026 09:00:00 GMTaillmai-modelsbenchmarksmicrosoftdelegationvibe-codingdieter-morelliVS Code shipped 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' on every commit by default. Microsoft is reverting it.https://devtake.dev/article/vscode-ai-coauthor-default-pr-310226/https://devtake.dev/article/vscode-ai-coauthor-default-pr-310226/A two-line PR flipped the AI co-author flag from off to all in April. Hand-typed commits started getting Copilot attribution. The maintainer apologized and promised a fix in 1.119.Tue, 05 May 2026 09:15:00 GMTwebgithub-copilotvscodemicrosoftdev-toolsai-coauthorgitjavascriptai-assistantluca-reinhardtMicrosoft Edge keeps every saved password in cleartext memory. Microsoft calls it 'by design'.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-edge-cleartext-passwords-memory/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-edge-cleartext-passwords-memory/A researcher showed Edge decrypts the entire password vault at launch and leaves it in process memory. Chrome decrypts on demand. Microsoft says it's intentional.Tue, 05 May 2026 08:45:00 GMTsecuritysecuritymicrosoftedgebrowser-securitycredential-theftchromiumpasswordsprivacyluca-reinhardtGitHub Copilot's Claude Opus multiplier jumps to 27x on June 1. Monthly plans dodge the hike.https://devtake.dev/article/github-copilot-multiplier-hike-june-2026/https://devtake.dev/article/github-copilot-multiplier-hike-june-2026/GitHub's new model multiplier table for Copilot Pro and Pro+ annual plans lands June 1. Opus 4.6 goes 3 to 27. Sonnet 4.6 goes 1 to 9.Mon, 04 May 2026 10:45:00 GMTaigithub-copilotgithubai-agentspricingmicrosoftanthropicclaude-opusdev-toolsdieter-morelliMicrosoft open-sourced the earliest known DOS code, transcribed from a stack of Tim Paterson's printouts.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-dos-source-code-open-sourced/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-dos-source-code-open-sourced/MIT-licensed at GitHub on April 28, the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots were OCR'd from 45-year-old assembler listings.Sun, 03 May 2026 12:45:00 GMTopen-sourcemicrosoftdos86-dosopen-sourceretrocomputingmit-licensegithubtim-patersonsoren-vanekHyperscalers are on track to spend $700B on AI infrastructure in 2026https://devtake.dev/article/hyperscaler-700b-ai-capex-2026/https://devtake.dev/article/hyperscaler-700b-ai-capex-2026/Big-tech AI capex is projected at $700B in 2026, up from $410B in 2025. Microsoft alone guided $190B. Wall Street is split: Meta got punished for the spend, Alphabet rallied.Fri, 01 May 2026 10:45:00 GMTaiai-infrastructureinfrastructuredata-centershyperscalermicrosoftalphabetmetaai-chipsdieter-morelliGitHub Copilot kills premium requests on June 1. Token billing arrives, fallback models do not.https://devtake.dev/article/github-copilot-usage-based-billing/https://devtake.dev/article/github-copilot-usage-based-billing/On June 1 every Copilot plan switches to GitHub AI Credits priced per token. Code completions stay free. Fallback models and credit rollover do not.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:00:00 GMTaigithub-copilotgithubai-agentspricingmicrosoftanthropicclaude-opusdev-toolsdieter-morelliMicrosoft and OpenAI just rewrote their deal. Exclusivity is dead, and so is the AGI clause.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-openai-deal-revenue-share-end/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-openai-deal-revenue-share-end/Microsoft loses exclusive rights to OpenAI's models. The revenue share now caps at 2030 and stops depending on AGI. Here's what actually changed and who it benefits.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMTaiopenaimicrosoftai-modelsazurellmai-infrastructureanthropicgpt-5-5dieter-morelliMicrosoft April 2026 Patch Tuesday: 167 fixes, two zero-days, and a SharePoint bug already in CISA's KEVhttps://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-patch-tuesday-april-2026-sharepoint/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-patch-tuesday-april-2026-sharepoint/Microsoft's April 8 Patch Tuesday closes 167 CVEs. CVE-2026-32201 in SharePoint is being exploited and CISA added it the same day. Here's what to patch first.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:00:00 GMTsecuritymicrosoftpatch-tuesdaycve-2026-32201sharepointdefenderzero-daysecuritycisa-kevluca-reinhardtMicrosoft rushed an out-of-band ASP.NET Core patch. If you shipped between April 14 and April 21, you need to rebuild.https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-aspnet-emergency-patch/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-aspnet-emergency-patch/CVE-2026-40372 lets attackers forge auth cookies on .NET 10.0.6 apps on Linux and macOS. The fix is 10.0.7. Here's what broke, who's exposed, and how to patch.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:30:00 GMTsecuritymicrosoftaspnetdotnetcve-2026-40372data-protectionout-of-band-patchsupply-chainluca-reinhardtGitHub Copilot paused new signups and kicked Opus out of Pro. Here's what actually changed.https://devtake.dev/article/github-copilot-pro-plan-changes/https://devtake.dev/article/github-copilot-pro-plan-changes/GitHub froze Copilot Pro/Pro+/Student signups on April 20 and moved Claude Opus 4.7 behind the $39 Pro+ tier. Agent workflows broke the old math.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:30:00 GMTaigithub-copilotanthropicmicrosoftclaude-opusai-agentspricingdev-toolsdieter-morelli