In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss phone upgrade cycles, Microsoft offloading its HoloLens US military contract to another company, and how the upcoming Microsoft Build and Google I/O developer conferences are about to overlap each other in May.
On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY2025 Q2 earnings and whether the company’s massive investments in AI are starting to pay off.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss organizational shakeups at Microsoft, including the recent departure of the company’s Executive Vice President of business development.
Microsoft is gearing up for another wave of job cuts, this time targeting employees deemed underperforming. According to a new report from Business Insider, the layoffs will span multiple departments, including the critical security division. Microsoft has been conducting performance evaluations across the company over several months in order to identify areas for improvement. The…
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s recent Copilot key changes, Asus announcing a new Copilot+ PC NUC, and CES 2025 being just around the corner.
Microsoft is taking legal action to disrupt 240 websites owned by a cybercrime group in Egypt. The sites are connected to Abanoub Nady (MRxC0DER), who develops and sells DIY phishing kits under the ONNX brand name. The ONNX name is being used fraudulently to sell the do-it-yourself phishing kits, which are used by many cybercriminals…
On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Ignite conference for IT Pros this week, as well as the US DOJ formally recommending that Google should be forced to divest itself of its Chrome web browser.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY25 Q1 earnings and why it may not make sense for the company to continue to invest in Surface hardware.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the antitrust complaint Google filed with the EU Commission this week regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY24 Q4 earnings, which also wrap up Microsoft’s first full fiscal year of the AI era.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott look back at the impact of the massive CloudStrike outage that affected millions of Windows PCs. They also discuss Microsoft not taking the blame after being forced by the European Commission to open up Windows to third-party security companies.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Paul Thurrott discusses his experience using the Qualcomm-powered Surface Laptop 7 and how this first generation of Copilot+ PCs is making Windows on ARM exciting again.