The Big Tech earnings reporting season kicked off this afternoon with Meta, Microsoft and Tesla releasing quarterly results after the closing bell. Follow our live coverage here.

Engineers are now focusing on performance, reliability, and the overall Windows experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

As tech companies spend billions on artificial intelligence data centers and computer chips, fears of an AI bubble held privately by Wall Street traders and some Big Tech titans are beginning to pop into public view.

Tech expert Erik Gordon warns of a colossal AI bubble, comparing its size to Jupiter, and predicts a devastating burst for investors. He cites Microsoft's recent stock dip following cloud revenue misses as a significant warning sign.

Microsoft launches Maia 200 AI chip on TSMC 3nm for Azure, delivering 10+ petaFLOPS to reduce costs and Nvidia reliance in cloud computing.

Microsoft, from the outside, seemed to have all the things lined up—a partnership with OpenAI, integration of it in the ecosystem, and a marketing system that was enough to push the Copilot assistant everywhere. Yet, despite it, the adoption has just ...

Thousands of Microsoft 365 users were reporting outages on Jan. 22. Here's the latest.