If your artistic style is more stick-figure than Picasso, Microsoft has a remedy to boost your creativity: adding artificial intelligence to its Paint application.

For more than a year-and-a-half, users of Microsoft Edge for Windows had access to a powerful tool in the browser sidebar that demonstrated both the everyday utility and the long-term potential of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) cloud computing platform Azure continued to be the growth driver for the stock when the software giant reported its fiscal Q1 earnings. However, the company's guidance for Azure,

The price increases vary across Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. In Australia, for example, Microsoft has increased Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions by $4 AUD per month, and Personal subscriptions by $5 AUD. That’s a lot less than the $33 AUD Microsoft wanted for Copilot Pro in Australia previously.

Microsoft is adding AI-powered text editing to Notepad, the stripped-down text editor originally introduced in 1983. The feature, called Rewrite, is rolling out in preview to Windows Insiders and will let you use AI to “rephrase sentences, adjust tone, and modify the length of your content,” according to the Windows Insider Blog.

In what could be a trial run for the US. and European markets, Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is now included in M365 Personal and Family subscriptions in several countries, including Australia, Malaysia and New Zealand. Microsoft is bundling its ...

It's great to see Microsoft continue to use AI to empower its classic range of apps, adding some impressive functionality to the Windows platform out of the box. Tools like Generative fill and erase are impressively useful, which makes their inclusion in bundled software like Paint all the more impressive.

Microsoft’s Copilot Pro software used to be an add-on subscription for Microsoft 365 subscribers, but apparently that didn’t go over well.

Microsoft is getting a new feature called “Themes by Copilot,” which adds the ability to use dynamic AI-driven themes in Microsoft Outlook. You’ll need a Copilot Pro subscription to start using it, and it’s just one of the many ways AI can benefit ...

Microsoft continued to ramp up its capital spending on AI, raising fresh questions about how long it can continue to pour huge sums into the tech.

Microsoft President Brad Smith is set to unveil an artificial intelligence-enhanced project focusing on St. Peter’s Basilica during a press conference at the Vatican on Nov. 11.

Artificial intelligence companies that have previously been reticent to allow military use of their technology are shifting policies and striking deals to offer it to spy agencies and the Pentagon. On Thursday, Anthropic, a leading AI start-up that has ...