Is Microsoft Excel the Next Big E-Sport?
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"Inner Excellence" author on Eagles player going viral for reading his book on sidelines
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The crazy ride in quantum computing stocks continues as shares rip higher on Microsoft's 'quantum-ready' directive
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Microsoft Is Ending Support for Windows 10 Office Apps in October
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The Disaster That Changed the Life of Baseball’s Next Big Star
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Maria review – Angelina Jolie excels as tragic Callas
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Microsoft confirms performance-based job cuts across departments
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Microsoft’s new rStar-Math technique upgrades small models to outperform OpenAI’s o1-preview at math problems
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Microsoft contributes $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
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Google and Microsoft donate $1m each to Trump’s inaugural fund
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Microsoft confirms performance-based job cuts across departments
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Microsoft makes powerful Phi-4 model fully open-source on Hugging Face
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Microsoft Wants To Bring "The Best Of Xbox And Windows" To Handheld PCs
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The Next Congress
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Microsoft Says It's Time to Replace Your Old Windows 10 PC
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Microsoft Plans to Invest $3 Billion on AI, Cloud Infrastructure in India
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Microsoft Says AI Will Lead To Job Losses, Invests $80 Billion In The Tech
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Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025
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Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers over next 12 months
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