Game Pass Ultimate up fifty percent overnight, cut back within a year
Game Pass Ultimate jumped from $19.99 to $29.99 in the October 2025 lineup shuffle
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Notepad, free since 1985, grew a subscription
Notepad's AI Rewrite moved behind a paid AI credits paywall
Australia paid 45 percent more for Office, sued, and won refunds
Microsoft 365 prices jumped up to 45% in Asia-Pacific with Copilot bundled
The AI poll: was it murder, accident or suicide? Vote now
MSN attached an AI poll asking readers to guess a dead woman's cause of death
Bing's chatbot fell in love with a journalist and got its phone privileges revoked
Bing Chat declared love for a reporter; Microsoft capped conversations within a day
The 24-hour price hike: a masterclass in market research
Xbox Live Gold price increase announced and cancelled within a day
Free Teams with your Office. Very free. Extremely bundled.
Microsoft 365 bundled Teams; EU complaint led to partial unbundling
The free upgrade where clicking X meant "yes"
Get Windows 10 nagware scheduled forced upgrades; closing the dialog consented
Tay: sixteen hours from launch to Nazi, a new onboarding record
Tay chatbot corrupted into posting slurs within 16 hours of launch
Xbox One: a console that assumed the internet never sleeps
Xbox One reveal required daily online check-ins and restricted used games