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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer candidly admits the company lost the console wars to competitors
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer seems a bit down-trodden when talking about the performance of Xbox.
Speaking with Kinda Funny Games, Spencer said that while the company isn’t in the business of “out-consoling Sony or out-consoling Nintendo,” there isn’t really a solution or win for the company.
Because of this, and languishing in third place, Microsoft decided instead of fighting a console war, it would instead focus on the cloud and subscription services like Game Pass with its new generation of consoles.
Brave severs ties with Microsoft’s Bing for web search queries
Brave, the company that develops its own privacy-focused web browser and search engine, announced that it will no longer use Microsoft’s Bing search as a source for its web searches.
“Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index,” reads a Thursday post on Brave’s company blog. “We’ve removed all search API calls to Bing.” The news comes a couple of months after Microsoft introduced some enormous price hikes for third parties using its search API. Brave’s blog post calls the price increase “unprecedented.”
Brave claims that its Brave Search engine was only leveraging Bing for about 7 percent of query results. It also noted that, at Brave Search’s inception in 2021, it only used third parties for about 13…
Microsoft’s plan to win over Bard users to Bing AI could backfire
“The UK Is Clearly Closed For Business”: Microsoft’s Billion Dollar Video Game Deal Blocked
Microsoft is currently the second largest company in the world according to current statistics published by Global Finance, but this…
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Microsoft’s Activision deal is on life support because cloud gaming still sucks
Will the UK’s decision be a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Microsoft’s Mice, Keyboards, and Webcams Are Being Discontinued in Favor of Surface Accessories
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