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Microsoft has rolled out a new customizable right-click context menu to Windows 11 Insider Beta channel testers. Users can add or remove commands, reorder items, and insert shortcuts for specific actions like opening files in Notepad or Photos, accessible via a new customize entry in File Explorer or through Settings.
Denmark's Energy Agency has abandoned its effort to switch from Microsoft Office to the open-source suite Collabora, reverting back to Microsoft's products. The agency had piloted the migration as part of a broader push by Danish authorities to reduce reliance on US-based software providers.
Microsoft has extended a voluntary exit offer to about 60,000 employees across the US, Canada, India and the UK, covering workers at experience level 70 or below. Executive vice president Amy Coleman announced the program on the company blog, describing it as building on an earlier voluntary retirement offer from April that was open to about 7% of US staff and saw over 30% uptake. Eligible employees are being notified by email with program details.
Cybersecurity firm Huntress published its 'Tragic Quadrant,' a ranked list of attack tactics most frequently hitting small and mid-sized businesses. The data shows remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool abuse accounted for 45% of endpoint incidents in Q1 2026, mailbox manipulation made up 24.6% of identity threat signals so far in 2026, and adversary-in-the-middle attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication represented 18.9% of identity-based threats tracked in 2025.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyout packages to roughly 60,000 employees, encouraging staff to leave the company rather than pursuing direct layoffs. The offer comes around the same time Skydance is separately seeking volunteers to depart its own workforce.
Microsoft has extended a voluntary exit offer to roughly 60,000 employees at level 70 and below in the US, Canada, India and the UK, according to sources cited by CNBC. The program expands on a smaller buyout round launched in April, which Microsoft called its first Voluntary Retirement Program in 51 years, and includes financial support and job-placement assistance. The eligible group represents about 27% of Microsoft's 228,000 global employees as of June 2025.
Microsoft is offering a voluntary exit package to roughly a quarter of its global workforce, covering eligible employees at level 70 or below in the US, India, Canada and the UK. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman said eligible organizations were chosen based on each business's priorities, customer commitments and workforce needs. This follows an earlier 2026 retirement offer to 8,750 US employees in April and July layoffs of 3,200 Xbox staff.
Microsoft's Chief People Officer Amy Coleman told staff the company is offering voluntary exit packages to roughly a quarter of its workforce, covering select employees at level 70 and below in the U.S., U.K., Canada and India. A company spokesperson said the terms mirror standard severance, including tenure-based pay, stock, health care and career services, and that eligibility was set by individual organization leaders, excluding groups like sales.
Microsoft confirmed Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to roughly a quarter of its workforce, around 60,000 employees at level 70 or below in the US, Canada, India and the UK, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by CNBC. The offer follows a fiscal 2026 in which Microsoft spent about $116 billion on property and equipment, mostly cloud and AI data-center capacity, up roughly $50 billion from the prior year, while operating income rose about $30 billion.
Microsoft has introduced a voluntary buyout program for workers in several of its large business divisions, giving them a limited window of a few weeks to decide whether to accept. The move is part of the company's broader effort to cut costs.
Microsoft announced a voluntary exit offer for eligible employees at experience level 70 or below in the U.S., Canada, India and the U.K., covering roughly 60,000 workers, or about 27% of its 223,000-person workforce. Employees must decide by December, with departures effective Dec. 31, and some marketing, sales and engineering teams reportedly opted out of participating.
PCWorld built a PC matching the Xbox Series X's specs and priced it at roughly $1,200 including Windows and a controller, or about $730 for core components alone. That's down sharply from the $1,559 PCWorld found necessary to match the console at its 2020 launch, when the gap versus the console's price was about $1,060.