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The CWA and CWA Canada filed unfair labor practice charges against Microsoft on July 15, accusing it of bad-faith bargaining and unlawful firings over the Xbox layoffs, as Bethesda and ZeniMax workers rallied.

Lightstorm, Microsoft, Singtel, and Tata Communications will build the 3,600 km I-2SEA submarine cable linking India's AI data centers to Singapore and Malaysia by Q4 2029.

Microsoft shipped TypeScript 7.0 as generally available on July 8, 2026, moving the compiler and language service to a native Go port that Microsoft says is typically 8x to 12x faster on full builds.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed about 3,200 role cuts through FY27, roughly 1,600 immediately. Double Fine and Compulsion exit as independent studios with their IP, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs head to new owners.

Microsoft and Chevron unveiled Project Kilby, a co-located 2.67-gigawatt natural gas plant in West Texas that will supply a Microsoft AI and cloud data center under a 20-year power agreement.

A deserialization flaw in on-premises SharePoint, patched in May, is now confirmed under active exploitation, with a July 4 federal deadline.

The European Commission's preliminary view targets Amazon's and Microsoft's cloud arms, the first DMA designation made without meeting the law's quantitative thresholds.

Law enforcement seized 326 servers and froze 47 million dollars in crypto, while Microsoft filed RICO claims against five defendants after AI tools tied the two malware suites to shared infrastructure.

Reports say Microsoft is closing Hellblade studio Ninja Theory and put Double Fine and Compulsion in exit talks, days after a public Xbox 'reset' memo.

The June 9 .NET 11 Preview 5 brings a closed class modifier for exhaustive switch checking and with(...) collection expression arguments, alongside the first runtime scaffolding for C# union types.

Announced at Build 2026, Coreutils for Windows packages a Rust uutils build of coreutils, findutils, and grep as a single native binary installable via WinGet, though the GitHub repo still labels it a preview.

June 2026's update tops the previous record of 177 CVEs and includes CVE-2026-45657, a wormable 9.8 kernel use-after-free.