Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 review: Windows 10 as it is meant to be

Premium PC with new choice of faster chips, eight-hour battery, great keyboard and face recognition

E3 2021: all the news from Microsoft and Bethesda’s Xbox showcase

From Halo Infinite to the long anticipated role-playing adventure Starfield, Microsoft is promising a big show for this year’s digital only E3 conference

Global G7 deal may let Amazon off hook on tax, say experts

Exclusive: communique from ministers suggests deal only applies to ‘profit exceeding a 10% margin’, which could rule out Amazon

Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’

The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms

Microsoft blocks Bing from showing image results for Tiananmen ‘tank man’

Company blames ‘human error’ after users in US, Germany, Singapore and France reported no results shown on the crackdown’s anniversary

Microsoft’s Irish subsidiary posted £220bn profit in single year

Microsoft Round Island One has no employees except directors

Microsoft wrote off a laptop because it can’t repair the webcam

Its repair policy seems to fly in the face of Bill Gates’s work to combat climate change

‘Silicon Six’ tech giants accused of inflating tax payments by almost $100bn

Study claims firms paid $96bn less in tax between 2011 and 2020 than the notional figures cited in their annual reports

Russian SolarWinds hackers launch email attack on government agencies

Microsoft says group targeted more than 15o American and foreign organisations using USAid account

Can virtual meeting spaces save us all from Zoom fatigue?

Few of us will be back in the office full time – but does that have to mean endless video calls? Meet the weird and wonderful newcomers hoping to take a piece of the action

Microsoft launches faster new Surface Laptop 4

Notebooks offer choice of Intel and AMD chips for first time, plus better webcams and mics for video calls

Web giants must stop cashing in on pension scam misery, say MPs

Law must address profits made by companies from fraudsters’ advertisements

Global shortage in computer chips ‘reaches crisis point’

Consumer price rises loom while dearth of semiconductors slow production from Samsung to Ford

Microsoft hack: Biden launches emergency taskforce to address cyber-attack

The ‘unusually aggressive’ attack allowed hackers to access email accounts of at least 30,000 organizations in the US

SolarWinds hack was work of ‘at least 1,000 engineers’, tech executives tell Senate

True scope of the breach, which affected 100 companies and several federal agencies, is still unknown