Microsoft is investigating several issues causing email synchronization and connection problems when using the classic Outlook desktop client.

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.

A blind spot in Microsoft’s app and add-in marketplace security allowed an eagle-eyed hacker to hijack an abandoned Outlook add-in to carry out phishing attacks that compromised 4,000 users, ...

Superconducting cables could make for more compact data centers. Superconducting cables could make for more compact data centers. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment ...

KENT COUNTY — The Lowell Township Board did not intend to discuss the controversial $1 billion Microsoft data center project on Monday, but hundreds of residents wouldn’t stay silent on the subject.

The village board in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, unanimously approved Microsoft's site plans for 15 more data centers near an existing facility. Jobs at the project could last 10 years, said Mount ...

Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to execution. Across industries, AI models, copilots, and autonomous agents are now embedded in everyday business operations, shaping decisions, ...

Microsoft has committed to “paying its way” to ensure its data centers will not ramp up residential utility rates, becoming the first major hyperscaler to publicly commit to a comprehensive framework ...