It might not get the same kind of attention as Google and Apple, but Microsoft is still one of the biggest and most powerful tech companies operating today. It runs Azure, one of the biggest cloud computing services, and maintains Windows 11 and the whole Office suite of software. It also makes plenty of Surface hardware and has a whole slew of gaming products, including the Xbox Series X. But the company is ever expanding — building new hardware, acquiring new game studios, and making sure that even if Microsoft doesn't run your phone, it can touch plenty of the apps on it. 

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Here's a close-up look at the Razer Blade, a sexy, slim, 17-inch gaming laptop.

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Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on

The new Microsoft Teams is here with big performance improvements and UI changes

Amazon starts flagging ‘frequently returned’ products that you maybe shouldn’t buy

The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet

The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality

More from Microsoft

The best Xbox controller to buy right now

You can play with Microsoft’s Bing GPT-4 chatbot right now, no waitlist necessary

Microsoft is bringing Minecraft to Chromebooks