Microsoft is dropping Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 a month, but future Call of Duty games will no longer be available at launch. It's the first significant move by new gaming CEO Asha Sharma.

Microsoft says Copilot now uses agent mode by default across Word, Excel and PowerPoint, enabling task execution, deeper context understanding, improved workflows, and higher engagement across productivity applications for users.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella publicly congratulated Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus and praised outgoing CEO Tim Cook following Apple's leadership announcement on April 20, 2026. Cook, who transformed Apple into a $4 trillion company during his nearly 15-year tenure,

Microsoft's multi-data center AI cluster, Fairwater, is going live ahead of schedule. The company's CEO, Satya Nadella, shared a progress update via X on April 16, which said that the "Fairwater data center in Wisconsin is going live, ahead of schedule."