10+ Best Articles on Microsoft
The most useful articles on microsoft from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Microsoft Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on microsoft by Refind users in 2026 so far.
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How to lose a monopoly: Microsoft, IBM and anti-trust
A big rich company, a company that dominates the market for its product, and a company that dominates the broader tech industry are three quite different things. Market cap isn’t power. IBM ruled…
Short Articles
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How to turn off AI in Windows and bring yourself some peace
You don't have to accept what Microsoft gives you.
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates review
In contrast to the current crop of swaggering tech bros, the Microsoft founder comes across as wry and self-deprecating in this memoir of starting out
Microsoft’s star AI chief peers into OpenAI’s code, highlighting an unusual rivalry
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman’s presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with its AI partner, but he is an asset if the software giant decides to go it alone.
Microsoft looking at OpenAI’s GPT for Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
Microsoft also working on ChatGPT-like features for Bing.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on microsoft.
5 Things I Learned About Leadership from the Death & Rebirth of Microsoft
In 2007 Paul Graham, the founder of Y-Combinator, penned an essay titled Microsoft is Dead. The thesis of the article was that Microsoft…
The maze is in the mouse
What ails Google. And how it can turn things around.
Microsoft’s gaming chief on Xbox games coming to PS5, next-gen hardware, and more
Microsoft wants to grow Xbox in new ways.
PlayStation cloud streaming vs Microsoft xCloud: image quality, performance and latency tested
Cloud game streaming doesn't always offer the best in terms of image quality and latency, but how does the PS Plus Clou…
"I am Bing, and I am evil"
Microsoft's new AI really does herald a global threat
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