Welcome to Notepad, a e-newsletter on Microsoft’s technology-defining bets by Tom Warren

I’m infected to squawk Notepad, a brand new weekly e-newsletter I’ll be writing at The Verge. 

Notepad is an inner see at my notes on Microsoft, a company I’ve spent the past Two decades making an strive to manufacture sense of through my reporting, scoops, and analyses. This e-newsletter is designed to recount the secrets and plot unhurried Microsoft’s technology-defining bets on AI, gaming, and the procedure in which ahead for computing.

Whether it’s Dwelling windows, a brand new AI Copilot, the following Xbox, or each and each Michael at Microsoft being added to a mysterious electronic mail listing, Notepad is the place to get the very most modern on all things Microsoft. Request to read exclusives and analyses you won’t secure someplace else, interviews that meander deeper on Microsoft’s colossal bets, and a few gossip from at some level of the partitions of Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington.

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Over the past Two decades, I’ve broken hundreds of reviews on Microsoft. Just a few of my early main reporting included main facets on a Dwelling windows 2000 source code leak, hundreds of Hotmail yarn passwords that occupy been posted online, and regular scoops on Dwelling windows releases. I led the technology news place Neowin as editor-in-chief within the early 2000s, then went on to create WinRumors — my occupy blog all about Microsoft — in 2010.

I also spent larger than a decade working at a diversity of establishment funding banks, raise a true background in software and Dwelling windows engineering sooner than selling WinRumors to Vox Media and becoming a member of The Verge pudgy time in 2012.

Notepad will proceed my abilities in covering Microsoft, and I need it to feel like a at once connection to me and a prime helpful resource for you. I’ll be encouraging feedback on what you’d prefer to read more of and areas where I’m in a position to meander deeper in reporting about Microsoft.

Lastly, I wish to thank all of my colleagues who helped manufacture this e-newsletter doable, especially Thomas Ricker, Esther Cohen, Jake Kastrenakes, Kara Verlaney, Helen Havlak, Nilay Patel, Will Joel, Graham MacAree, and Cath Virginia.