Best of Microsoft — April 2026

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   XDA Developers·8w

   LibreOffice proved that paying for Microsoft 365 was my biggest mistake

   A freelancer shares their experience switching from Microsoft 365 to LibreOffice, finding it more capable than expected. Key highlights include responsive UI with consistent toolbars, solid .docx/.xlsx compatibility, powerful features like advanced styles, templates, and macro support, plus offline-first privacy benefits. The conclusion is that LibreOffice is a fully capable productivity suite that saves money without sacrificing workflow quality.

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   Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1812 (Canary Channel)

   Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1812 to the Canary Channel. Key changes include a new touchpad setting to customize the right-click zone size (default, small, medium, or large), refinements to the drag tray sharing feature with a smaller peek view to reduce accidental invocations, and enhancements to the Windows Security app's Secure Boot section with color-coded status badges and certificate status visibility. The Feedback Hub has also been updated to version 2.2604.101.0 with design improvements including better default window sizing, session-persistent window size, mouse back button navigation, and fixes for community feedback display and upvote buttons for Chinese language users.

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   Where's Your Ed At·5w

   Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits

   Leaked internal documents reveal Microsoft plans to pause new signups for GitHub Copilot individual and student tiers, transition users from request-based to token-based billing, and reduce rate limits across Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans. The weekly cost of running GitHub Copilot has nearly doubled since January, forcing Microsoft to end subsidized pricing. Anthropic's Opus models will be removed from the cheaper Pro tier, and Opus 4.6/4.5 will be phased out of Pro+ as the platform moves to Opus 4.7 — which carries a 7.5x request multiplier, effectively making it 250% more expensive than the previous Opus 4.6. These changes mirror similar moves by Anthropic and other AI companies shifting enterprise users to usage-based billing amid rising compute costs.

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   China Doesn’t Want Our Money

   A tech news roundup covering China's directive for top tech companies to reject US investments without government approval, Meta laying off 8,000 employees (10% of workforce) while committing $135B to data centers, Microsoft offering voluntary buyouts to ~8,700 senior employees, Apple patching an iOS vulnerability that allowed the FBI to recover deleted Signal messages via push notification databases, Microsoft enabling IT admins to uninstall Copilot from enterprise devices, a ransomware negotiator pleading guilty to secretly aiding the Black Cat hacking group, and Sony's AI ping-pong robot becoming the first machine to beat a professional player under official tournament rules.

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