Microsoft Tries to Give Away Its Operating System
Microsoft, which left Razorfish behind in April 2014 to side with IPG and Dentsu for creative and media planning, released a new campaign for its Windows 10 OS yesterday. The…
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Microsoft to pay $320 million for cloud security provider Adallom
Reports have emerged stating that Microsoft is to drop $320 million in cash for Israeli cloud security startup Adallom. Adallom – founded in 2012 with just 80 employees – provides…
Don’t sit down! Patch ALL Windows AGAIN! Microsoft fixes THIRD Hacking Team hole
All supported versions of Windows now need to be patched – again – to fix an urgent remote code-execution vulnerability emerging from the ongoing Hacking Team hack fiasco.
Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 published as International Standard 26300:2015 by ISO/IEC
The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) Version 1.2, the native file format of LibreOffice and many other applications, has been published as International Standard 26300:2015 by ISO/IEC. ODF…
Microsoft kills TWO Hacking Team vulns – and they’re NOT the worst in this Patch Tues
Microsoft has released fixes for 59 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its software – including a patch for the elevation-of-privilege flaw in Windows exploited by spyware maker Hacking Team.
Microsoft kills A-V updates for XP, exposes 180 MEEELLION luddites
Windows XP holdouts are even more danger than ever after Microsoft abandoned anti-malware support for the ancient platform. Redmond overnight stopped providing XP support for new and existing installs of…
Microsoft Ends Windows Server 2003 Support But What Now?
Microsoft has officially pulled the plug on extended support for Windows Server 2003 (WS2003), leaving businesses with a choice of upgrading or remaining exposed to a number of risks –…
Lenovo To Ship Laptops With Ubuntu In India, Starting At 48,000 INR
Lenovo is preparing to ship laptops preloaded with Ubuntu in India. The first of these systems will be the Lenovo Thinkpad L450, featuring only one of two CPUs, but the…
French Government IT directorate stands its ground : ODF supported, OOXML rejected
The final draft version of the RGI (general interoperability framework), still awaiting final validation, maintains ODF as the recommended format for office documents within French administrations. This new version of…
A $7.6B Write-Off Is Never A Good Sign Microsoft
Microsoft announced today it was going to shut down the Nokia phone unit, take a $7.6B write-off (more than the $7.2B they paid for it,) and lay off another 7,800…
Microsoft: Stop using Microsoft Silverlight. (Everyone else has)
Microsoft is encouraging companies that use its Silverlight media format on their web pages to dump the tech in favor of newer, HTML5-based media playback systems.
Red Hat rolls elastic Linux under SAP’s HANA
Having put SAP’s HANA in-memory database on its Linux, Red Hat has gone off-premise with Amazon. The Linux shop has announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA is now…
Linux bids for UAV world domination by enslaving future skybot army
The Dronecode open-source UAV platform initiative has announced that it has welcomed on board a raft of new members, who’ll help drive the project towards becoming a de facto standard…
Redmond: IE Win 8.1 defence destroying hack ain’t worth patch, natch
HP security research bod Dustin Childs says the company couldn’t get Microsoft to patch an IE exploit, so it’s gone public.
Dell is back in bed with Linux
Every time Dell teases the Linux community with a new Linux-powered desktop, the relationship lasts for a few months, and then it’s over. Dell is at it again. However, this…