Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apparently has a voracious appetite for Israeli cybersecurity firms. The tech giant acquired Aorato, an Israeli application firewall startup, for a reported $200 million in November…
Microsoft today doesn’t care what OS you use just so long as you are using it on Microsoft’s cloud, Azure. Either way is money in Microsoft’s pocket. And one-quarter of…
Linux clusters built from Facebook’s blueprints will help crunch numbers for the US government’s hydrogen bomb scientists. The computer system, dubbed the Tundra Extreme Scale series, will cost $39m, and…
Microsoft has a new trick to convince Windows 10 users to stick with its new Edge browser over Chrome or Firefox. In a newly leaked Windows 10 preview (build 10568),…
Have you noticed Microsoft being a little too eager in pushing its Windows 10 upgrade lately? You’re not alone. Some of our readers tell us the updates have gone so…
We’ve all become used to the idea of ads online — it’s something that has become part and parcel of using the internet — but in Windows? If you’ve updated…
Microsoft has launched a promotion called Easy Trade Up designed to get people to switch to new Windows 10 machines. If you buy a qualifying computer from the Microsoft Store…
For Redmond, the October update brings fixes for 33 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities. The updates include a cumulative fix for Internet Explorer and patches to address critical flaws in Windows VBScript/Jscript…
Redmond on Tuesday sent out a reminder to companies that its 2005 database server edition will officially be considered out of support on April 12, 2016. This means SQL Server…
Synack senior security researcher Wesley Wineberg has received US$25,000 from Microsoft for quietly disclosing a bug that allows any Hotmail account to be hijacked.
Microsoft tried to move users from its infamous Internet Explorer browser to a minimalist new web browser dubbed Edge following the launch of Windows 10. But new data has revealed…
One reason why Linux weathered patent attacks and trolls to become today’s dominant server and cloud operating system is because the Open Invention Network united its supporters into a strong…
While the concept of DRM is nothing new, it’s the age of the practice that might lead to some older games becoming unplayable — thanks to a new update Microsoft…
Late last week, hell had apparently frozen over with the news that Microsoft had developed a Linux distribution of its own. The work was done as part of the company’s…
Today marks a huge milestone for Steam on Linux: 1,500 games are natively available! This is quite significant while Windows is at 6,464 and OS X is at 2,323.