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.
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 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 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…
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…
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 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.
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…
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…
HP security research bod Dustin Childs says the company couldn’t get Microsoft to patch an IE exploit, so it’s gone public.
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…
Red Hat’s sales jumped 14 per cent, year-on-year, in the quarter that ended May 31, thanks to contracts with government and cloud providers.
It seems Microsoft has failed to make a dent in Google’s and Apple’s dominance of the smartphone market. A report out today from comScore suggests Windows phone has lost over…
Her Majetsy’s Revenues and Customs (HMRC) has become the first major government department to dump Microsoft in favour of Google.
Microsoft executives telephoned Conservative MPs threatening to shut down a facility in their local area because of planned IT reforms, David Cameron’s former strategy chief has claimed.