Pens And Paper Are Holding Your Kids Back, Says Microsoft
Lia De Cicco Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft Canada, believes pencils, paper, and chalkboards are all outdated methods of teaching. If De Cicco Remu has her…
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HP has another go at low-cost Linux laptops
HP is having another go at selling Linux-based laptops with a new line of low-cost notebooks based on Ubuntu Linux, which it will sell in the UK via online retail…
Tech More: Microsoft Office Office 365 Microsoft’s new love of subscriptions could bring in up to 80% more revenue per customer
There’s one very good reason that Microsoft is so keen to get customers on board with its Microsoft Office 365 subscription service. Companies that go with Office 365 are more…
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes 46 flaws in Windows, IE, Office, and more
Fourteen critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer were among the targets of Microsoft’s monthly batch of security patches released Tuesday. In all, it fixed 46 vulnerabilities across products including Windows, Internet…
Microsoft Looks to Software Subscriptions as Mobile Computing Spreads
Microsoft hopes free upgrades of Windows 10 will attract customers and lead to subscriptions with recurring revenue.
Ubuntu jumps into Internet of Things with Acer, GE, and Microsoft
Old enemies are becoming new allies as technology shifts from the PC/desktop model to first mobile computing and now the Internet of Things (IoT). Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is…
Microsoft points PowerShell at Penguinistas
In yet another sign that Microsoft is a very different animal these days, the company has released PowerShell DSC (desired state configuration) for Linux. PowerShell DSC is a server configuration…
Microsoft’s secret weapon in browser wars: Mozilla’s supercharged Asm.js
Microsoft has included a surprise feature in its new Edge web browser for Windows 10, in the form of support for the ultra-optimizable Asm.js JavaScript dialect. First developed by Mozilla…
Even Uncle Sam admits: US patent law is whack
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling on the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to overhaul its rules on licensing intellectual property.
Good luck displacing Windows 7, Microsoft, it’s still growing
Windows 7’s dominance of the desktop shows why Microsoft will make users of the OS its first migration target for Windows 10 upgrades. But with Windows 7 still growing, will…
Microsoft now has a code editor for Mac and Linux: Visual Studio Code
Today at Build, Microsoft unveiled its first version of Visual Studio for Mac and Linux. The new tool, called Visual Studio Code, makes it easy to develop .NET code along…
Microsoft profits decimated because you’re still not buying PCs
Microsoft weathered a punishing third quarter of its fiscal 2015, and despite some signs of growth in the cloud, its sales were dragged down by dwindling demand from consumers.
Microsoft attacks Chromebooks with new, cheaper Surface 3 for schools
Microsoft developed the $499 Surface 3 in part as a low-cost alternative to the Surface Pro 3. But Microsoft plans to introduce an even cheaper model, which schools will be…
VMware fires Photon torpedo – a homegrown Linux for microservices
VMware has created its very own Linux distribution, dubbed ‘Project Photon’, as part of an effort to create a stack for what it’s calling “Cloud-Native applications”.
Microsoft Just Took Android’s Future Out of Google’s Hands
With the announcement that Microsoft would partner with the truly open-source, Android-based Cyanogen OS to provide a bundled suite of apps, both companies made one thing very clear: Android’s not…