It’s that time of the month again, when Microsoft scrambles to plaster over the latest crop of vulnerabilities in Windows and Internet Explorer. The first Patch Tuesday of 2015 brings…
For the first time in a decade, Microsoft today did not give all customers advance warning of next week’s upcoming Patch Tuesday slate. Instead, the company suddenly announced it is…
More than five years after its release, Windows 7 is still the most popular PC operating system on the planet; according to Net Applications, it’s running on 56 percent of…
Microsoft’s much maligned “Scroogled” campaign is finally, completely dead, apparently. Winbeta spotted that the old Scroogled site (www.scroogled.com) now redirects to a higher-road “Why Microsoft” site. The vendor started pulling…
The Advance Notification Service (ANS) formerly made information on upcoming software patches available to the public but from now on the information will be restricted to “premier” customers and some…
A flaw discovered in Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM could allow remote hackers to trick a logged-in user into inserting malicious code within input fields on vulnerable websites.
It pays to stay in school, especially if you’re a public school student in Maryland. Microsoft announced today that families with kids in Maryland’s public schools will be able to…
Google has made public the details of a security vulnerability in Windows 8.1 a mere 90 days after disclosing it to Microsoft, sparking debate over the wisdom of the online…
Microsoft sites, including search engine Bing and MSN.com, were knocked briefly offline Friday after bad code was rolled out, according to a report.
Erle Robotics launched a ROS-enabled, open source “Erle-brain” autopilot that runs APM directly on Linux. The device also powers an “Erle-copter” drone.
Microsoft has revealed more information on its plans for Office on mobile devices: iOS, Android and Windows phones and tablets. Microsoft Office is going cross-platform “rather aggressively”, says Technical Product…
Ho hum. Another year, another slew of open source announcements that prove the once-maligned development methodology is now so mainstream as to be tedious. Running most of the world’s most…
Microsoft is terminating its SharePoint Online Public Website service, effective January 2015. SharePoint Online Public Website lets Office 365 users create a website and customise it with in-browser tools.
A requirement for Microsoft to offer new Windows users in Europe a choice of web browsers has ended after five years. Called the browser ballot, it gave non-Microsoft browsers as…
Microsoft shares fell after Bank of America downgraded its outlook for the world’s biggest software company, saying its outperforming share price this year is “cause for concern”.