Microsoft wants to make big changes to Windows 10’s default apps
Microsoft has committed to improving Windows 10’s default apps in a bid to bring the OS up to speed with more seamless desktop app ecosystems, like Apple’s macOS Big Sur….
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Visual Studio Code: How Microsoft’s ‘any OS, any programming language, any software’ plan is paying off
With 14 million users, Microsoft’s open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.
Report: Microsoft Soars with Teams, Struggles with Chromebooks in Education
A report describes a company-wide all-hands meeting at Microsoft in which executives touted the success of Teams in education while bemoaning the success of Chromebooks powered by Google’s Chrome OS.
Microsoft – the time of the cloud has come
Microsoft reported second quarter revenues of $43.1bn, up 17% on last year, while profits after tax rose 33% to $15.5bn. Both numbers were substantially ahead of market expectations, driven by…
Azure cloud will pass Office to become Microsoft’s biggest business next year, says analyst
Microsoft’s Azure cloud for hosting web sites and applications will replace the Office productivity software as the company’s largest source of revenue at some point in 2022, Piper Sandler analyst…
Ethical-source movement opens new open-source organization
Founded by the ethical-source leader and creator of the Hippocratic License and Contributor Covenant Coraline Ada Ehmke, the OES is devoted to the idea that the free software and open-source…
You can now run Linux on Apple M1 devices
Developers from security startup Corellium have revealed they managed to get Linux running on Apple’s Arm-based M1 devices natively. “Linux is now completely usable on the Mac mini M1. Booting…
Microsoft says it now has over 200 million education users
In a recent blog post, Barbara Holzapfel, Microsoft VP for Education, said that more than 200 million students, faculty, institutional leaders and teachers are actively using Microsoft Education products. She…
AWS wants to tempt customers into switching to Linux
The open source Porting Assistant for .NET is designed to scan .NET apps and list the things that need to be fixed in order to port the app to Linux….
I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users and my head is spinning
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared, in an interview with the Financial Times, that Teams could soon be a digital platform as important as the internet…
Microsoft says now is the time for all firms to embrace open source
Microsoft has once again thrown its weight behind backing the use of open source software in the modern tech world. A one-time detractor, Microsoft hasn’t just embraced open source, but…
Want to run Windows apps on Linux? Wine just got this huge update
The open-source Windows-Linux compatibility layer project, Wine, has announced the stable release of Wine 6.0 and it’s even bigger than the previous stable release from mid-2020.
Partners Feel ‘Betrayed,’ ‘Taken Aback’ By Microsoft’s Direct Calls To Customers
A California MSP learned a lesson years ago when a software vendor tried to go direct with his end users. So when Microsoft demanded contact information for his customers, he…
Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file’s icon
An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command. In multiple tests by BleepingComputer, this one-liner can be delivered hidden…
Windows 10 toolbar: Here’s how Microsoft is adding news, weather and traffic
Microsoft has released a new preview of a future Windows 10 taskbar that shows how it plans to display news and weather in the task bar.