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Microsoft Defender (which used to be known as Windows Defender), is the built-in antivirus tool in Windows 10, and Microsoft has just made it more difficult to disable. While the…

Microsoft has finally killed Internet Explorer The browser will be finished on 17 August, 2021, the company said. In a blog post, Microsoft explained that the Microsoft Teams web app…

The new Edge is a very good browser. It’s like Chrome –only better. But Microsoft has managed to annoy Windows 10 users by making Edge very difficult to ignore.  The…

Google Project Zero (GPZ) is refusing to give Microsoft further extensions on disclosing a Windows 10 authentication bug because it says a patch Microsoft delivered in the August 2020 Patch…

Microsoft has started rolling out today the August 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates. This month, the company has patched 120 vulnerabilities across 13 different products, from Edge to Windows, and…

Microsoft’s new Edge browser started randomly crashing when users typed into the address bar tonight. The issues appear to have affected Edge users who have selected Google as the default…

Using Microsoft Teams is about to get a whole lot more personal after the collaboration app revealed a new expansion aimed at life outside the office.  The new version of…

Slack—the now-nearly ubiquitous, purple work-chatting platform—has filed a formal complaint alleging that tech titan Microsoft is unlawfully abusing its power to squeeze newer rivals out of the market—almost the exact…

When Microsoft introduced the Surface Duo late last year, it confirmed that it would be using Android as the operating system for the dual-screened device. As the official launch date…

Microsoft just can’t catch a break with all its updates that seem to cause more problems. The company rolled out a Windows 10 update yesterday which fixed a major DNS…

Microsoft Outlook is immediately crashing worldwide when users start the application, with 0xc0000005 errors displayed in the Windows Event Viewer. These crashes started occurring over the last hour, and reports…

As part of its Patch Tuesday batch of software updates, Microsoft today released a fix for a bug discovered by Israeli security firm Check Point, which the company’s researchers have…

The monthly security updates for Microsoft products — also known as Patch Tuesday — are out for the month of July 2020. This month, Redmond fixed 123 security flaws across…

Android users have discovered that Outlook slips a “Bing search” option into the long-press menu you see when you select text. Tap it and it will open your default browser…

If I told you that my entire computer screen just got taken over by a new app that I’d never installed or asked for — it just magically appeared on…