Linux on Windows 10 gets major computing boost
Running Linux on Windows 10 is about to get a whole lot easier as Microsoft is making a number of improvements to its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) including GUI…
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Microsoft debuts Windows Package Manager for your dev environment
It’s finally happening. Microsoft is giving developers a command line interface to install their favorite tools. That’s right — at Build 2020 today, Microsoft announced Windows Package Manager in preview….
Linux not Windows: Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source – again
In a notable U-turn for the city, newly elected politicians in Munich have decided that its administration needs to use open-source software, instead of proprietary products like Microsoft Office.
Microsoft Issues Windows 10 ‘Critical’ Update Warning
Picked up by the always-excellent BleepingComputer, Microsoft’s May 2020 Patch Tuesday has landed and it’s a monster with fixes for 111 vulnerabilities. Moreover, Microsoft has classified 91 of these as…
Huawei denies involvement in buggy Linux kernel patch proposal
Huawei denied on Monday having any official involvement in an insecure patch submitted to the Linux kernel project over the weekend; patch that introduced a “trivially exploitable” vulnerability. The buggy…
Windows 10 Is Bleeding Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys An Astonishing Increase
Microsoft’s Windows 10 actually experienced a rare drop in market share (down to 56.08 percent in April from its March 2020 share of 57.34 percent). Meanwhile, popular Linux distribution Ubuntu…
Nervous, Adobe? It took 16 years, but open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape now works properly on macOS
Open-source, cross-platform vector drawing package Inkscape has reached its version 1.0 milestone after many years of development. Inkscape can be seen as an alternative to commercial products such as Adobe…
Lenovo is joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” club
It looks like Lenovo may upstage Dell as the big name in OEM Linux laptops—not counting specialty retailers like System76, of course. Red Hat and Lenovo are announcing pre-installed and…
Office 365 is now Microsoft 365: What you need to know
From the customer’s perspective, there is no separation between Windows 10, Office 365, and Azure—it is all just one platform, the Microsoft 365 platform. We’ll have to wait and see…
Windows 10 update could DELETE your files and bricks PCs in fresh blow to Microsoft users
WINDOWS 10 users have been dealt yet another download blow, with a new Microsoft update capable of deleting user files and bricking your PC.
Your Whole Company’s Microsoft Teams Data Could’ve Been Stolen With An ‘Evil GIF’
Tech giants are fighting to become the de facto videoconferencing tool for remote workers in the time of COVID-19. Zoom rose to the top fast, but thanks to various security…
Microsoft wants to ‘read people’s brain waves’ to mine cryptocurrency
Microsoft has proposed a method to generate cryptocurrency by monitoring people’s brain activity and other personal biometric data. A new patent titled “Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data” describes how…
Microsoft Issues Out-Of-Band Security Update For Office, Paint 3D
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update for Microsoft Office, Office 365 ProPlus and Paint 3D. The applications are affected by multiple Autodesk vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could enable remote…
April 2020 and – rest assured – your Windows PC can still be pwned by something so innocuous as an unruly font
Microsoft has delivered another epic Patch Tuesday, dropping fixes for more than 100 security bugs, and Adobe and Intel have added their dose of misery and security too.
Windows 10 Warning: Anger At Microsoft Rises With Serious New Failure
The always-excellent Windows Latest reveals that Microsoft’s new KB4541335 update is “wrecking PCs”. The site notes complaints are growing on Microsoft’s forums, Feedback Hub and even its own comments section….