Picked up by Gizmodo, acclaimed Californian security company SafeBreach has revealed that software pre-installed on PCs has left “millions” of users exposed to hackers. Moreover, that estimate is conservative with…
Google is planning to reimplement parts of libcurl, a widely used open-source file transfer library, as a wrapper for Chromium’s networking API – but curl’s lead developer does not welcome…
Windows 10 has received a second set of (optional) cumulative updates for June, comprising of a raft of minor tweaks and fixes for both the April 2018 Update and October…
The surprising aspect to all this is the effort Microsoft is making to promote Linux application development to its developers on Windows. The reason for this change of heart is…
Amazon Web Services has dominated the growing cloud computing business, but a new partnership between industry rivals aims to unseat it. Microsoft and Oracle, formerly competitors in the cloud business,…
The biggest tease the company dropped was its apparent willingness to release an Edge version for Linux — a move that was once considered inconceivable. “We don’t have any technical…
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, and also known as home of the Large Hadron Collider, has announced plans to migrate away from Microsoft products and…
Microsoft has published today its monthly roll-up of security updates, known as Patch Tuesday. This month, the OS maker has patched 88 vulnerabilities, among which 21 received a rating of…
Game designer Jason Rohrer has had a bad week, discovering that his 23 code repositories representing 15 years of development and community contributions were wiped from GitHub.
While Microsoft may be shoehorning the Linux kernel into Windows 10, veteran Linux flinger Zorin has applied some buffing to its Windows-like distro with a version 15 release.
Microsoft has quietly swung the axe on a chunk of its retail operation, with “speciality stores” in America bearing the brunt of the blade. All 17 of Microsoft’s kiosk-sized stores…
Microsoft’s don’t-mention-the-G-word search engine, Bing, has just the candles blown out on its 10th birthday cake. Sadly, according to NetMarketShare, at the time of writing, that “10” might just as…
Microsoft is getting in front of an all-new trend — gaming-oriented personal care products — by partnering with the brand behind Axe body spray to produce new Xbox-branded body wash,…
Microsoft is relying on GitHub and experts in rival programming tools to win back developers. Five years ago, the company was far more insular. When Nadella took over as CEO…
With Microsoft cutting off support for Windows 7, the Linux desktop may finally get its day in the sun. But are Linux companies ready to take advantage of their opportunity?