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?
Application makers are crying foul after some of their programs distributed via the Windows Store popped open tech-support scam ads on users’ desktops. It appears, therefore, that miscreants were, and…
Comes the word that Saleforce.com has announced a ban on its customers selling “military-style rifles”. The reason this ban has teeth is that the company provides “software as a service”;…
Microsoft in recent years outsourced chunks of its advertising business and stuck Bing in spots that Microsoft controls or that Google couldn’t grab. Importantly, Microsoft made Bing front and center…
Russian authorities have moved closer to implementing their plan of replacing the Windows OS on military systems with a locally-developed operating system named Astra Linux.
Microsoft had a dream with Windows 8 that involved universal Windows apps that would span across phones, tablets, PCs, and even Xbox consoles. The plan was that app developers could…
At the start of May Dell announced an Ubuntu Linux option for their entry-level ~$700 Precision laptop while now they are closing out May by offering up Ubuntu 18.04 LTS…
The critical Windows Remote Desktop flaw that emerged this month may have set the stage for the worst malware attack in years. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2019-0708 and dubbed BlueKeep, can…