Microsoft wins cloud business from Albertsons as fear of Amazon grows among retailers
Microsoft’s cloud business is taking full advantage of the growing fear of Amazon, announcing on Thursday its latest deal with a big retailer.
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Office 365 enjoys good old-fashioned Thursday wobble as email drops over in Europe
Office 365 is enjoying a Thursday wobble this morning, at least as far as users in the UK and much of Europe are concerned. Users began noticing that something was…
Microsoft Adds PostgreSQL Scalability Solution with Citus Data Purchase
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it bought San Francisco-based Citus Data, a provider of an extension that scales out the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system in datacenters.
Microsoft Wallet for Windows Phone to be retired in February
Support is set to end for all Windows 10 Mobile devices by the end of this year, and Microsoft is already beginning to retire apps in anticipation. In an update…
How open-source software took over the world
It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. The common thesis was…
Microsoft sends a raft of Windows 10 patches out into the Windows Update ocean
Microsoft has released a second raft of fixes for Windows 10 following the monthly Patch Tuesday excitement last week. It has also issued some fixes for its latest Windows Insider…
Windows 7 enters its final year of free support
Windows 7’s five years of extended support will expire on January 14, 2020—exactly one year from today. After this date, security fixes will no longer be freely available for the…
It WASN’T the update, says Microsoft: Windows 7 suffers identity crisis as users hit by activation errors
Microsoft has said that activation errors seen by Windows 7 users should not be chalked up to Tuesday’s patch, but rather were an entirely different cockup. A tweak to the…
Software patents poised to make a comeback under new patent office rules
This week the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) proposed new rules that would make it easier to patent software. If those rules take effect, it could take us back…
Just updated Windows 7? Can’t access network shares? It isn’t just you
Microsoft has doubled down on efforts to persuade users to migrate to Windows 10 by breaking Windows 7 networking for some. Windows Server 2008 R2 is also affected.
Microsoft: Windows 10 to grab 7GB of your storage so big updates don’t fail
In the next major release of Windows 10, Microsoft will reserve 7GB of your device’s storage to resolve a Windows 10 bug thrown up by Windows Update not checking whether…
Microsoft pulls Office 2010 updates because they’re big in Japan. As in, big pain in the ASCII
Microsoft has taken down its latest update for Office 2010 following reports the tweak was causing some versions of Excel to crash.
It’s a Linux-powered car world
Linux is everywhere including your car. While some companies, like Tesla, run their own homebrew Linux distros, most rely on Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). AGL is a collaborative cross-industry effort…
Insiders! The good news: Windows 10 Sandbox is here for testing. Bad news: Microsoft has already broken it
No, Windows Insiders, that isn’t your New Year’s hangover kicking in. After unveiling Windows Sandbox to much fanfare, Microsoft promptly broke it with a cheeky cumulative update.
First-Ever UEFI Rootkit Tied to Sednit APT
Researchers hunting cyber-espionage group Sednit (an APT also known as Sofacy, Fancy Bear and APT28) say they have discovered the first-ever instance of a rootkit targeting the Windows Unified Extensible…