Microsoft this week ended support for the very last Windows XP-based operating system, essentially marking the end of the platform and an era. Being one of the longest living consumer…
Microsoft has been working with a Chinese military-run university on artificial intelligence research that could be used for surveillance and censorship.
For Microsoft, the monthly flaw folder fixes for a total of 74 CVE-listed security bugs in Windows and Office. Of those, 33 are flaws which, if exploited, would allow the…
The European Union’s Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has announced an investigation into Microsoft products used by EU institutions. The move is at least partially in response to a report commissioned…
Microsoft is mulling the development of e-commerce tools for its cloud customers, according to a recent interview with Shelley Bransten, Microsoft’s VP of retail and consumer goods, at The Information….
Google, Microsoft and Apple are battling for dominance in classrooms. They all want their devices in the hands of the next generation of consumers. The U.S. education-tech market is expected…
Among a total of 64 CVEs, including 17 rated ‘critical’, is a second zero-day affecting all Windows versions identified as CVE-2019-0797, believed to have been deployed by middle-eastern APT groups.
Microsoft announced a slick new Skype for Web yesterday,integrating most of the features it had brought to the desktop over the past year. In what seems to be a puzzling…
Microsoft has officially become the first major cloud service provider to open data centers in Africa. The company announced on Wednesday that two of its Azure cloud data centers have…
Last week the Linux Foundation, which maintains the Linux operating system and other enterprise-focused open source projects, announced the launch of a new project to make sure Linux-based systems and…
Google security researcher finds secret whitelist that lets Facebook run Flash content despite Edge’s normal security policies.
The Microsoft Security Response Center published yesterday a security advisory about a denial of service (DOS) issue impacting IIS (Internet Information Services), Microsoft’s web server technology.
The Windows 10 April 2019 Update boasts many improvements, not least of which is Windows Subsystem for Linux’s new ability to let you access Linux files safely from Windows.
Microsoft’s collaborative Slack-alike, Teams, is having a difficult start to the week, with users unable to log in to share their hopes, dreams and Word documents with their co-workers.
Patch Tuesday Microsoft and Adobe have teamed up to give users and sysadmins plenty of work to do this week. The February edition of Patch Tuesday includes more than 70…