SQL Server running on Linux, with embedded R and Python, is Microsoft’s most successful server product ever, said JG “John” Chirapurath, general manager of Azure Data, in an interview with…
Microsoft says it’s looking into reports that apps including “Hey Cortana” and Google Chrome hang or freeze for those who have installed the recent Windows 10 April 2018 Update.
Microsoft’s given users of its collaboration apps on Windows Phone under a month’s warning of their demise. A support note from late last week advises that “Windows phone apps for…
Windows 10 Springwatch participants got a treat last night in the form of a bumper update to Windows 10 1709 (aka the Fall Creators Update). The patch (KB4093105) landed a…
Microsoft has released the April edition of its monthly security update, this time addressing a total of 63 CVE-listed vulnerabilities. This month’s update includes critical fixes for the usual suspects:…
Microsoft Office 365 is up and running after an outage on Friday that left users without email throughout Europe and the Asia-Pacific. Account holders who tried to access email reportedly…
Microsoft started forcing Mail to use Edge for email links in Windows 10 build 17623 last month. This week, the company started including Office 365 ads right at the bottom…
A remote-code execution vulnerability in Windows Defender – a flaw that can be exploited by malicious .rar files to run malware on PCs – has been traced back to an…
Days after Microsoft released its third attempt at a fix for the Meltdown security vulnerability in Intel’s modern processors, system administrators say many of their 64-bit Windows 7 and Server…
Microsoft will ban ‘offensive language’ and ‘inappropriate content’ from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services on May 1, claiming it has the right to go through your private data to…
WSL is effectively a layer that translates applications’ Linux kernel system calls into something Windows 10 understands, allowing programs – such as Bash and sed – built for the open-source…
Microsoft’s January and February security fixes for Intel’s Meltdown processor vulnerability opened up an even worse security hole on Windows 7 PCs and Server 2008 R2 boxes.
The Linux Foundation has announced a new hypervisor for use in embedded and internet of things scenarios.
Microsoft’s about to test a new feature of Windows 10 that will force users to employ its Edge browser under some circumstances.
Microsoft’s Tuesday patch-fest may have reacted quite negatively with Windows Server 2008 R2 running VMware, leaving servers offline and administrators scrambling to recover IP addresses.