MICROSOFT-OWNED Skype has lost its appeal against a 2016 fine for failing hand over customer data in relation to a criminal investigation in Belgium. Last year, Microsoft was handed a…
Linux rules supercomputing. This day has been coming since 1998, when Linux first appeared on the TOP500 Supercomputer list. Today, it finally happened: All 500 of the world’s fastest supercomputers…
Thanks to an amendment introduced by Sen. Mike Rounds of (R-SD) and co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), this year the NDAA could institute a big change: should the bill…
Microsoft tackled 53 vulnerabilities with today’s Patch Tuesday bulletin. Remote code execution bugs dominated this month’s patches, representing 25 fixes. In total, 20 of Microsoft’s security fixes were rated critical.
Samsung teased the idea of Linux on its flagship phones in October 2017, promising that Linux would run in your hand or, if you use its DeX dock, in full…
More companies today are certainly going the open-source route, especially since the technology has officially won over closed-source, proprietary, off-the-shelf software.
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion last year, promising to closely link the service with its Office suite of applications. While we’ve seen a new Windows 10 app for LinkedIn,…
Microsoft has been investing in India as one of the company’s key growth markets. The company has spent millions of dollars building three cloud data centres in the country in…
Many businesses are clinging to older, pre-cloud and even unsupported versions of Office, going as far back as Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP, the latter of which was…
In a startling departure from the norm, Microsoft not only pulled the buggy Win7/Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 and Win 8.1/Server 2012 R2 patches, but it even eliminated the associated…
Google Chrome is continuing to dominate the desktop browser industry, while Microsoft, which once believed its Edge client would be the next big thing, is having a tough time keeping…
These days, Microsoft is supposedly all about services — about getting you to use and subscribe to its software, regardless of what platform you prefer. That’s why it’s especially hard…
Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of business networking site LinkedIn is starting to pay off – at least in terms of product integrations that make sense. The company today announced that…
We’ve seen lots of blunders on stage, and still happen occasionally, but this must be the best of all. A Microsoft engineer downloaded, installed, and started using Google Chrome during…
Samsung has announced it will soon become possible to run actual proper Linux on its Note8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones – and even Linux desktops.