Tag: Microsoft

September 29, 2016

IT administrators trying to figure out how to move their organizations to Windows 10 have a new tool that might change the game. This week, Microsoft released the Windows Upgrade Analytics Service, designed to make it easier to decide whether […]

September 28, 2016

Analysts today gave mixed reviews to Microsoft’s new security model for its Edge browser, labeling it as both a landmark move and an attempt to mask the underlying problems of Windows that the company has refused to address. “This is […]

September 27, 2016

Microsoft today acknowledged that the Windows 10 adoption pace had slowed when it claimed the new operating system was running on approximately 400 million devices. The company reset the Windows 10 uptake status on the same day it kicked off […]

September 5, 2016

Many civil rights groups, trade bodies and companies, including Google, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Apple and Twitter, have filed briefs in a federal court to back Microsoft’s move to prevent the indiscriminate use by U.S. law enforcement of orders that force […]

September 1, 2016

Microsoft added cadence choices for beta testers in its Office Insider preview program, mimicking a practice it has long used for Windows 10. Previously, only Mac users of Office 2016 were able to pick between “slow” and “fast” preview release […]

August 23, 2016

Microsoft has announced that it’s acquired Genee, a productivity app that launched in beta last year and focused on automating the task of scheduling meetings. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Genee allowed users to set up meetings […]

August 19, 2016

It seems Microsoft doesn’t like Evernote. That’s okay, I don’t either. It doesn’t matter what your reasoning. Whether it’s the constant state of flux in the upper levels of management, the bloated and not-at-all reliable interface or the fact that […]

August 19, 2016

Furthering its mission to work more closely with the developer community, Microsoft is open sourcing PowerShell and making it available on Linux and Mac OS X. PowerShell is the company’s task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on the .NET […]

August 12, 2016

Microsoft is making it dead simple to report a bug to the Edge team: just tweet it. The idea comes from developer Lea Verou, who suggested it to Microsoft back in June. And now her wish has become reality. There […]

August 11, 2016

Security researchers MY123 and Slipstream revealed this week that Microsoft accidentally leaked security keys that allow Windows-based computers, phones and tablets to be unlocked and loaded with other operating systems, as well as malicious software like rootkits. While the company […]

August 3, 2016

LinkedIn has just unveiled the first major new feature to be added to its platform since it was acquired by Microsoft in June. The professional social network now brings short videos to your feed, featuring influencers you follow. The company […]

August 1, 2016

For a year after its launch, Microsoft allowed users of previous versions of its desktop OS to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. That offer ended last week on July 29. If you’ve missed the boat, you’ll be interested to […]

July 28, 2016

From a data center perspective, Iowa has a lot going for it. Its industrial electric rates are 5.71 cents per kWh, near the bottom nationally, according to U.S. data. It has experienced “minor earthquake activity” since the U.S. took control […]

July 21, 2016

As part of a road map for its open source .Net Core runtime, Microsoft is planning more APIs, an upgrade to the F# language, and expanded processor and Linux support. .Net Core, a multi-platform, modular subset of the .Net Framework […]

July 12, 2016

Microsoft says its Surface devices generate revenue of US$1 billion every quarter, and hopes to raise that number by putting the devices on more corporate desktops. The company is partnering with IBM, one of the world’s largest software makers, to […]

July 9, 2016

Microsoft has published the source code for its Project Malmo, allowing anyone to conduct artificial intelligence experiments in the world of Minecraft with a little programming. It unveiled the project, then known as AIX, back in March, but at the […]

July 9, 2016

Microsoft has released an early 64-bit version of Office 2016 for the Mac, giving adventurous users a chance to finally make the move off 32-bit, as their Windows colleagues have long done. “The Mac Office team has been working on […]