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Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’

The Verge

Image: Microsoft. Microsoft launched its new cloud PC Windows 365 service earlier this week , and the company has already had to pause free trials due to demand. Windows 365 lets you rent a cloud PC — with a variety of CPU, RAM, and storage options — and then stream Windows 10 or Windows 11 via a web browser.

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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

The Verge

Image: Microsoft. Microsoft appears to be testing a new type of ad inside File Explorer on Windows 11. Microsoft MVP and Twitter user Florian Beaubois discovered an ad in the latest test build of Windows 11, prompting users to check out the Microsoft Editor.

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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

GeekWire

Panos Panay, the Microsoft chief product officer overseeing the Windows and Devices division, introduces Windows Copilot at Microsoft Build in May. “After 19 incredible years at Microsoft, I’ve decided to turn the page and write the next chapter,” Panay wrote on X.

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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

CTOvision

But optimism came in the form of Microsoft as word began to spread that the company had solved the problems they experienced with Windows 8/8.1 and that Windows 10 was better than the Enterprise could have imagined. Windows 10. Microsoft seems to have figured out why IT did not make the move to Windows 8/8.1,

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An engineer’s journey from fighting crime on the dark web to leading ‘societal resilience’ at Microsoft

GeekWire

Chris White, general manager of Microsoft Research Special Projects, is leading a team that is developing open-source software tools and infrastructure to address crisis driven challenges. ” To that end, earlier this year White helped form a new organization within Microsoft Research group. John Edwards / TriFilm Photo).

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3 ways Windows Server 2016 is tackling security

Network World

Every version of Windows — client and server — has promised improved security. But with Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, Microsoft is going beyond the usual incremental improvements and closing of loopholes and giving you the tools to reduce the dangers of phished credentials, over-privileged admins and untrustworthy binaries. “In

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A love for sci-fi sparked Megan Brown’s STEM path and led to quantum computing at Microsoft

GeekWire

” A program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum, Brown calls the job a dream come true. Brown works on Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit (QDK), which was released in 2017 and intended to empower developers to create quantum applications. I’m a program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum.

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