Venture Beast

JUNE 25, 2021

Windows 11 includes a new Windows Store that will let developers use their own in-app payment systems and pay no commissions to Microsoft. Read More.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Microsoft President Brad Smith at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Microsoft outlined a series of principles for its development and deployment of artificial intelligence, including a pledge to partner with a “broad array” of companies and other players in the industry. Microsoft recently announced $5.6

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TechSpot

JULY 30, 2021

Windows Insider is a software testing program that gives users access to pre-release builds of Microsoft’s operating systems. It follows a channel model in which each successive tier is increasingly stable, with the goal of helping Microsoft identify and mitigate bugs and flaws ahead of public releases.

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TechSpot

MARCH 14, 2024

A software archaeologist known as Neozeed recently shared a pre-release version of OS/2 2.0, an ambitious PC operating system that Microsoft and IBM were developing together in the 1990s before the former decided to pursue the Windows route. The "raw" floppy images are available on the Internet Archive, and Neozeed.

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Tech Republic

APRIL 17, 2023

The operating system update for the mixed-reality headset includes improved 3D annotations in Dynamics 365 Guides. The post Microsoft offers Windows 11 for HoloLens 2 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority (CMA) has declared that Microsoft has addressed the concerns it had about the software giant's $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming studio Activision Blizzard, clearing the way for the deal to go ahead.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 3, 2024

MS-DOS established the "standard" way to operate personal computers during the Eighties, and the text-based operating system was still playing a significant "startup" role in Windows at least until Windows 2000 and XP arrived on the market. The Microsoft software empire was built on the venerable command prompt, but everything.

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GeekWire

JUNE 22, 2021

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft reached a new milestone Tuesday as the company’s market capitalization hit $2 trillion for the first time. Microsoft stock was up 1.1% ” Microsoft stock has risen 20% over the past 12 months. . ” Microsoft stock has risen 20% over the past 12 months.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2021

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft’s profits rose 33% in the December quarter as CEO Satya Nadella touted a “second wave of digital transformation.” What will be the next big opportunity for Microsoft? She is the author of “Microsoft 2.0: What’s up with Microsoft’s flagship operating system?

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The Verge

JANUARY 4, 2021

Microsoft is planning a “sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows” that is designed to signal to users of the operating system that “Windows is BACK.” Microsoft quietly removed references to this “sweeping visual rejuvenation” this morning, after several Windows enthusiasts spotted the job listing over the weekend.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

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. pic.twitter.com/rusnyrYyX2 — Florian (@flobo09) March 12, 2022.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft says groups connected to governments in China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have begun exploiting vulnerabilities in the Apache Software Foundation’s widely used open-source Log4j software library. Hackers can use the software flaws to gain control of compromised computers and systems. ”

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2021

Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025. It will mark just over 10 years since the operating system was first introduced. Microsoft revealed the retirement date for Windows 10 in an updated support life cycle page for the OS. Microsoft keeps dropping Windows 11 hints.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Microsoft’s new “Pluton” architecture has won support from Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. Microsoft Graphic). It’s modeled after the chip design that Microsoft introduced with the Xbox One in 2013, and also uses in its Azure Sphere processors for Internet of Things devices.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

All enterprise professionals should continue to track MicroSoft ( NASDAQ:MSFT ). We focus most of our energy tracking smaller, more disruptive firms since most enterprise technologists will know how to get updates on MicroSoft, but like the other Tech Titans we track we have to keep an eye out for surprises. What Is Microsoft HoloLens?

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 30, 2021

Microsoft is cautioning that those who take an alternative road to installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware won’t receive software updates. Read more.

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2020

(Microsoft Image). Microsoft unveiled new device management and monitoring options for Microsoft Teams and expanded the use of third-party apps within its collaboration software. It was previously known as Microsoft Managed Meeting Rooms. Microsoft is battling Slack, Zoom, and other collaboration software makers.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Stratvert is a former Microsoft program manager who left the company to focus full-time on his work as a YouTube creator, producing how-to videos about software and services from Microsoft and others. First Look at Windows 11 – impressions from an ex-Microsoft PM. 5 , providing a sense for what to expect. .

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Microsoft isn’t talking about its big Windows plans at Build 2021 this week, and that’s because the company is preparing to detail what’s next for its PC operating system separately. Microsoft has been working on a new app store for Windows in recent months, alongside some significant UI changes to the operating system.

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Mick's IT Blog

JANUARY 22, 2021

I was in the process of pushing out the Microsoft Windows 10 20H2 upgrade when I had 23 systems that errored out. After looking at the logs and at Software Center on the target machine, I found the target machine was not seeing the deployment under Operating Systems. They reported the error shown below.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Microsoft is currently experimenting with two new methods to warn Windows 11 users that they have installed the operating system on unsupported hardware. It’s not clear if Microsoft intends to enable this desktop wallpaper warning widely, though. Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge.

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Vox

JANUARY 26, 2023

Two decades ago, Google edged out Microsoft with the world’s most popular search engine. Microsoft now wants to win the AI race. Chesnot/Getty Images The software stalwart’s big investment in AI could make it cutting-edge again. Microsoft appears to be on the cusp of being something it hasn’t been in a long time: cutting-edge.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 1, 2023

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team recently uncovered a significant vulnerability in macOS , exposing a flaw in the System Integrity Protection (SIP) mechanism. The vulnerability, dubbed "Migraine," enables attackers with root access to bypass SIP and perform arbitrary operations on macOS devices.

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GeekWire

APRIL 27, 2021

The news: Microsoft said there are now 145 million daily active users on Microsoft Teams, its fast-growing collaboration software. Teams has an advantage over competitors because it is offered as a component of the Microsoft 365 subscription plans that include the company’s widely used Office productivity software.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Microsoft today started rolling out the Windows 10 October 2020 Update, the tenth free update for its desktop operating system. Read More.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 11, 2023

Microsoft delivered the final updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8 through extended security update (ESU) this week, closing the book on the aging operating systems. The China Software Development Network blog discovered that the update adds UEFI secure boot to Windows 7, but it appears to be a flawed implementation.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Microsoft is finally signaling the end of the legacy Control Panel in Windows 11. The software giant introduced a number of changes in its Settings section of Windows 11 earlier this year, and this month the company has started testing even more ways to replace Control Panel functionality.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Microsoft will start fully removing Adobe Flash from Windows 10 this summer. The Windows 10 “Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player,” which permanently removes Flash as a component of the operating system, will become mandatory starting in July. Microsoft announced the timeline in an update to a blog post. Image: Adobe.

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Kitaboo

APRIL 29, 2021

The rise in popularity of eBooks has also led to an explosion of new eBook creation software for Windows, Android and other operating systems that make it super convenient to create a full-fledged eBook. Top 8 eBook Creation Software for Windows 1. KITABOO is also compatible with Android and IOS operating systems.

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

Microsoft is making some significant changes to the way it runs its Windows organization this week, signaling a renewed focus on the operating system that made its name. The software giant placed Surface chief Panos Panay in charge of Windows earlier this year , and is now reshuffling parts of that team.

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The Verge

MAY 6, 2021

Microsoft is finally preparing to refresh its Windows 95-era icons. The software giant has been slowly improving the icons it uses in Windows 10, as part of a “sweeping visual rejuvenation” planned for later this year. Microsoft is now planning to refresh the Windows 95-era icons you still sometimes come across in Windows 10.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Good news for PC users: Windows desktop software isn’t going anywhere. In fact, every operating system wants to run it. But in 2023, the hot new commodity is Windows desktop software. A decade ago, the tech media was full of pronouncements that “ PCs are dying ” at the hands of the iPad.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

“Bliss,” the Microsoft Windows XP desktop wallpaper image, as seen in a YouTube video tutorial. Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as the default desktop wallpaper image for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, the search for “Bliss” is still an intriguing one.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Image: Microsoft. After revealing last week that Windows 11 is getting a bigger than usual update in February with Android apps, taskbar improvements, and much more , Microsoft is now detailing its plans for Windows 11 testing throughout 2022.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Today, we start our run with a discussion on the reviews we haven’t talked too much about yet on the show: this year’s software and hardware endeavors from Microsoft. How do the new Surface products fit in with a new operating system? The show answers questions like: Why does Windows 11 feel unfinished?

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JUNE 20, 2023

I remember the arrival of automated patching using Software Update Services (later called Windows Server Update Services). I’ve seen how we went from a system where each vulnerability was patched individually to what we now have: cumulative patching. It protects the operating system. The ideal patch is self-contained.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Microsoft Image. The European Commission gave unconditional approval to Microsoft’s pending acquisition of speech technology company Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion in cash, clearing the way for the second-largest acquisition in Microsoft history. antitrust regulators previously approved the deal.

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