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Opinion Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and pals promise clarity on cybercrew naming, deliver alias salad instead
Cyber-crime03 Jun 2025 | 14
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Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU
Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 19
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025
PaaS + IaaS03 Jun 2025 | 48
Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff
Microsoft's latest and greatest still lags behind predecessor as time runs out
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 54
Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma
Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 13
Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them
OSes02 Jun 2025 | 137
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Opinion The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise?
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 10
Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft
High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing
AI + ML30 May 2025 | 32
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs
'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message
Patches29 May 2025 | 17
Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps
Also in preview: a settings backup feature to support OS upgrades
OSes28 May 2025 | 42
From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled'
He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom
Public Sector27 May 2025 | 25
New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack
Dutch intel services, Microsoft go big-game hunting
Cyber-crime27 May 2025 | 11
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
Opinion Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 203
Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system
SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems
Databases23 May 2025 | 5
Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond
A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 144
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer
It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination
OSes23 May 2025 | 75
Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM
Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos
Security22 May 2025 | 63
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper
European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
FBI, Microsoft, international cops bust Lumma infostealer service
Credit card theft losses in 2023 alone totaled $36.5M
Cyber-crime21 May 2025 |
Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell
Build Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows?
OSes20 May 2025 | 74
Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet
Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behavior
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 24
Microsoft open sources Windows Subsystem for Linux – well, most of it
Time to stand on its own two webbed feet?
OSes19 May 2025 | 19
GitHub Copilot angles for promotion from assistant to agent
Build Agent mode arrives, for better or worse
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 7
Latest patch leaves some Windows 10 machines stuck in recovery loops
Updated Veteran OS might be almost out of support, but there's still time for Microsoft to break it
OSes19 May 2025 | 21
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard
Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let go
Software16 May 2025 | 45
CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards
Comment An overdependence on hyperscalers and a mountain of debt could pull the rug out
AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 5
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away
Applications16 May 2025 | 31
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade
Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained
SaaS16 May 2025 | 7
Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters
Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show
PaaS + IaaS16 May 2025 | 15
Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative
Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms
Software15 May 2025 | 38
The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet
Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-waste
OSes15 May 2025 | 248
Apple patched one first, but Microsoft’s blasted five exploited flaws this Pa-Tu
Patch Tuesday Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti
Patches14 May 2025 | 3
Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line
Redmond talks up new technologies, capabilities for productivity ... just don’t call it AI
Software13 May 2025 | 26
Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software
Updated Stop us if you've heard this one before
OSes13 May 2025 | 44
Türkiye-linked spy crew exploited a messaging app zero-day to snoop on Kurdish army in Iraq
'MarbledDust' gang has honed the skills it uses to assist Ankara
Security13 May 2025 | 3
TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade
Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more
Legal12 May 2025 | 4
Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese
Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules
AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 22
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI
This BS ends at some point, right?
AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 48
The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit
Icons from a more civilized time
Software08 May 2025 | 70
'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?'
Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box
Bootnotes08 May 2025 | 11
Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos
Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed
Security07 May 2025 | 2
Fedora 42 now an official Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distro
Modern Linux, vintage kernel
OSes07 May 2025 | 19
Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu
Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right?
OSes07 May 2025 | 108
Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?
Comment Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play?
Personal Tech07 May 2025 | 141
Microsoft burnishes green cred by paying Swedes to burn biomass and bury CO2
Updated Schemes like this are just a license to pollute for tech giants, or so critics say
Science06 May 2025 | 12
Culture comes first in cybersecurity. That puts cybersecurity on the front line in the culture wars
Opinion 'Trust us, we're from Trumpland' may not help Microsoft as much as it hopes
Columnists06 May 2025 | 46
Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans
A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money
SaaS06 May 2025 | 2
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption
Applications03 May 2025 | 88
Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands
Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates
Legal02 May 2025 | 7
Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot
Why optimize code when you can just start running sooner?
Software01 May 2025 | 100
Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both
The spreadsheet from Hell
Bootnotes01 May 2025 | 24
Microsoft tries to kill the 'pausing datacenter builds must be bad news for AI' trope
Sees economic strife as chance to sell even more stuff than its $70bn Q3 haul
Off-Prem01 May 2025 | 5
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence
Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them
PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105
BTW Windows Subsystem for Linux officially uses Arch now
The tryhard's favorite distro wins an approved home in Microsoft's OS
OSes30 Apr 2025 | 13
30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff
Satya Nadella reveals attempts to merge Word, PowerPoint, Excel, which may now happen with LLMs
AI + ML30 Apr 2025 | 88
Windows profanity filter finally gets a ******* off switch
No more asterisks. Voice typing now reflects the true spirit of your rage
OSes28 Apr 2025 | 37
Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction
Opinion Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there's a problem
OSes28 Apr 2025 | 177
Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025
Redmond reckons $1.50/core/month hotpatch service is worth it to avoid eight Patch Tuesday scrambles each year
OSes28 Apr 2025 | 41
Samsung admits Galaxy devices can leak passwords through clipboard wormhole
Infosec in brief PLUS: Microsoft fixes messes China used to attack it; Mitre adds ESXi advice; Employee-tracking screenshots leak; and more!
Security28 Apr 2025 | 11
Oh, cool. Microsoft melts bug that froze Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions
Where have we heard this before? Feb security update needs its own fix
OSes25 Apr 2025 | 1
Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Cursor, Codium makers lose access as add-on goes exclusive
Devops24 Apr 2025 | 69
Microsoft mystery folder fix might need a fix of its own
This one weird trick can stop Windows updates dead in their tracks
Security24 Apr 2025 | 50
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