Network World

MAY 17, 2019

Microsoft took the rare step of issuing security fixes for both the server and desktop versions of Windows that are long out of support, so you know this is serious. The vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0708 ) is in the Remote Desktop Services component built into all versions of Windows.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveils Copilot + PCs, a linchpin of the companys plan to reinvent Windows, during a special event in Redmond in May 2024. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 22, 2023

Every operating system should be appropriately secured, especially end user workstations which often contain or permit access to company data and upon which most employee job duties are based. To get the maximum security protection out of your Windows 10 deployments follow this checklist from TechRepublic Premium.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 31, 2025

Microsoft has released a new preview update, KB5050094 , for Windows 11 24H2 on Tuesday, which aims to fix multiple bugs affecting the operating system, including issues arising from the January Patch Tuesday update. ” The update also resolves a USB audio driver issue that prevented certain devices from starting.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Microsoft last week announced that it would support the Enterprise Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) through July 2018, a year-and-a-half extension for the anti-exploit utility. EMET hasn't kept pace," wrote Jeffrey Sutherland, a Microsoft principal program manager lead, in a post to a company blog Nov.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Checking Windows 11 compatibility on a Windows 10 PC using Microsoft’s PC Health Check App. Microsoft is beginning the global rollout of Windows 11 this afternoon, starting in New Zealand and Australia, where it’s already Oct. 5, the official launch day.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 15, 2017

Security experts argue there would be unintended consequences were Microsoft to provide critical security updates to old operating systems.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2021

Windows 11 with its centered Start menu. Microsoft Image). Microsoft revealed the next version of its PC operating system , Windows 11, with a softer, translucent appearance and updated features focused on improving productivity across multiple devices, leveraging the company’s cloud services.

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Network World

JANUARY 8, 2019

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a memory-protection process for operating systems that guards against buffer-overflow attacks. ASLR is used today on Linux, Windows, and MacOS systems. In 2007, the technique was deployed on Microsoft Windows and MacOS. It was first implemented on Linux in 2005.

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Venture Beat

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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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Soon that same power will reach out to embrace Microsoft Windows, too. eBPF is amazing at enabling rapid innovation for infrastructure and for tooling at the operating system level,” Thomas Graf, co-founder and CTO of Isovalent, said during his keynote. eBPF is coming to Windows,” Graf said. Where is eBPF headed?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

Have you deployed Windows 11 [1] ? Copilot+ PC [2] operates on the latest Windows 11 release, so if you have not made the transition, now is the ideal time to do so. The historical challenges with application compatibility of Windows on ARM have been addressed by Microsoft and Qualcomm. Read the checklist below.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen, left, and Bill Gates with an array of personal computers in the early 1980s. Microsoft’s decision to make software, rather than produce a PC of its own, defined its business in its early years. Learn more and register here for our Microsoft @ 50 event, March 20, 2025, in Seattle. trillion today.

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Anoop

MAY 28, 2019

Microsoft recently released Windows 10 1903 version. Windows 1903 is the eighth (8th) version of the Windows 10 operating system. What are we doing with Windows 7 devices? You will see more details about Windows 7 migration status in this post. Subscribe YouTube Channel [link].

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Microsoft created a secret Windows XP theme that made the operating system look more like a Mac. A recent Windows XP source code leak has revealed Microsoft’s early work on the operating system and some unreleased themes the company created during its early XP development back in 2000.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Amazon Appstore preview on Windows 11. Microsoft Photo). Microsoft is releasing a preview of Android apps running on Windows 11 starting today. It’s a first for Windows, made possible by a Microsoft partnership Amazon and Intel. Here are more details for Windows 11 users who want to give it a try.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Windows 10 users have a limited window to upgrade to Windows 11 for free before Microsoft ends security support for the older operating system on October 14. Microsoft encourages users to transition to Windows 11, which is designed to address current security demands and is a safer choice.

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CTOvision

APRIL 20, 2014

R runs on a wide variety of systems, including Mac, Windows, Linux and Unix. You will immediately see links to Linux, Mac and Windows versions of R. Download and install the one for your system. Now you have R running on your system. It is most frequently associated with statistical computing and graphics.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Microsoft released Windows 365 for business users this morning, making its flagship operating system widely available as a subscription for the first time. It’s a major step toward Microsoft’s vision for “Cloud PCs.”

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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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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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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

CrowdStrike released a faulty update for its Falcon Sensor security software, which had widespread consequences for the entire Windows ecosystem. After assisting millions of PCs in getting back online, Microsoft promised to bolster Windows security through significant changes aimed at making the operating system more resilient.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Windows 11 in dark mode, with the new centered Start menu. Microsoft Photo). Microsoft announced this morning that it will release Windows 11 on Oct. 5 as a free upgrade for existing Windows 10 machines, and pre-installed on new computers. ” The company announced plans for Windows 11 in June.

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2024

A Delta Airlines display connected to a Windows machine impacted by the CrowdStrike update at Sea-Tac Airport. million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a post Saturday detailing its ongoing response to the extraordinary global IT outage. ” . ”

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Microsoft no longer allows Windows 7 and 8 owners to transition to Windows 10 or 11 for free. When Windows 10 launched in 2015, the company made the operating system. Although the announcement came on September 20, testing shows that some paths through the loophole remain but could close soon.

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TechSpot

APRIL 28, 2023

Although Rust is still a relatively recent programming language, Microsoft has already embraced the technology as one of the most promising upgrades for Windows core programming.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 16, 2024

FAT, short for file allocation table, is a file system that was originally designed for floppy disks. FAT eventually found its way to hard drives and other storage mediums, and was the default file system for several Microsoft operating systems until the switch to NTFS in 2001 with Windows XP.

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Tech Republic Cloud

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Running Windows Server on your own infrastructure and using cloud services to do it offers lots of benefits. But that cloud harmony means subscriptions rather than unsupported free operating systems.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Microsoft has started warning Windows 11 users that certain features in the operating system are failing to load due to an expired certificate. The certificate expired on October 31st, and Microsoft warns that some Windows 11 users aren’t able to open apps like the Snipping Tool, touch keyboard, or emoji panel.

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GeekWire

JULY 14, 2021

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Inspire virtual partner conference. Microsoft will release Windows as a paid cloud service , promising to stream the operating system to any device in an attempt to create what the tech giant describes as a new category of computing called the Cloud PC.

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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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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2023

Panos Panay, the Microsoft chief product officer for Windows and Devices, introduces Windows Copilot at Microsoft Build in May. Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) For more than four decades, since the 1980s, pointing and clicking has been the primary method of using a personal computer.

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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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

From Windows 1.0 to Windows 10 The PC revolution started off life 35 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. Back in 1985, Windows 1.0

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Windows 11 version 24H2 dramatically reduces the operating system's installation time, restart time, and CPU usage. Microsoft's internal tests show that the new update process is up to 45 percent faster installation, with restart times reduced by nearly 40 percent on some systems. Read Entire Article

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