Microsoft quietly launches $99/hr. paid support service
Microsoft has quietly launched a support website where experts charge $99 for one- or two-hour sessions designed to rid PCs of malware, speed up a machine or solve problems with Windows or Office.
View ArticleFAQ: Microsoft’s new IE auto-upgrade scheme explained
Last week Microsoft announced it is changing how Internet Explorer upgrades on Windows users' PCs in 2012. Taking users out of the equation, Microsoft said, will make the Web, and them, safer.
View Article10 years ago today: Bill Gates kicks arse over security
Analysis Sunday marks the tenth anniversary of Bill Gates' Trustworthy computing memo, which made designing security into applications from the ground up a key priority at Microsoft for the first time....
View ArticleAmazon floats free Windows Server clouds
Amazon is giving Windows shops a taste of Microsoft's Windows server for free in the cloud.
View ArticleAndroid, Windows and Linux Getting Huge Makeovers
Apple's flagship computer operating system, Mac OS X, has seen a long series of incremental improvements since it was first released in 2001.
View ArticleOffice for Windows on ARM: Free or not?
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will "include" four Office apps with Windows on ARM has analysts parsing the news like intelligence agencies that once tried to figure out what went on inside...
View ArticleBrazilians unveil Microsoft SkyDrive’s secret – revealing pics
Brazilian website Gemind has revealed screenshots claimed to show a desktop version for MAC OS and Windows of Microsoft's SkyDrive.
View ArticleAdobe auto-update eases Flash update chore – on Windows only
Adobe has introduced an auto-updater for its Flash software packages that reduces the chore of updating the widely-used application by automating the process for all supported browsers on Windows...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires 20 new Windows security ideas for $13,400 each
Microsoft has received 20 submissions in the $268,000 contest it hopes will result in new security technologies being baked into Windows, a company security strategist said Tuesday.
View ArticleIE ‘silent’ upgrade helps put newest browser on Windows
Microsoft's decision late last year to switch on "silent" upgrades for Internet Explorer (IE) has moved some Windows users to newer versions, but has had little, if any, impact on the oldest editions.
View ArticleAdobe preps silent Flash updates for Macs
Adobe last week released a new beta of Flash Player that includes silent updates for Macs.
View ArticleMozilla and Google blast IE-only Windows on ARM
Mozilla and Google are crying foul over Microsoft restrictions blocking rivals from Windows 8 on ARM, due later this year.
View ArticleSamsung launches low-end Windows Phone with 4-inch display
Samsung Electronics Friday unveiled the Samsung Omnia M, a Windows Phone with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display that will first become available in Europe.
View ArticleWindows Server 2012′s release candidate is now available
Hot on the heels of the big Windows 8 news, the Windows Server team was not to be outdone, and today put out the release candidate of Windows Server 2012.
View ArticleWindows Metro Maoist cadres reach desktop, pound it flat
The revolutionary dogma of Metro is sweeping through the old Windows desktop, too, a new leak of Window 8 confirms. The leaked build, newer than the public release of a fortnight ago.
View ArticleJava-based Web attack installs backdoors on Windows, Linux, Mac computers
A new Web-based social engineering attack that relies on malicious Java applets attempts to install backdoors on Windows, Linux, and Mac computers, according to security researchers from antivirus...
View ArticleMac malware Crisis as Apple lets slip its Mountain Lion
Miscreants have developed a sophisticated multi-platform attack dog designed to maul Windows and Mac OS X computers.
View ArticleMicrosoft acknowledges Surface may trigger OEM hostility
Microsoft yesterday confirmed what most analysts and company watchers had concluded last month when the firm unveiled its own tablet, that it risks alienating the computer makers which account for the...
View ArticleApple breezes to PC sales’ top spot as Windows share decays
Apple sold more PCs worldwide last quarter -- 21 million -- than any rival, retaking the lead it lost the quarter before, U.K.-based Canalys said yesterday. And because Microsoft lacks a tablet...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 embraces the data center
Microsoft has taken its server OS a giant step forward with Tuesday's release of Windows Server 2012, making this version the first that can be controlled remotely so it is more suitable for data...
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