Wordpad gets adverts
I am so old I remember when everything was free once you paid for it
Software king of the world Microsoft has decided that Wordpad should be generating it a little more revenue and is going to host adverts.
Microsoft makes carbon pledge
Will be carbon negative
Microsoft has announced an aggressive plan to rectify its role in the climate crisis and save polar bears.
End of life for Windows 7 is good
For the sake of PC
Windows 7 official support ended on the January 14 and Microsoft is urging all users to upgrade to Windows 10.
Microsoft kills off Explorer
All roads lead to Chrome
Microsoft today killed off Explorer and moved to the same code base as Google’s Chrome.
Microsoft patches big bug in Windows 10
Spotted by the NSA
Microsoft has patched a serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows.
Microsoft is the most popular supplier of public cloud services
Amazon still makes the most cash
A Goldman Sachs survey of technology executives at large companies last month showed that Microsoft remained the most popular supplier of public cloud services, while Amazon leads the market overall in terms of revenue.
Microsoft listened into Skype calls with no security
Was that a bad thing?
Software king of the world Microsoft might have made a security boo-boo when it tried to improve Skype and Cortana by listening in to calls.
Microsoft releases peudo-spotting tool
Project Artemis looks at sexual predator's patterns of communication
Software King of the World Microsoft has developed an automated system to identify when sexual predators are trying to groom children within the chat features of video games and messaging apps.
Microsoft takes out 50 North Korean hacking domains
Thallium tracked for months
Microsoft announced today that it successfully took down 50 web domains previously used by a North Korean government-backed hacking group.
Microsoft gives a few more Xbox Series X details
Zen 2 CPU and next-gen RDNA GPU
After the initial world premiere of the Xbox Series X, a new console that looks a lot like an SFF PC or an HTPC, Microsoft has released a blog post which talks a bit more about the power and the hardware behind it.