Microsoft discovers it is better if voles work less
Published in News


Productivity went up with a four day week

While most companies believe that working staff for long hours is a good way to make targets, Microsoft has announced the results on its four day working week and found traditional firms are fooling themselves.

BlueKeep vulnerablity attacks taking place
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Targets Windows XP

One of the worst wormable Windows vulnerabilities have been seen in the wild and it is targeting unpatched Windows XP machines.

Amazon to challenge loss of Jedi deal
Published in Cloud


Court battle coming

Amazon is set to contest a decision by the US defence department to award the $10 billion Jedi defence contract to Microsoft.

Azure Sphere microcontroller out in February
Published in Cloud


Branding out now

Microsoft officials said the company's Azure Sphere microcontroller (MCU) and associated cloud security service will be generally available in February 2020.

Amazon snubbed as Microsoft is the last Jedi standing
Published in Cloud


US defense contract goes to Vole

The US government has snubbed Amazon and awarded a massive $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft, the Department of Defense has confirmed.

Microsoft's cloud continues to coin in cash
Published in Home

$33.1 billion in revenue

Microsoft reported $33.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal 2020 first quarter, representing a 14 percent increase over the same period last year, and profits of $10.7 billion, up 21 per cent.

Microsoft in trouble with EU GDPR law
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Many Volish contracts questioned

Microsoft's contracts with European Union institutions do not fully comply with the law, the EU’s data watchdog has growled.

Microsoft pushes secure core PCs
Published in PC Hardware


Available from Dell, Dynabook, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, and Surface

Microsoft announced a new initiative to combat threats specifically targeted at the firmware level and data stored in memory –  secured-core PCs.

SAP cuddles up with Microsoft
Published in Cloud


Jennifer Morgan's glorious three-year embrace

The maker of expensive esoteric business software, which no one is sure what it does but CIOs believe is the bee's knees, SAP, has inked a three-year pact with the software king of the world Microsoft to help its large enterprise customers move their business processes into the cloud.

Surface Pro X is the tweaked Snapdragon 8CX
Published in Mobiles


Tuned up and rebranded

A Microsoft hardware event revealed the latest Intel, ARM and AMD based products and Surface Pro X based on ARM caught a lot of attentio. To set things straight, the Microsoft SQ1 is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8CX.