Category: Microsoft

Microsoft shelves all February security updates

Microsoft today took the unprecedented step of postponing an entire month’s slate of security updates for Windows and its other products just hours before the patches were to begin rolling out to customers. “We discovered a last-minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates today,” Microsoft said in a post to the MSRC blog.

Amazon releases Chime, a new cloud-based UCaaS

Chime is the latest enterprise app from Amazon, which is competing with Microsoft and Google across higher levels of the cloud stack Amazon is entering a crowded market of UC solutions, some of which are already cloud-based and others that run on customer premises. Nevertheless, analysts who track Amazon say the company has an opportunity here.

Microsoft adds patent suit protections for cloud customers

This July 3, 2014, file photo shows the Microsoft Corp. logo outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash. In a ruling released Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, a federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Microsoft that claims a law that prohibits technology companies from telling customers when the government demands their electronic data is unconstitutional.

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Dr. Scott Ottaway is Research Director, DevOps at IDC. His responsibilities focus on market analysis, tracking, forecasting and consulting on software development trends related to DevOps.

NirSoft releases LoadedDLLsView

If you don’t know what the program does from the name then you’re not in the target audience, but essentially it scans all the running processes on your system, detecting and listing whatever DLLs they’re using. The usual NirSoft table includes plenty of information for each DLL: its name, type , product name and version, file description and version, company, path, file created/ modified times, file size and the total number of processes using that DLL.

Uber chief steps away from Trump board, as tech leaders dial up political pushback

Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of global ride-hailing company Uber, has said he will step down from a council of business advisors to the White House, as major tech companies continue to protest President Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugee programs. The announcement is the latest in a series of critical responses to Mr. Trump’s executive orders, highlighting the tech industry’s difficult position as it tries to engage with Trump, while still advocating for immigration laws that support their employees.

Dropbox Intros Google Docs Rival

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Eurofound Adopt FlowForma BPM to Drive 75% Efficiency Improvement

FlowFormaA , the leading provider of BPM tools for Microsoft Office 365A , today announced that its FlowForma BPM tool has become a strategic asset for European Union agency, Eurofound. -based Eurofound provides research and knowledge in the area of social and work-related policies for the improvement of living and working conditions.

Amazon’s Echo is bringing the eighties back, and not always in a good way

Back when I was a kid in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the best way to get stuff done on a computer was with the Microsoft DOS command prompt – a text-based operating system for computers that looks positive antiquated today. This so-called “command line” interface has a surprising amount of flexibility, letting you do just about anything on your computer in just a few keystrokes.

Microsoft’s market value tops $500b again after 17yrs

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Narayana Nadella speaks at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 26, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Lucas Jackson Microsoft Corp’s market capitalization topped $500 billion for the first time since 2000 on Friday, after the technology giant’s stock rose following another quarter of results that beat Wall Street’s expectations.

Boom in Cloud powers results of Microsoft, Intel and Alphabet

Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel, which all posted quarterly results Thursday, reinforced what’s become a truism in technology: the biggest growth is in businesses that deliver computing over the internet. Microsoft topped projections on the strength of rising customer sign-ups for its cloud offerings like Azure, which saw revenue almost double.

Microsoft to increase use of AI

Microsoft will increase its use of artificial intelligence in order to improve the company’s products, chief executive Satya Nadella said when revealing the tech giant’s latest financial results. The company behind the Windows PC software reported revenue of $US24.1 billion in the three months to December 31, up on the $US23.8 billion it generated in the same period last year, an increase driven by the firm’s cloud-based products, Nadella said.

Microsoft will increase use of AI to improve products, says chief executive

Microsoft will increase its use of artificial intelligence in order to improve the company’s products, chief executive Satya Nadella said when revealing the tech giant’s latest financial results. The company behind the Windows PC software reported revenue of 24.1 billion US dollars in the three months to December 31, up on the 23.8 billion it generated in the same period last year, an increase driven by the firm’s cloud-based products, Mr Nadella said.

New Fears for Future of Net Neutrality

Ajit Pai, named the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission by President Donald Trump yesterday, is likely to seek changes to the organization’s stance on Net Neutrality. Pai was one of two commissioners to vote against the FCC’s 3-2 approval of the Open Internet Order in early 2015.

Microsoft Office 2013/2016 high CPU on RDS servers

This may help some out there, although it’s not an idea fix it may help someone until Microsoft release a fix or someone else comes up with a better option. When opening a new or existing word document on any of the servers and making some changes, leaving the mouse and keyboard without any additional input would result in a high CPU being used by the word application after some time ranging from 1 minute to 1 minute 40 seconds.

Microsoft victory in overseas email seizure case is upheld

An equally divided federal appeals court refused to reconsider its landmark decision forbidding the U.S. government from forcing Microsoft Corp and other companies to turn over customer emails stored on servers outside the United States. Tuesday’s 4-4 vote by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan let stand a July 14 decision that was seen as a victory for privacy advocates, and for technology companies offering cloud computing and other services worldwide.

Students teach Somerset School Committee members how to code

North Elementary School fifth grade students not only gave a presentation to the Somerset School Committee on what they do with computer coding in their classes, but they also took a few minutes to look at the laptop computers of the School Committee members and gave them a few lessons about how to write code. “I can promise you, I didn’t know this stuff in fifth grade, fourth grade, third grade and down,” School Committee Chairman Stu Mahjoory said after a student showed him how to write code.

Microsoft Asserts Clients’ Rights in Fbi E-Mail Searches Fight

Microsoft Corp.’s effort to halt the FBI’s so-called sneak-and-peek searches of e-mails may ride on whether it’s allowed to defend its customers’ constitutional rights. The judge who will decide whether the case can go ahead told the company’s lawyers to be ready in court Monday to address earlier rulings that undercut their arguments.

MS: Update to Windows 10 ASAP

It’s no secret that Microsoft wants customers to update to Windows 10, the latest version of the company’s operating system. With extended support for the older Windows 7 OS set to expire in 2020, Redmond has been pushing companies to start migrating to the latest OS for a while now.

MS: Update to Windows 10 ASAP

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