Broadcoms VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure

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An AI isn't secure if it's gullible and can be tricked into compliance, experts find.

Blocking domains is a game of whack-a-mole in which attackers automate new moles popping up almost instantly.

Data and finance professionals are competing in Excel obstacle coursesamassing huge followings and keeping the Microsoft program relevant.

Microsoft Teams changes its rules on censoring profanity in captions - unless you're a government worker.

Mozilla, syarikat pembangun disebalik pelayar web Mozilla Firefox hari ini telah mengumumkan bahawa pelayar web tersebut kini boleh digunakan untuk menstrim permainan-permainan komputer melalui perkhidmatan penstriman GeForce Now. Sokongan ini hadir untuk pengguna Mozilla Firefox yang menggerakkan komputer mereka menggunakan sistem operasi Microsoft Windows 11, dan bergantung kepada jenis langganan anda, Firefox boleh menstrim permainan […]

Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, survey shows

Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant has created the Microsoft Rebrand Registry, cataloging 72 Microsoft products and the 158 names they've had over the years

'Probably has a lot to do with figuring out how to get Windows 11 working on 8GB': Microsoft debloats right-click menu in a big way, but the cynics still aren't happy.

Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory

Some affected companies argue the data is years old and claim no breach in their systems.

bankruptcy court auctioned off Spirit Airlines' treasure trove of data, with Google making the winning bid. The tech giant is paying $10 million for various information, including hundreds of millions of emails and Microsoft Teams conversations, and billions of flight pricing data and transaction records.

If youre still talking about DirSync or Active Directory instead of Entra, and need to explain why, this is the site for you

Microsoft Excel's COPILOT() function will soon bite the dust.

Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service

"It works by making subtle changes in the AI's word choices across the text it generates, which are supposed to be imperceptible to a human but, in aggregate, form a pattern that is detectable with the tool." Anthropic said it was implementing the watermark system in response to the European Union's landmark AI Act passed in 2024, which requires that AI companies mark content that's been generated or edited by their systems. TechCrunch notes that other companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Synthesia have committed to adhering to the EU's code

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While Windows Recall was the centre of quite the cybersecurity controversy, we havent heard much of it since Microsoft rolled it out to Insiders last year

Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change

It's not just RAM prices that are going up, writes CNET. "Reports suggest the cost of Windows licenses for manufacturers is rising by up to 10%." Several sites that closely follow Microsoft news, including Windows Central and Windows Latest, have published articles citing a report from Taiwan's Economic Daily News that claims some PC manufacturers are seeing a 7% to 10% increase in the cost of Windows 11 licenses..

VLC developers say a Windows 11 issue involving Microsoft Defender can interfere with the media player's plugin cache and cause unusually long playback delays.

Microsoft fixed it as part of the April Patch Tuesday cumulative update, but there are other fixes and mitigations available, too.

Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education

You can now ditch pre-installed bloatware on your Samsung Galaxy phone.

Seperti yang telah diumumkan sebelum ini, Microsoft menggabungkan aplikasi Copilot dan Microsoft 365Copilot bermula hari ini

Microsoft has been steadily scaling back its China presence, closing at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures over the past five years as Beijing favors domestic software

The amorphous corporate mascot will no longer haunt Copilot Voice.

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Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps ahead of a broader "super app" launch later this year

Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop

Nightmare Eclipse drops ShieldBreak, another Windows zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability, but Microsoft has rushed quickly to block it with Defender

Microsoft is merging its consumer and business Copilot apps

This is the tenth zero-day the disgruntled researcher disclosed, and yet another released soon after a Patch Tuesday.

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Users report encountering 'challenges' when trying to change their default browser, and being stuck with Edge when they don't want it.

Russia's designated Microsoft Office replacement closes the office where it was built, with its majority owner says import substitution does not work in this segment.

The crunch on the PC market continues as the rising memory chip prices are not the only thing that's getting more expensive. Starting today, Microsoft is hiking up its Windows 11 license fees for OEMs

Exploit Wednesday's back, baby

Tahun ini Microsoft berjanji akan menjadikan pengalaman penggunaan Windows 11 lebih lancar menerusi optimasi aplikasi natif, membuang ciri AI yang tidak diperlukan dan Low Latency Profile

Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm

Amid RAMageddon, a new report says PCs are facing further price hikes as Microsoft raises its Windows 11 licensing fees for PC makers.

Before the Duo, there was this.

Think Windows 11's Notepad is too bloated these days? Someone got an ancient version of Word running natively in Windows 11.

Microsoft Edge is dropping Manifest V2 extension platform support starting this August, with the transition to Manifest V3 expected to be completed by early 2027.

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The bad news is, for Windows PCs, things may just get more expensive. According to a report out of Taiwan, the prices of PC end products may go up by around 5% in this third […] The post Report: Microsoft Imposes Higher-Than-Usual Price Hikes For OEMs’ Windows License appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

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"The change is a direct result of Google's litigation with Epic, which saw a judge rule in 2024 that the Play Store would have to open up to third-party stores," notes The Verge. The change makes rival storefronts far easier to discover and install, potentially opening the door for Epic, Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft and others to distribute their own app stores through Google's store

Nvidia's graphics processing units, or GPUs, underpin most of the leading US AI models available today. [...] The biggest cloud-computing companies, including Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon, have dramatically increased their spending on AI infrastructure as they look to win the race to dominate the emerging technology

You might be able to enjoy Xbox PC and PC Game Pass titles on Linux very soon thanks to the efforts of the Xodus team, who're emulating the entire Xbox PC stack through open-source implementations of Microsoft's proprietary components and dependencies.

What RAM crisis? Microsoft reportedly hikes cost of Windows 11 for computer makers, rubbing software salt into PC pricing wounds.

Worried about the RAM crisis? Microsoft isn't, if Windows 11's Weather app is anything to go by.

Microsoft's cloud storage app OneDrive got a new Photos app in the worst possible way, reports the blog Neowin

Windscribe's deGDID removes Windows tracking identifiers while preventing new ones, although several Microsoft cloud authentication services stop functioning afterward.

A developer has ported 1990's Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a to x64 so it can run natively on Windows 11 PC systems.

Early last month, alternative search engine DuckDuckGo announced that its browser will integrate ad blocking for YouTube ads, powered by uBlock Origin. This month, Microsoft announced the opposite for its Edge browser, though its a move thats pretty in line with the primary Chromium browser, Google Chrome itself

Upgrade to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro with a lifetime license for just $11.23 (reg

The Washington Post shared surprising news this week about five top AI companies. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle "are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they're expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence." Free cash flow, which measures the cash left over after paying expenses and AI infrastructure costs, is now expected to shrink to almost nothing for the five companies combined in 2026, and decline again to negative $125 billion the following year..

Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation

Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data

Microsoft needs to sort out Windows Update we don't want random OneDrive apps shoved onto our PCs without asking.

A pulled Teams update could have allowed users to keep annoying chats muted with new controls.

You may like Pages and you may tolerate Microsoft Word, but text editor BBEdit has been rightly earning devotees on the Mac for 34 years

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Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich used Claude to build a gloriously impractical setup that runs Doom in the background and pastes each rendered frame into Microsoft Paint through the Windows clipboard

Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward

Perhaps an allow list of domains might be better?

32GB is the 'no-worries zone'? Not anymore as Microsoft backtracks on past RAM recommendations, while Apple's seemingly having troubles of its own.

You can run the deGDID script on your computer to delete cached GDID keys and prevent Microsoft's servers from minting new ones in the background

Microsoft appears to be doubling down on backwards compatibility for its next-generation Xbox console

Microsoft is taking advantage of its intellectual property rights with OpenAI, encouraging employees to use the company's top model.

Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures

The upcoming Xbox Helix is starting to feel more like a PC than any console before, and Microsoft's latest efforts to unite all Xbox generations under one roof, according to a new leaked memo, seem to signal that very explicitly.