Thomson Reuters in its new list for Top 100 Global Technology Leaders confirms that Microsoft has taken the leading spot overtaking Apple and Google to become the World’s Number 1 Technology Leader. Microsoft is followed by Intel and Cisco with Apple and IBM also making it to the Top 10 list of Number 1 technology leaders. …
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An interview with Microsoft’s director of office envisioning Anton Andrews…
Anton Andrews, wants to flip that equation by answering what he calls his core question: “How do you get people to lean in and do their best work together and collaborate?”
It’s a question that Microsoft has been asking itself for years.
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Email clients are no longer designed with just the basics we’ve come to expect, but the best now include exceptional features, things like snoozing messages, scheduling emails, and offering templates—touches that help them stand out against the growing crowd.
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In a new study, a group of UK researchers report that users of Home edition experience unexpected restarts and inconsistent installation times, caused by inappropriate defaults and inadequate notice of pending updates.
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Actually, you don’t have to pay. Read the article to find out why. But you really should move to Windows 10!
There’s one key feature that makes Windows 10 a must-do upgrade: Security. Windows 10 has far better intrinsic security features than Windows 7. This makes sense, because when Microsoft introduced Windows 10, it had six years more experience fighting off cyberattacks than it had when Windows 7 was introduced.
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Microsoft is giving commercial customers until January 2020 to transition to IE 11. “After this, we will not release any security or non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content changes for IE10,” Microsoft says.
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Malware can spread much more easily on obsolete platforms, warns security body. With less than a year until the end of Windows 7 support, don’t get caught out. …Keeping software up to date is one of the most effective ways of keeping your networks and devices secure, it said in a blog post: “This is why planning your upgrades far in advance is especially important.
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After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates or support for PCs running Windows 7 — unless you want to pay extra, of course. … According to Forrester’s survey of infrastructure decision-makers, 56 percent of company-issued PCs are currently running Windows 10 — up eight percent from last year, and 18 percent from the year before. “This shift is happening at a quick rate …
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Over half of applications installed on Windows PCs are out-of-date, potentially putting the security of users at risk through flaws in software that have already been patched by vendors. … running out-of-date software can provide an open door for hackers to take advantage of holes left in programs that haven’t had critical security updates applied….
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One year from today — on January 14, 2020 — Microsoft’s support for Windows 7 will cease. That means no more updates or fixes, including security fixes after that date, which is the first Patch Tuesday of 2020, unless a customer pays.
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Many people keep unnecessary software installed on their systems. Some programs are just outdated, others are downright malicious. … Let’s take a look at commonly installed software you don’t need to have on your PC.
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It’s been over a week since Facebook announced that, thanks to a coding vulnerability, access tokens for at least 50 million* accounts were stolen. Access tokens are important. As Facebook explained in its blog detailing the hack, they are “the equivalent of digital keys that keep people logged in to Facebook so they don’t need to re-enter their password every time they use the app.”
The hack also impacted Facebook’s Single Sign-On, which lets people use one account to log into other sites, meaning the impact of the breach is perhaps wider than even Facebook initially reported. Still, at the moment, there’s no way to know how big of a problem it is, or will be. Nor do we know who did it. We’re in the dark for one simple reason: Facebook has said next to nothing about what it knows — or if it knows much at all. Ad-driven platforms tend to succeed thanks to one thing: our vulnerability.
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Microsoft is reportedly working on a fix for a bug in its activation server that has caused Windows 10 Pro machines to report that their license has not been activated. …
Microsoft has reportedly confirmed there is an issue affecting its activation server and is working on a fix that will happen in “one or two business days”.
That should mean affected Windows 10 Pro licenses are still valid, despite what Microsoft is reporting.
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Recent antitrust developments make it possible, in theory at least, for Microsoft and Amazon to effectively create an alternative to the stock Android experience and dislodge Google from its hegemony over the Android platform. (Microsoft also has a robust selection of apps on iOS devices, but the locked-down nature of the platform makes this sort of takeover impossible.) But you don’t have to wait for that unicorn phone to arrive. You can create a Microsoft-centric experience on Android devices now with remarkably little work.
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Amazon and Microsoft are the two companies best suited to go face to face with Google in terms of app ecosystem and native application offerings for Android. Four or five years ago, this would have been inconceivable. Neither company was in a position to provide compelling applications or store experiences that rivaled what Google had. But that has changed.
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The Windows 10 October 2018 version 1809 upgrade hasn’t gone well for a bunch of users who lost documents and photos after updating. …
For some unknown reason, moving up to Windows 10 version 1809 may delete all the files in user folders. The folders remain, but the files within them are gone, leaving users in potentially a worse pickle than ransomware victims experience. However, there is a chance that early Windows 10 upgraders who encountered this problem might be able to recover lost files by using the free version of Avast-owned Recuva recovery software.
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Even in this cloud-centric world, there remain good reasons to own and run a physical server out of your office (or even home). Which server? That depends entirely on what you’ll be using it for.
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Microsoft has an uncanny ability to consistently come up with amazing mobile apps. If the barren feature-set in Apple’s native Mail app just doesn’t cut it for you anymore, then Outlook should be a breath of fresh air. Microsoft’s emailing app just breaks the mold. … all it takes is a little digging around to familiarize yourself with this awesome app and tame it the way you want it to work. And these nifty pointers should help you do that even faster.
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Everywhere you look in Windows 10, Microsoft’s slipped in powerful tools built to appeal to PC power users.
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While the $2,999 price tag will deter most consumers, Microsoft seems to be targeting the Studio at design professionals, who would otherwise be using Apple Macs …
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We continue to look at products that laid the foundation for the modern world. Windows XP and OS X (now macOS) 10.0 were both released in 2001, and served as the foundation for our current desktop operating systems.
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Among the upgrades in the Windows 10 Creators Update are changes to how you manage and control your privacy.
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Singh said the goal was to make it possible for end users to never deal with a password in their day-to-day lives, and to provide instead user credentials that cannot be cracked, breached, or phished.
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According to Forrester, implementing Office 365 in companies from 1 employee to 250 employees, has a payback of 5.1 months with a 154% ROI.
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Microsoft’s Office 365 suite of cloud applications is now the most popular cloud service in the world by user count. While this has fast-tracked Microsoft’s path to becoming a cloud-first enterprise software company, it has also put a bulls-eye on Office 365, making it a target of choice for hackers. …KnockKnock has been active since May 2017 and is currently still active. To go undetected, the hacking activity occurs in short stints, averaging 3-5 attempts of guessing the password of the system account before moving on to a different account within an organization. Moreover, it doesn’t display the same level of activity across multiple organizations. As it ramps up its number of attempts in one organization, it ramps down in others, further making detection difficult.
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