Every trick Microsoft pulled to make you browse Edge instead of Chrome
Microsoft Edge is actually good, way better than the old Internet Explorer — but you wouldn’t think so based on how desperately the company tries to shovel it onto your…
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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal with an Excel feature that was interpreting their names as…
Edge begs for answers: Microsoft polling users who download Chrome
Microsoft Edge now shows a survey when you try to download Google Chrome. The survey asks you to explain “why you are trying another browser.”
Microsoft suddenly wants to tell you how to install Linux – but why?
Microsoft has released its own instructions on how to install Linux on your PC, detailing in a step-by-step guide how you should go about choosing a Linux distro and then…
Microsoft Edge is snooping on your Chrome browsing activity; here’s how to stop it
One web browser spying on another? Surely not! However, if you are using both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, Microsoft’s browser could be grabbing all of your browsing history from…
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators
Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard has been approved by UK regulators. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that the deal can proceed after Microsoft…
Google used Microsoft’s monopoly playbook to crush Bing — now Microsoft cries foul
With hypocrisy on full display, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes Google to task for using the same tactics his own company perfected decades ago.
Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery
Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed.
Microsoft realizes new OneDrive photos storage policy isn’t all that good, backtracks
Microsoft, earlier this year, made a change to its OneDrive Storage quota policy which led to problems as unsuspecting users found themselves unable to send and receive emails. That’s because…
Critically close to zero(day): Exploiting Microsoft Kernel streaming service
Last month Microsoft patched a vulnerability in the Microsoft Kernel Streaming Server, a Windows kernel component used in the virtualization and sharing of camera devices. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-36802, allows a…
Microsoft October 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 104 flaws
Today is Microsoft’s October 2023 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 104 flaws, including three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. While forty-five remote code execution (RCE) bugs were fixed, Microsoft only…
Microsoft reportedly is losing lots of money per user on GitHub Copilot
Microsoft has reportedly struggled to make money from its AI services. A new report from The Wall Street Journal claims to have info on how Microsoft has lost lots of…
Microsoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days
Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams and its Edge browser. But Microsoft won’t say…
Linux tries to dump Windows’ notoriously insecure RNDIS protocol
Microsoft’s proprietary protocol, Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS), started with a good idea. It would enable hardware vendors to add networking support to USB devices without having to build…
UK regulator to push for probe into Amazon, Microsoft cloud dominance
British media regulator Ofcom will this week push for an antitrust investigation into Amazon and Microsoft’s dominance of the UK’s cloud computing market, according to two sources familiar with the…
