Microsoft forks out $3m in back pay settlement to make Feds' hiring discrimination probe go away
UpdatedAgreement puts a stop to the audit, but isn't an admission of wrongdoing
17 Sep 2020
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Relics of the past to be found in Oxford: A medieval friary, a Saxon wall, and... Windows 7
Bork!Bork!Bork!Shopping paradise forgot to pay for more support
17 Sep 2020
You won't need .NET Standard... except when you do need it: Microsoft sets out latest in ever-changing story
The arrival of .NET 5.0 brings yet another twist
16 Sep 2020
Microsoft open-sources fuzzing tool it uses in-house to keep Windows so very secure
Erm ... guys ... have you looked at recent patch counts? (We have: you issued 372 this quarter, 54 critical)
16 Sep 2020
Peek-a-boo! Windows Insiders play hide and seek with a Friday night update
In briefAlso: GitHub and Teams action while Universal Print presses on
15 Sep 2020
Feeling saucy? Microsoft would like you to use .NET 5.0 'go live' release in production to track down 'critical bugs'
Plus: Updates rolled to ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, and more
15 Sep 2020
As if you needed another reason not to use Visual Studio, C++ extension for Visual Studio Code is live
Optional extra pack a bit like Microsoft Plus! but with CMake instead of Pinball
15 Sep 2020
Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches for a 'complete virtualization stack' with Linux and Hyper-V
Linux on Azure might no longer need Windows
15 Sep 2020
What do F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure all have in common? China exploiting their flaws to hack govt, biz – Feds
Beijing's snoops don't even need zero-days to break into valuable networks
14 Sep 2020
Microsoft wants to link satellites to Azure – but it should probably fix its cloud first: Cooling outage hits UK COVID-19 portal, other sites
UpdatedEquipment failure shuts down servers, networking, storage
14 Sep 2020
Microsoft's Surface Duo cops 1 repairability point for each of its screens: That's 2/10
$1,400 phone has 'built-in death clock' and 'is not something meant to be repaired', muses iFixit
14 Sep 2020
Wow, you guys have so much in common: Oracle hotly tipped to power TikTok’s operations as Microsoft deal rejected
UpdatedA strange pairing indeed
14 Sep 2020
ByteDance rebuffs Microsoft's TikTok purchase proposal
UpdatedRedmond wishes good luck to whoever gets to fix TikTok's security and fake news problems - which may be Oracle as a host not an operator
14 Sep 2020
Climb every mountain, wsl --mount every Linux disk in latest Windows Preview
But beware last week's update: WSL borkage may await ye with sharp, pointy Element Not Found errors
11 Sep 2020
Microsoft releases kernel for unique (but critically panned) Surface Duo phone
Special source poured into GitHub
11 Sep 2020
China, Russia and Iran all attacking US elections and using some nasty new tactics, says Microsoft
UK political parties probed, too, reckons Redmond as it wades into debate with call for extra election security funding
11 Sep 2020
Microsoft to charge $200 for 32 GPU cores, sliver of CPU clockspeed, 6GB RAM, 512GB SSD... and a Blu-Ray player
That’s the price and specs difference between full XBOX X and its smaller all-digital XBOX S sibling
10 Sep 2020
Microsoft reveals slow, staccato, disruptive auto-patching service for some Windows VMs on Azure
Not for all patches, not ASAP, not all at once, not for production workloads and maybe not worth it yet?
10 Sep 2020
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