Apple finally removes support for Flash
Now the ghost of Steve Jobs will have to find another reason why Safari keeps breaking
More than a decade ago, Apple's High Priest Steve Jobs moaned that Flash was responsible for things breaking in his software. Now, it seems Apple is ending all connection with the software which appears to have outlasted Jobs himself.
Microsoft’s new Xbox will not ship with reason to buy
Xbox Series X will not have true first-party exclusives
Software King of the World Microsoft has decided that its new Xbox, the Xbox Series X, will launch without true first-party exclusives – which some in the industry think is going to kill the console stone dead.
Wordpad gets adverts
I am so old I remember when everything was free once you paid for it
Software king of the world Microsoft has decided that Wordpad should be generating it a little more revenue and is going to host adverts.
Microsoft makes carbon pledge
Will be carbon negative
Microsoft has announced an aggressive plan to rectify its role in the climate crisis and save polar bears.
End of life for Windows 7 is good
For the sake of PC
Windows 7 official support ended on the January 14 and Microsoft is urging all users to upgrade to Windows 10.
Microsoft kills off Explorer
All roads lead to Chrome
Microsoft today killed off Explorer and moved to the same code base as Google’s Chrome.
Microsoft patches big bug in Windows 10
Spotted by the NSA
Microsoft has patched a serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows.
Microsoft is the most popular supplier of public cloud services
Amazon still makes the most cash
A Goldman Sachs survey of technology executives at large companies last month showed that Microsoft remained the most popular supplier of public cloud services, while Amazon leads the market overall in terms of revenue.
Microsoft listened into Skype calls with no security
Was that a bad thing?
Software king of the world Microsoft might have made a security boo-boo when it tried to improve Skype and Cortana by listening in to calls.
Microsoft releases peudo-spotting tool
Project Artemis looks at sexual predator's patterns of communication
Software King of the World Microsoft has developed an automated system to identify when sexual predators are trying to groom children within the chat features of video games and messaging apps.