Microsoft bloke says Mozilla should kill Firefox
Surrender to the mighty Google
A Microsoft manager has hacked off shedloads with his claim that Mozilla should give up on Firefox and surrender to Chromium – just like Vole did.
Bing not banned in China
Technical issues
It turns out that reports last week that Bing was blocked by the Chinese censors might have been untrue and that last week's outage was caused by a good old fashioned server outage.
Microsoft snaps up open source database company
Citus Data now makes Voleware
Microsoft said that it’s acquiring Citus Data, a startup that has commercialised open source database software called PostgreSQL.
Apple and Microsoft cuddle up to Brazil president
Women, minorities, and the LGBTs - they must have had a lot to talk about.
Apple and Microsoft CEOs found themselves at dinner with the homophobic, sexist Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro at the World Economic Forum .
Microsoft suggests Windows 10 mobile users switch to Android
Or you could be silly and waste your money on an iPhone, we don't really care
Software king of the world Microsoft has told those still using Windows 10 mobile that they will have to buy something different.
Microsoft making foldable devices
In time for Apple to invent two years later
The company, which brought the world the tablet and the touchscreen smartphone, is working on adapting Windows to work on foldable devices.
3DMark Port Royal available for download
First dedicated Ray Tracing benchmark
As announced earlier, UL Benchmarks has now officially launched its first dedicated ray tracing benchmark, the 3DMark Port Royal.
Microsoft demolishes Redmond Vole Hill
Modernising Redmond
Software King of the World Microsoft has started demolishing 13 buildings connected to its Redmond Volehill sending the little voles scurrying into temporary accommodation.
Windows 10 finally beats Windows 7
Took three years
More than three years after its release, Windows 10 has passed Windows 7 in market share.
Facebook gave data to Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and the Royal Bank of Canada
Considered them exempt from privacy rules
Facebook documents, found by the New York Times, show that the social network considered Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, and the Royal Bank of Canada business partners and effectively exempted them from its privacy rules.