Microsoft continues growth
Has Wall Street in its hands
Software King of the World Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profit that beat Wall Street expectations, driven by the first acceleration of Azure cloud computing revenue growth in eight quarters amid a pitched battle with Amazon.com cloud unit.
Dead Windows 7 gets another security patch
To fix a borked wallpaper job
Microsoft has issued a surprise patch for Windows 7 after saying it would never ever do that again.
Here is the strange case of a Microsoft subsidiary
Worthless and then suddenly worth $30.4 billion
After nearly 12 years the IRS can start to wrap up its tax audit of Software King of the World Microsoft connected to the strange case of the Puerto Rico subsidiary.
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.