Tag: Microsoft

November 29, 2016

Microsoft’s Azure Stack is a new hybrid cloud platform product that allows you to bring nearly full public Azure functionality to your own on-premises data centers. So you get the power of the cloud and control of your database. It […]

November 7, 2016

The burden of Microsoft’s efforts to secure Windows 10 is now falling on PC, tablet, and smartphone makers. Microsoft is making a hardware-based security feature called TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 a minimum requirement on most Windows 10 devices. Starting […]

October 4, 2016

What percentage of the PCs in your business or organization have all of the required patches for the operating system and application software? I’ll bet you are tempted to say 100%, since you probably assume that your workstations are set […]

September 15, 2016

Microsoft released one of its biggest security updates this year, fixing 50 vulnerabilities in its products and 26 more in Flash Player, which is bundled with its Edge browser. The patches are split into 14 security bulletins, including the one […]

July 6, 2016

Microsoft stepped up its battle with the armada of mobile messaging apps on Tuesday, announcing that Skype users can now send files to each other without the recipient needing to be online. That means a user could tweak a presentation […]

June 7, 2016

It’s bad news for businesses. Hackers have launched large-scale attacks that are capable of bypassing the security protections added by Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a tool whose goal is to stop software exploits. Security researchers from FireEye have […]

April 8, 2016

The non-profit Open Networking Foundation has announced that its annual software-defined networking (SDN) interoperability event, dubbed AppFest 2016, will be held in May in New Hampshire and will feature a Community Day intended to expand ONF’s reach beyond members. The […]

March 28, 2016

A new ransomware program written in Windows PowerShell is being used in attacks against enterprises, including health care organizations, researchers warn. PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework that’s included in Windows and is commonly used by systems […]

March 22, 2016

Engineers from some of the world’s largest email service providers have banded together to improve the security of email traffic traversing the Internet. Devised by engineers from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Comcast, LinkedIn and 1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology, […]

March 4, 2016

Enterprise Connect, the industries largest business communications show, gets underway next week in Orlando. While the themes for the event have changed over the years, one that has not in over a decade is how to get Microsoft and Cisco […]

March 1, 2016

Microsoft wants to help protect companies from hack attacks, and it’s introducing a new Windows 10 feature soon to improve the operating system’s security capabilities. Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is aimed at helping businesses deal with serious threats by using […]

February 15, 2016

If you want to work at Microsoft, then you likely have visitedMicrosoft Careers. The backend database for the mobile version of Microsoft’s jobs portal was misconfigured, exposing user information and leaving the site vulnerable to attack. Security researcher Chris Vickery […]

February 4, 2016

Microsoft’s Power BI data visualization service is making it possible for companies to share their business information with the world in an interactive format. On Tuesday, Microsoft launched the beta version of a new publish to web feature that lets […]

February 2, 2016

A few years ago, Microsoft switched from per-processor to per-core licensing in SQL Server, and it’s about to do the same with Windows Server 2016. You may not be thrilled with the results. “Microsoft’s auditors likely will have a field […]

January 22, 2016

Skype is adding a new default security feature primarily to protect gamers from their overheated rivals. The Microsoft-owned service recently announced it would start hiding users’ IP addresses by default in the latest update to Skype. Previously, a Skype user’s […]