Windows Stories for 2017

Microsoft's Fall Creators Update Already on More Than Half of All Windows 10 PCs 140
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
More Unix Tools Coming To Windows 10 123
Security Firm Keeper Sues News Reporter Over Vulnerability Story 73
Windows 10 Facial Recognition Feature Can Be Bypassed with a Photo 95
Microsoft Removes Google's Chrome Installer From the Windows Store 124
Microsoft Releases a Preview of OpenSSH Client and Server For Windows 10 144
Windows 10 Bundled a Password Manager with a Security Flaw 48
Microsoft's 'Malware Protection Engine' Had A Remote Code Execution Flaw 54
'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions 126
ReactOS 0.4.7 Released 94
Google Wants Progressive Web Apps To Replace Chrome Apps 154
Microsoft Debuts Windows 10 on ARM; Asus and HP Unveil Laptops With 20-Hour Battery Life, Gigabit LTE 139
Lead Developer of Popular Windows Application Classic Shell Is Quitting 97
Windows 10 Now on 600 Million Active Devices 142
Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface 302
Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks 113
Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 336
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? 252
Microsoft Confirms Surface Book 2 Can't Stay Charged During Gaming Sessions 138
New Windows Search Interface Borrows Heavily From MacOS 86
Microsoft Offering Free Windows 10 Development Environment VM for a Limited Time 81
Windows 8 and Later Fail To Properly Apply ASLR 62
All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly 243
Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 544
Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop? 449
Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs 108
Microsoft Releases Standards For Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices 173
Microsoft Is Working On a Foldable Device With a Focus On Pen and Digital Ink 87
Windows 10's 'Controlled Folder Access' Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live 157
Google Says 64 Percent of Chrome Traffic On Android Now Protected With HTTPS, 75 Percent On Mac, 66 Percent On Windows 90
Microsoft Teases Multi-Day Battery Life For Upcoming ARM-Powered Windows Devices 72
Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 118
Microsoft Surface Book 2 Puts Desktop Brains in a Laptop Body 141
Microsoft's Fall Update With Redesigned Xbox Dashboard Is Now Available To All 38
Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 412
Dutch Privacy Regulator Says Windows 10 Breaks the Law 63
How Does Microsoft Avoid Being the Next IBM? 223
Microsoft May Have Price Increases in Store For Windows 10 Pro Workstation, Win 10 Downgrade Customers 210
Windows 10 Update Removes Windows Media Player 255
Mozilla To End All Firefox Support For XP, Vista In June 2018 131
HP's Spectre x360 13 Promises Up To 16 Hours of Battery Life in a Faster, Cooler Design 45
According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows 237
Microsoft Shutters Groove Music, Will Move Users To Spotify 51
New 'Illusion Gap' Attack Bypasses Windows Defender Scans 74
Richard Stallman vs. Canonical's CEO: 'Will Microsoft Love Linux to Death?' 269
Why You Shouldn't Imitate Bill Gates If You Want To Be Rich 311
Ford Is Using Microsoft's HoloLens To Design Cars In Augmented Reality 31
Bill Gates Says He's Sorry About Control-Alt-Delete 320
'Bashware' Attacks Exploit Windows 10's Subsystem for Linux 80
HP Users Complain About 10-Minute Login Lag During 'Win 10 Update' 105
BlueBorne Vulnerabilities Impact Over 5 Billion Bluetooth-Enabled Devices 121
ShadowBrokers Releases NSA UNITEDRAKE Manual That Targets Windows Machines 99
Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With An Old Windows Phone? 169
Bug In Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware 75
Chrome 61 Arrives With JavaScript Modules, WebUSB Support 115
Microsoft Extends Free Windows 10 S-To-Pro Upgrade Deadline 93
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to Arrive October 17 60
Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana Are Going To Work Together 70
New York City Cops Will Replace Their 36,000 Windows Phones With iPhones 215
Microsoft .NET Core 2.0 For Linux Released; Redhat Will Bundle Microsoft's .NET 185
Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users 200
In Defense of the Popular Framework Electron 138
We're Not Walking Away From Continuum, Says HP 44
Russian Group That Hacked DNC Used NSA Attack Code In Attack On Hotels 197
Kaspersky Drops Antitrust Complaint After Microsoft Promises To Make Changes To Windows 10 31
Microsoft Dumps Notorious Chinese Secure Certificate Vendor 57
The NSA Intercepted Microsoft's Windows Bug Reports 52
Microsoft Is Updating the Windows Console Colors For the First Time In 20 Years 142
Microsoft's Windows Phone Keyboard For the iPhone Is Dead 42
Microsoft Won't Patch 20-Yr-Old SMBv1 Vulnerability (You Should Just Turn the Service Off) 131
Microsoft's 'Windows Subsystem For Linux' Finally Leaves Beta 163
FreeBSD 11.1 Released 219
Microsoft Launches Windows Bug Bounty Program With Rewards Ranging From $500 To $250,000 34
Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support 244
Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years 388
Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs 274
Avast Now Owns CCleaner After Acquiring Piriform 101
Exploit Derived From EternalSynergy Upgraded To Target Newer Windows Versions 61
Windows 10 Creators Upgrade Cuts Support For Some Intel PCs Early 148
'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' 551
Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) for Windows Pushes What Could Be Its Last Update 139
Microsoft Yanks Three Bad Patches Of Their Last Outlook Patch 78
Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? 484
PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade 202
24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug 352
Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store 121
Microsoft Will Sell Office, Windows as a Bundle 263
Microsoft's Last 'Bug Bash' Before Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 80
WikiLeaks Unveils CIA Implants That Steal SSH Credentials From Windows, Linux PCs 140
OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives 130
OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot 162
Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think 237
France Drops Windows 10 Privacy Case After Microsoft Changes Telemetry Settings 51
India Presses Microsoft For Windows Discount in Wake of Cyber Attacks 90
The Biggest Windows 10 Shop? Microsoft Partner Accenture 40
Windows 10 Will Soon Protect Files and Folders From Ransomware 219
WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware For Tracking Windows Devices Via WiFi Networks 85
London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen 232
Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears 302
Microsoft Bringing EMET Back As a Built-In Part of Windows 10 49
Google Chrome Bests Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera In Independent Battery Life Tests 114
32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online 201
WikiLeaks Doc Dump Reveals CIA Tools For Hacking Air-Gapped PCs 74
Microsoft Claims 'No Known Ransomware' Runs on Windows 10 S. Researcher Says 'Hold My Beer' 125
Fireball Browser Hijack Impact Revised After Microsoft Analysis 10
Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users 208
How Hollywood Got Hacked: Studio at Center of Netflix Leak Breaks Silence 79
Microsoft Will Disable WannaCry Attack Vector SMBv1 Starting This Fall 73
Green Party Leaders Don't Want Windows In Munich 139
NSA Links WannaCry To North Korea 99
Oil Changes, Safety Recalls, and Software Patches 129
Microsoft Warns of 'Destructive Cyberattacks', Issues New Windows XP Patches 76
Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? 367
Tim Cook Takes Swipe at Windows During MIT Commencement 91
Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux 121
Intel Fires Warning Shot At Qualcomm and Microsoft Over Windows 10 ARM Emulation 197
WannaCry Exploit Could Infect Windows 10 52
Google Releases Chrome 59 72
Kaspersky Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft Over Disabling Its Antivirus Software 134
Microsoft Leak Reveals New Windows 10 Workstation Edition For Power Users 113
Chinese 'Fireball' Malware Infects Nearly 250 Million Computers Worldwide 66
Microsoft Accidentally Released Internal Windows 10 Development Builds 76
Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs With Gigabit LTE 102
Windows XP Computers Were Mostly Immune To WannaCry 58
Microsoft's Looking To Reboot Mobile with New Software and Hardware: Sources 114
PC Market Could Return To Growth in 2019 94
Security Analyst Concludes Windows 10 Enterprise 'Tracks Too Much' 284
In a Throwback To the '90s, NTFS Bug Lets Anyone Hang Or Crash Windows 7, 8.1 128
Windows Switch To Git Almost Complete: 8,500 Commits and 1,760 Builds Each Day 221
Intel Drops Thunderbolt 3 Royalty, Adds CPU Integration and Works Closely With Microsoft 107
Microsoft To Launch Its Netflix-Style Game Pass On June 1; Live Gold Subscribers Get Early Access 36
Chinese Giant Huawei Gets Serious About PC Business, Announces Plans For Global Expansion 53
Microsoft's New Surface Pro Features Faster Intel Kaby Lake Processor, 13.5 Hours of Battery Life 66
Microsoft Announces 'Windows 10 China Government Edition', Lets Country Use Its Own Encryption 108
Stealing Windows Credentials Using Google Chrome 53
Almost All WannaCry Victims Were Running Windows 7 123
Linux Distros Won't Run On Microsoft's Education-Focused Windows 10 S OS 115
CIA Co-Developed 'Athena' Windows Malware With US Cyber Security Company, WikiLeaks Reveals 108
French Researchers Find Last-ditch Cure To Unlock WannaCry Files 36
ReactOS 0.4.5 Released 118
Windows XP PCs Infected By WannaCry Can Be Decrypted Without Paying Ransom 60
'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' 411
Group Linked To NSA Spy Leaks Threatens Sale of New Tech Secrets 105
'Don't Tell People To Turn Off Windows Update, Just Don't' 507
Slashdot Asks: In the Wake Of Ransomware Attacks, Should Tech Companies Change Policies To Support Older OSs Indefinitely? 360
Microsoft Blasts Spy Agencies For Leaked Exploits Used By WanaDecrypt0r 324
Researchers Find New Version Of WanaDecrypt0r Ransomware Without A Kill Switch 98
Why Doesn't Harvard Want To Talk About Its Mystery Microsoft Azure Project? 51
Windows 10 On ARM Will Support x86 Apps From Outside the Store 115
New Windows Look and Feel, Neon, Is Officially the 'Microsoft Fluent Design System' 95
Apple is Bringing iTunes To the Windows Store 87
Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the Next Major Update To Desktop OS 121
Azure Goes Database Crazy With One New NoSQL, Two New SQL Services 39
Windows 10 Now On 500 Million Devices, Up By 200 Million in a Year 123
Microsoft Thinks USB-C Isn't Ready For the Mainstream 293
Microsoft Wants You To Care For Your Surface Like a 'Luxury' Handbag 83
Microsoft Is Planning To Turn Windows 10 PCs Into Amazon Echo Competitors 82
Opinion: Even if You Hate the Idea, Windows Users Should Want Windows 10 S To Succeed 259
Google Researchers Find Wormable 'Crazy Bad' Windows Exploit 74
Ask Slashdot: Is ReactOS A Serious Alternative To Windows? 236
Microsoft Tests a Secured Edge Browser For Business 66
Surface Laptop Can Be Switched To Windows 10 Pro For Free Until 2018 150
You Can't Change the Default Browser or Switch To Google Search In Windows 10 S 302
Microsoft Is Bringing Office to the Windows Store 57
Microsoft's Surface Laptop With Windows 10 S Leaks Ahead of New York Unveil 74
Neowin: Microsoft's Windows Phone Business 'Is Dead' 180
Some Of The Pentagon's Critical Infrastructure Still Runs Windows 95 And 98 152
Maybe Don't Manually Install Windows 10 Creators Update, Says Microsoft 114
Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform 135
Antivirus Webroot Deletes Windows Files, Causes Serious Problems For Users 67
NSA's DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit a 'Bloodbath' 187
Microsoft Will Block Desktop 'Office' Apps From 'Office 365' Services In 2020 217
Microsoft Improves Gmail Experience For Windows 10 Insiders, But There Are Privacy Concerns 70
Leaked Document Sheds Light On Microsoft's Chromebook Rival 91
File System Improvements To the Windows Subsystem for Linux 110
Microsoft Says It Will Release Two Feature Updates Per Year For Windows 10, Office 63
User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Updates On Windows 7 & 8.1 218
Microsoft's Rumored CloudBook Could Be Your Next Cheap Computer 206
Microsoft Confirms Only a Handful of Windows Phones Will Receive Windows 10 Creators Update 46
NSA-Leaking Shadow Brokers Just Dumped Its Most Damaging Release Yet 111
Microsoft Experimenting Tabs Experience On File Explorer, Other Apps On Windows 10 104
New Processors Are Now Blocked From Receiving Updates On Old Windows 238
Microsoft Kills Off Security Bulletins 89
Developer Publishes Patch To Enable Windows 7 and 8.1 Updates On New Hardware 50
Microsoft Ends Support For Windows Vista; Begins To Roll Out Windows 10 Creators Update 103
Microsoft Claims Windows 10 Saves Enterprises 28% More Than They Claimed Last Year 136
Microsoft's Surface Pro 5 Said To Move To Intel Kaby Lake Processors 29
WikiLeaks Reveals Grasshopper, the CIA's Windows Hacking Tool 87
Microsoft Formally Bans Emulators On Xbox, Windows 10 Download Shops 116
The Windows 10 Creators Update Is Now Available 105
Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Really Collects 286
Netflix Now Lets You Download Videos Onto Your PC 60
Android Overtakes Windows as the Internet's Most Used Operating System 138
USB Canary Sends An SMS When Someone Tinkers With Your USB Ports 40
Windows 10 Mobile Needs To Be Put Out of Its Misery 180
'Samsung Dex' Is a Galaxy S8 Dock That Turns Your Phone Into a Desktop 99
Slashdot Asks: Windows 10 Creators Update Goes Live On April 11, Will You Upgrade? 239
10 Million Insiders Test And Use Windows 10 Every Day, Says Microsoft 91
Class Action Lawsuit Launched Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrades 347
A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon 232
Microsoft Delivers Secure China-Only Cut of Windows 10 98
Popular Open-Source Audio Editor Audacity Adds Windows 10 Support, More Improvements 102
Windows 10 Will Download Some Updates Even Over a Metered Connection 327
Windows 10 UAC Bypass Uses Backup and Restore Utility 58
Microsoft Locks Ryzen, Kaby Lake Users Out of Updates On Windows 7, 8.1 419
Microsoft To End Support For Windows Vista In Less Than a Month 167
Canonical Preps Security Lifeboat, Yells: Ubuntu 12.04 Hold-Outs, Get In 88
Windows 10 Is Just 'A Vehicle For Advertisements', Argues Tech Columnist 353
Munich's IT Lead: 'No Compelling Reason' To Switch Back To Windows From Linux 203
Microsoft Admits Mistake, Pulls Problematic Windows 10 Driver 68
Microsoft Is Spamming Windows 10 File Explorer With Ads For OneDrive Storage 281
Windows Server on ARM Is Finally Happening, And It Should Worry Intel 193
Firefox 52 Is The Last Version of Firefox For Windows XP and Vista 119
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? 140
Dell Doubles Down On High-End Ubuntu Linux Laptops 128
Android is About To Eclipse Windows as the World's Most-Used Operating System 169
Windows 10 Build 15048 Has a Windows Mixed Reality Demo You Can Try 42
Third-Party Vendor Issues Temporary Patch For Windows Vulnerability 39
Apple Losing Out To Microsoft and Google in US Classrooms 130
Microsoft is Making It Easy To Stop Windows 10 Rebooting Your PC Randomly For Updates 249
AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM 118
Microsoft To Introduce a New Feature In Windows 10 Which Will Allow Users To Block Installation of Desktop Apps 307
94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights 238
Microsoft Confirms Another 2017 Update After Windows 10 Creators Update 74
Gemalto Launches eSIM Technology for Windows 10 Devices 47
EU Privacy Watchdogs Say Windows 10 Settings Still Raise Concerns 161
ZDNet: Linux 'Takes The World' While Windows Dominates The Desktop 224
Google Discloses An Unpatched Windows Bug (Again) 122
Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes 388
99.6 Percent of New Smartphones Run Android or iOS 91
Microsoft Delays February Patch Tuesday Indefinitely 88
Microsoft's Open-Source Graph Engine Takes On Neo4j 17
The City Of Munich Now Wants To Abandon Linux And Switch Back to Windows 557
Microsoft Teases Windows 10's Upcoming 'Project Neon' Design Language 139
Cortana Now Reminds You To Do the Things You Promised in Emails 134
Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 236
Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers 97
Microsoft Is Disabling Older Versions of Skype For Mac and Windows On March 1 113
Zero-Day Windows Security Flaw Can Crash Systems, Cause BSODs 64
First Screenshots of Microsoft's Windows 10 Cloud OS Leak Online 78
Windows DRM-Protected Files Used To Decloak Tor Browser Users 150
Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders 171
Tim Sweeney Dislikes Windows 10 Cloud Rumors, Calls OS 'Crush Steam Edition' 183
Google Chrome Engineer Says Windows Defender 'the Only Well Behaved Antivirus', Cites 'Tons of Empirical Data' 231
Microsoft's Coming Windows 10 Cloud Release May Have Nothing To Do With the Cloud 115
CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates 498
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says PC Market Is Finally Stabilizing 51
Microsoft Says It Is Winning Its New War Against Macs 313
Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces 489

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