Slashdot Items Tagged "microsoft"

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Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:04PM Microsoft Excel copies one of Google Sheets' handiest features
Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:43AM Microsoft Says Attackers Are Hacking Energy Grids By Exploiting Decades-Old Software
Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:54PM Amazon and Microsoft Products Star in 2022 Hour of Code Tutorials
Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:57PM Microsoft CLDAP Service Fuels Massive DDoSes
Monday July 20, 2020 @04:44AM What Happened When Microsoft Analyzed Its Own Remote Work Patterns?
Sunday July 12, 2020 @01:16PM iPhone User Sues Microsoft's LinkedIn For Spying Through Apple's 'Clipboard'
Friday July 03, 2020 @01:23PM Microsoft Announces New Windows 10 Start Menu Design, Updated Alt-Tab
Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:13PM Microsoft Is Adding Linux, Android, and Firmware Protections To Windows
Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:53AM Should Microsoft Release an Edgebook?
Friday June 19, 2020 @02:58PM Chrome Might Not Eat All Your RAM After Adopting This Windows Feature
Saturday June 13, 2020 @12:11AM Windows 10's Latest Updates Are Causing Havoc On Printers
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:35AM Microsoft Now Credits Maker of Package Manager it 'Copied' -- But Offers No Apology
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:20AM Thousands of Enterprise Systems Infected by New Blue Mockingbird Malware Gang
Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:17AM Munich Says It's Now Shifting Back From Microsoft to Open Source Software -- Again
Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:14PM Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365
Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:49PM How Microsoft Fought the 'ILOVEYOU' Virus 20 Years Ago
Monday May 04, 2020 @05:44AM Beware of Emails Impersonating 'Microsoft Teams' Notifications
Monday May 04, 2020 @01:44AM 20 Years Later, Creator of World's First Major Computer Virus Located in Manila
Sunday April 26, 2020 @01:33AM Some Windows 10 Users Complain Newest Update Is Deleting Their Files
Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:23AM Is Microsoft sabotaging Windows 10?
Sunday April 05, 2020 @02:15AM Attack Campaign Hits Thousands of MS-SQL Servers For Two Years
Monday March 16, 2020 @03:54PM Windows 10 Now Runs on 1 Billion Devices
Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:33AM Almost Half of Connected Medical Devices Are Vulnerable To Hackers Exploiting BlueKeep
Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:12PM Data Protection Authority Investigates Avast for Selling Users' Browsing History
Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:05PM Windows 7 bug prevents users from shutting down or rebooting computers
Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:18AM Ransomware Installs Gigabyte Driver To Kill Antivirus Products
Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:58AM Microsoft Teams Went Down After Microsoft Forgot To Renew a Critical Certificate
Saturday January 04, 2020 @02:04AM Company Shuts Down Because of Ransomware, Leaves 300 Without Jobs Just Before Holidays
Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:11PM How Classroom Technology is Holding Students Back
Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:23PM Microsoft Releases a List of Deprecated Windows 10 Features
Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:27AM Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough
Monday November 04, 2019 @01:24AM A Widespread BlueKeep 'Exploit' Is Targetting Unpatched Windows 7/XP Computers
Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:10PM US Air Force Inks Deal With Raytheon On Windows 10 Support For ARSE
Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:50PM Indian Nuke Plant's Network Reportedly Hit By Malware Tied To North Korea
Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:48AM EU Data Watchdog Raises Concerns Over Microsoft Contracts
Saturday October 05, 2019 @01:43PM Blocking Research With China Would 'Hurt', Microsoft Boss Says
Thursday August 15, 2019 @01:47AM June Windows Security Patch Broke Many EMF Files
Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:44AM Vulnerability in Microsoft CTF Protocol Goes Back To Windows XP
Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:50PM Google Discloses 20-Year-Old Unpatched Flaw Affecting All Versions of Windows
Saturday August 03, 2019 @01:04AM GermanWiper Ransomware Hits Germany Hard, Destroys Files, Asks For Ransom
Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:53AM It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments
Friday July 26, 2019 @12:53AM Louisiana Governor Declares State Emergency After Local Ransomware Outbreak
Wednesday July 24, 2019 @02:56PM Microsoft Reveals New Windows 10 Start Menu in Accidental Internal Leak
Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:37AM Skype Snap App Remains Hopelessly Outdated
Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:46AM Choice To Pay Ransomware Might Be Simpler Than You'd Think
Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:27AM Florida City Fires IT Employee After Paying Ransom Demand Last Week
Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:05PM Florida City Pays $600,000 To Ransomware Gang To Have Its Data Back
Saturday June 15, 2019 @01:46AM Avast and AVG Are Causing Firefox Users To Lose Saved Passwords
Monday June 03, 2019 @12:33AM Should Companies Abandon Their Password Expiration Policies?
Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:15PM Microsoft Word's New AI Function Will Correct Politically Incorrect Writing
Saturday June 01, 2019 @02:03AM Microsoft Warns 1 Million Computers Are Still Vulnerable To Major Windows Security Exploit
Friday May 31, 2019 @12:34AM Most Windows 10 Users Are Running the Update From Over a Year Ago
Friday May 31, 2019 @12:34AM Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform App Dream Is Dead and Buried
Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:49AM Chinese Military To Replace Windows OS Amid Fears of US Hacking
Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:33AM In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc
Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:50AM Microsoft Is Putting the Sexy Into Unsexy Software
Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:38AM Hackers Are Holding Baltimore's Government Computers Hostage
Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:53AM Microsoft Open-Sources a Crucial Algorithm Behind Its Bing Search Services
Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:47AM Microsoft Patches 'Wormable' Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003
Friday May 03, 2019 @06:30AM Dell Laptops and PCs Vulnerable To Remote Hijacks
Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:42AM Mysterious Hacker Has Been Selling Windows 0-Days To APT Groups For Three Years
Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:41AM Windows Server Hosting Provider Still Down a Week After Ransomware Attack
Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:32AM Microsoft Outlook Email Breach Targeted Cryptocurrency Users
Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:28AM Scranos Rootkit Expands Operations From China To the Rest of the World
Monday April 15, 2019 @07:41AM Internet Explorer Exploit Steals Data From Windows Users-- Even If They Never Use Internet Explorer
Friday April 12, 2019 @03:12PM Microsoft Publishes SECCON Framework For Securing Windows 10
Friday April 12, 2019 @07:32AM Microsoft Publishes SECCON Framework for Securing Windows 10
Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:45AM Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds
Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:35AM London's BT Tower Broadcasted Windows 7 Error Message Over the Weekend
Monday April 08, 2019 @12:32AM Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux?
Monday March 25, 2019 @03:18PM Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates To Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:46AM Pwn2Own Competitors Crack Tesla, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 10
Monday March 18, 2019 @06:12PM Google, Microsoft Work Together For a Year To Figure Out New Type of Windows Flaw
Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:33PM Are Large Cloud Providers a Threat To Open Source Vendors?
Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:15PM Microsoft releases Application Guard extension for Chrome and Firefox
Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:35AM Microsoft is Creating Windows Lite For dual-screen and Chromebook-like Devices, Report Says
Monday March 04, 2019 @01:27AM The Washington Post Decries 'Toxicity' in Videogames
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:30PM Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:05PM Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs
Friday February 01, 2019 @01:36AM Many Windows 10 Users Unable To Connect To Windows Update Service
Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:33AM New Phobos Ransomware Exploits Weak Security To Hit Targets Around the World
Wednesday December 26, 2018 @04:37AM Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable
Friday December 21, 2018 @01:53PM Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day
Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:28AM Bing recommends piracy tutorial when searching for Office 2019
Tuesday November 27, 2018 @01:41AM Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General
Monday November 26, 2018 @01:32AM Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant?
Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:41PM Dutch government report says Microsoft Office telemetry collection breaks GDPR
Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:31AM Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing?
Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:32AM WannaCry is Still Dominating Ransomware
Monday November 05, 2018 @09:24AM Microsoft Working On Porting Sysinternals To Linux
Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:58AM Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular?
Monday October 29, 2018 @08:23AM Windows Defender Becomes First Antivirus To Run Inside A Sandbox
Monday October 29, 2018 @01:36AM New Zealand Chooses Google Chromebooks Over Microsoft Windows 10 For Education
Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:29AM New Windows Zero-Day Bug Helps Delete Any File, Exploit Available
Monday October 22, 2018 @01:19PM Microsoft's Problem Isn't How Often it Updates Windows -- It's How It Develops It
Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:15PM Latest Windows 10 Update Has Yet Another File-Managing Issue
Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:22PM Samsung Announces Galaxy Book 2, a 2-in-1 Windows 10 S Hybrid With Gigabit LTE and 20-Hour Battery Life
Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:53PM Researcher Finds Simple Way of Backdooring Windows PCs and Nobody Notices for Ten Months
Sunday October 14, 2018 @02:34PM Patent Filings Reveal New Details About Microsoft's Vision For a Foldable, Dual-Screen Surface Device
Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:28AM Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug
Monday October 08, 2018 @12:57PM Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
Sunday October 07, 2018 @03:07PM Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows?
Saturday October 06, 2018 @01:24PM Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October Update
Saturday October 06, 2018 @04:40AM Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October Update (Version 1809)
Friday October 05, 2018 @01:45PM Windows 10 October 2018 Update is Deleting User Data For Many
Wednesday October 03, 2018 @10:40AM Former Students Say Steve Wozniak's $13,200 Coding Bootcamp Is 'Broken' and Sometimes Links To Wikipedia
Sunday September 30, 2018 @11:35AM Windows May Be Storing All Your Email and Docs as Unencrypted Plaintext
Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:22AM Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year In a Row
Monday September 24, 2018 @02:50PM Despite Outrage From Users, Microsoft Continues To Install Bloatware Applications Onto Every Windows 10 PC
Monday September 24, 2018 @11:00AM Bill Gates Argues 'Supply and Demand' Doesn't Apply To Software
Friday September 21, 2018 @12:54PM 'It Just Seems That Nobody is Interested in Building Quality, Fast, Efficient, Lasting, Foundational Stuff Anymore'
Thursday September 20, 2018 @12:29AM 'WaitList.dat' Windows File May Be Secretly Hoarding Your Passwords, Emails
Sunday September 16, 2018 @02:13AM Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email?
Sunday September 16, 2018 @01:51AM Does LinkedIn Suck?
Tuesday August 14, 2018 @07:07AM AI Identifies Heat-Resistant Coral Reefs In Indonesia
Sunday August 12, 2018 @01:42AM World's Largest Chip Maker Will Lose $250M For Not Patching Windows 7 Computers
Monday August 06, 2018 @01:41AM Chip Giant TSMC Struggles With Virus Infections at its Factories
Saturday August 04, 2018 @02:26PM Corporate America Cools On Blockchain. Gartner Sees 'Disconnect Between Hype and Reality'
Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:03PM Computerworld: An open letter to Microsoft management re: Windows updating
Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:52AM SamSam Ransomware Crew Made Nearly $6 Million From Ransom Payments
Friday July 27, 2018 @01:02AM Microsoft Says Price Increases Coming For Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise Users
Friday July 27, 2018 @01:01AM Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software
Thursday July 26, 2018 @01:05PM Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying
Wednesday July 11, 2018 @12:23AM DOD Seeks Classification 'Clippy' To Help Classify Data, Control Access
Wednesday July 04, 2018 @12:29AM Malware Authors Seem Intent on Weaponizing Windows SettingContent-ms Files
Friday June 29, 2018 @02:12AM All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can't Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected
Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:28AM Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Use Design To Trick You Into Handing Over Your Data, Report Warns
Tuesday June 12, 2018 @03:24PM Carmel, Libra, and Andromeda Are the Next Wave of Surface Devices: Report
Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:34AM Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random
Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:07AM Microsoft Adds Post-Quantum Cryptography to an OpenVPN Fork
Friday June 01, 2018 @12:05AM Dell is Reportedly Working on a Dual-Screen Windows ARM Device
Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:34AM Windows Server 2016 Has an Update Problem, Users Say
Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:24PM Microsoft Also Has An AI Bot That Makes Phone Calls To Humans
Tuesday May 22, 2018 @06:34AM Microsoft to Block Flash in Office 365 Starting January 2019
Saturday May 12, 2018 @07:24AM Microsoft To Replace Surface Pro 4 Tablets Affected By Screen Flickering
Wednesday May 09, 2018 @01:29PM Multiple OS Vendors Release Security Patches After Misinterpreting Intel Docs
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @11:22AM Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript Functions in Excel
Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:35PM Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update?
Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:30AM Unable to sign out from 'portal.office.com' is not considered a security issue
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:42PM Researcher Finds a Way to Bypass Meltdown Patches on Windows 10
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:07PM Google Chrome is Freezing Intermittently With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Users Say
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:31AM FTC Gives Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo 30 Days To Get Rid of Illegal Warranty-Void-if-Removed Stickers
Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:22AM Code Published for Triggering a BSOD on Windows Computers -- Even If They're Locked
Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:06AM PoC Code Published for Triggering an Instant BSOD on All Recent Windows Versions
Monday April 23, 2018 @03:09PM Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy
Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:23PM Microsoft Ports Edge Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome
Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:14PM One Laptop Per Child's $100 Laptop Was Going To Change the World -- Then it All Went Wrong
Sunday April 15, 2018 @07:56AM Microsoft Engineer Charged in Reveton Ransomware Case
Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:12PM You Think Discovering a Computer Virus Is Hard? Try Naming One
Wednesday April 11, 2018 @01:58PM Microsoft Removes Antivirus Registry Key Check for All Windows Versions
Friday April 06, 2018 @12:34AM Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole In Windows Defender
Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:35AM Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown Fixes From January and February Made PCs More Insecure
Wednesday March 28, 2018 @08:43AM Meltdown Patch Opened Bigger Security Hole on Windows 7
Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:34PM Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks With Cortana Voice Commands
Monday February 26, 2018 @01:50AM Hackers Are Selling Legitimate Code-signing Certificates To Evade Malware Detection
Friday February 23, 2018 @01:33PM US Border Officials Haven't Properly Verified Visitor Passports For More Than a Decade Due To Improper Software
Friday February 16, 2018 @02:51PM Google Exposes How Malicious Sites Can Exploit Microsoft Edge
Friday February 16, 2018 @02:30AM Windows 10 Compatibility Issues Forcing US Air Force To Scrap a Significant Number of Computers
Friday February 16, 2018 @02:26AM Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:36AM Skype Can't Fix a Nasty Security Bug Without a Massive Code Rewrite
Saturday February 10, 2018 @03:03AM 51 Percent of Financial Services Companies Believe Existing Tech is Holding Them Back
Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:25PM Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:53PM Now Meltdown Patches Are Making Industrial Control Systems Lurch
Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:16PM Intel Says Chip-Security Fixes Leave PCs No More Than 10% Slower
Monday January 08, 2018 @02:02PM Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre patch is bricking some AMD PCs
Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:04PM Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6
Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:51AM Kinect Is Really Dead Now, Basically
Sunday December 31, 2017 @04:05PM Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:22PM Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:39AM Beware: 'Digmine' Cryptocurrency Bot Is Spreading Via Facebook Messenger
Monday December 18, 2017 @09:03AM Microsoft Disables Word DDE Feature to Prevent Further Malware Attacks
Friday December 15, 2017 @07:18AM Microsoft Considers Adding Python as an Official Scripting Language to Excel
Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:44AM Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes?
Saturday December 09, 2017 @03:48PM 'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions
Friday December 08, 2017 @06:31AM "Process Doppelgänging" Attack Works on All Windows Versions
Sunday December 03, 2017 @08:00AM Is Open Source Innovation Now All About Vendor On-Ramps?
Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:49PM Microsoft's Edge Browser Now Generally Available For iOS, Android
Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:24AM Windows 10 Now on 600 Million Active Devices
Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:22PM Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks
Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:13PM Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
Monday November 13, 2017 @06:58PM All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly
Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:27PM Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs
Monday November 06, 2017 @06:56PM Microsoft Releases Standards for Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices
Friday November 03, 2017 @04:05PM Microsoft Quietly Announces End of Last Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer
Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:04PM Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes
Saturday October 28, 2017 @06:03AM NotPetya Outbreak Left Merck Short of HPV Vaccine Gardasil
Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:27PM The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day
Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:33AM Traditional PC Sales Continue To Slide
Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:35PM Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:29PM Microsoft Surface Book 2 Puts Desktop Brains in a Laptop Body
Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:14AM Dutch Privacy Regulator Says Windows 10 Breaks the Law
Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:13AM Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency, Researchers Reveal
Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:50AM Windows 10 Update Removes Windows Media Player
Monday October 09, 2017 @12:43AM Microsoft Develops New Programming Language For Quantum Computers
Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:22PM Microsoft Brings Edge To Android and IOS
Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:38AM Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years?
Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:06PM New 'Illusion Gap' Attack Bypasses Windows Defender Scans
Sunday October 01, 2017 @02:53PM Microsoft Explains Why Edge Has So Few Extensions
Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:09AM New "Illusion Gap" Attack Bypasses Windows Defender Scans
Monday September 25, 2017 @02:40PM Apple Replaces Bing With Google as Search Engine For Siri and Spotlight