Windows by the numbers: Windows 10, Windows 7 pause their ups and downs
Windows 10 took a breather in July, perhaps celebrating its fifth birthday with a little too much adult beverage and – although the share data...
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Top web browsers 2020: Firefox ends a sorta/kinda recovery as share losses return
Google’s Chrome added more to its total of utter domination last month as a small recovery by Mozilla’s Firefox screeched to a halt in July....
Despite an unexpected monkey wrench, now is the time to install the July Windows and Office patches
The folks at Microsoft have pretty much exterminated the bugs they introduced in July’s patches. The Outlook-killing bug got fixed by an emergency update to...
Microsoft Patch Alert: July 2020
July tends to be a leisurely month in Windows and Office patch land, and this one’s no exception. We had a bit of a thrill...
Microsoft previews new enterprise-only telemetry option for Windows 10
Microsoft last week launched a preview of a new enterprise-only option that blocks Windows’ telemetry from reaching Redmond’s servers. The option wasn’t given an official...
Here’s how Microsoft may slow down to only one Windows 10 upgrade a year
If Microsoft decides to release just one Windows 10 feature upgrade annually, some customers — notably consumers and small businesses running unmanaged Windows 10 Pro...
Microsoft will pitch virtualized Windows-as-a-subscription service, update and maintain VMs for customers
Microsoft may be crafting a new subscription offer for Microsoft 365 customers that will be, for all intents and purposes, a device-as-a-service minus the, well,...
Windows Update is a bifurcated mess
This week’s “Preview” patches led to some bizarre, unexplained, and self-contradictory behavior. Here’s what we’ve been able to piece together, based on what actually happened...
Which is better for collaboration – Yammer or Microsoft Teams?
Fundamentally, both Yammer and Teams (and email) are about communication – but they support different types of conversations and aim for different audiences. The choice...
Slack files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, cites anti-competitive Teams bundling
Slack has filed a complaint with the European Commission that accuses Microsoft of unfairly bundling its Teams collaboration app with its Office 365 suite. That...