Will Microsoft stop updating its Security Essentials on Jan. 14? Are you sure?
You know that businesses will be able to pay for Win7 security patches after Win7 hits end-of-life on Jan. 14. Many of Microsoft’s Extended Security...
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IDG Contributor Network: Just a few more updates for 2019 makes for a light December Patch Tuesday
December brings peace and joy – well, maybe – but at least Microsoft has provided us with a relatively easy Patch Tuesday update. There is...
Microsoft begins Windows 10’s 1809-to-1909 compulsory upgrade
Microsoft has begun forcibly upgrading Windows 10 PCs running version 1809 with the latest, the November 2019 Update, aka 1909, which the company launched less...
Office 365 on Windows 7 gets free patches until 2023
Customers who continue to power PCs with Windows 7 after the operating system’s expiration date will be given one more update to Office 365 ProPlus...
Microsoft to end updates to Windows 7’s free AV software, Security Essentials
Microsoft will not provide new malware signatures for its home-grown Security Essentials software after it retires Windows 7 in five weeks. “No, your Windows 7...
Patch Tuesday’s coming! Protect your machine by pausing updates
The past couple of months have gone reasonably well in the Automatic Update world — we saw a convincing Keystone Kops rendition in September, which...
IDG Contributor Network: Amazon and Microsoft moves indicate that hardware OEMs may become obsolete
[Disclosure: Qualcomm and Microsoft are clients of the author.] I’m at the Qualcomm 5G Summit this week and according to both them and Cisco, next...
Microsoft’s Intune is now Endpoint Manager: What is it, and how well does the UEM tool work?
As businesses look to give employees flexible work environments, whether on desktops or mobile devices, in the office or out in the field, IT shops...
Microsoft’s JEDI contract move: Those are not the cloud providers you’re looking for
Microsoft surprised most of the tech and political world when it was awarded a 10-year, $10 billion contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for...
Windows by the numbers: Windows 10 hits late wall, stalls
Microsoft customers last month pressed “pause” in their migrations from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as the adoption of the latter stalled for the first...