Microsoft looks to give Yammer a new lease of life; can it?
While Teams may be the focal point of Microsoft’s current collaboration strategy these days, Yammer — the enterprise social network it acquired in 2012 for...
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7 things Microsoft didn’t tell us about the new Office app
Microsoft last week launched Office, a new mobile app for iOS and Android that the company slid into an already packed line-up of individual apps....
With a fix for the ‘temporary profile’ bug still elusive, Win10 1903 and 1909 customers should check Pause Updates
By now you’ve probably heard about the disappearing-profile bug in this month’s Win10 1903 and 1909 cumulative update. The buggy patch went out on Tuesday,...
The mess behind Microsoft’s yanked UEFI patch KB 4524244
Remember the warning about watching how sausage is made? This is an electronic sausage-making story with lots of dirty little bits. First, the chronology. On...
Windows as we know it is dead; what comes next?
Disclosure: Most of the vendors noted are clients of the author. Windows arose after IBM behaved very unlike itself in the 1980s as it looked...
Dump Windows 7 already! Jeez!
Why am I still writing about Windows 7? It’s dead, Jim! The tombstone reads, “June 22, 2009 – January 14, 2020.” It was a good...
Patch Tuesday’s tomorrow. Verify you have ‘Pause Updates’ enabled
Remember the frenzy after last month’s Patch Tuesday? How everybody and his twice-removed cousin — even the N forkin’ SA — told you to get patched...
Win10 Search blackout due to ‘fiber provider’ glitch? Pull the other one, Microsoft.
If you believe that yesterday’s worldwide crash of Windows 10 Search was caused by a bad third-party fiber provider, I have a bridge to sell...
Has your Win10 Search box gone black? Does Search even work?
Here’s a quick test. Fire up or reboot your Win10 machine. Click inside the Search box on the lower left. You should see something like...
Oops! Microsoft gets ‘black eye’ from Teams outage
Microsoft Teams users were unable to access the collaboration app for more than two hours Monday due to an expired authentication certificate. The outage is...