Microsoft pumps the brakes on hiring
Microsoft is pulling back on hiring quotas for its Windows, Office and Teams chat and conferencing software groups. The company is apparently readjusting staffing needs...
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Microsoft security vulnerabilities drop after five-year rise
While elevated privilege attacks remain a critical security concern when using Microsoft products, a new report says that the raw number of vulnerabilities is dropping....
Hey Microsoft! Is anyone there listening?
Microsoft, we need to talk. Lately, you’ve been doing things with your desktop software that make me question whether you’re really listening to your customers....
May’s Patch Tuesday updates make urgent patching a must
This past week’s Patch Tuesday started with 73 updates, but ended up (so far) with three revisions and a late addition (CVE-2022-30138) for a total...
When humans make tech mistakes
We often think vendors are perfect. They have backups. They have redundancy. They have experts who know exactly how to deploy solutions without fail. And then...
Microsoft to kill Patch Tuesday for some enterprise users
Microsoft is planning to release a new tool that will automate the patch management process, all but eliminating Patch Tuesdays for many organizations. The company’s...
April’s Patch Tuesday: a lot of large, diverse and urgent updates
This week’s Patch Tuesday release was huge, diverse, risky, and urgent, with late update arrivals for Microsoft browsers (CVE-2022-1364) and two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows...
More than half of PCs can’t upgrade to Windows 11 — report
Data released today by IT asset management platform provider Lansweeper indicates that upgrades to Windows 11 have almost tripled over the past three months, but the...
What to do about IE and .NET?
It looks as if Internet Explorer (IE) will soon be gone from our PCs and .NET 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1 will drop out of support...
Microsoft, its partners, and the ‘last-mile problem’
Microsoft has always had an interesting relationship with its channel partners. For many years, there has been a bit of a demilitarized relationship between it...