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Redmond betting that smarter Espresso machines mean happier customers and more efficient employees
Microsoft is betting big that smarter devices can mean better business, … Continue reading Microsoft acquired an Italian firm to help it stitch together the Internet of Things
Oracle’s newest patch batch dropped yesterday, and it marks the first time the company has scored the vulnerabilities covered under the Common Vulnerability Scoring Standard (CVSS) 3.0 (previous patches used CVSS 2.0).
Covered products include Oracle Database Server, Java, and MySQL.
Continue reading Oracle’s security update covers 136 vulnerabilities across 49 products
The principle of least privilege, as applied to Active Directory (AD), means that users should be granted only the minimum permissions necessary to complete their job functions. Here’s how you can work towards that a little more easily with PowerShel… Continue reading PowerShell: Granting Computer Join Permissions
Why BadLock might not be the worst in this batch
Continue reading Microsoft April 2016 Patch Tuesday comes with 6 Critical, 7 Important fixes
Microsoft and others predict automated assistants are the way of the future. Now they have their own app store
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has made clear: One … Continue reading Need to buy a bot? There’s now an app store for that
Microsoft’s betting big that your enterprise will buy into the cloud — and it wants an ecosystem to get you there
As companies transform into digital organizations, the role of the IT department is being redefined. If business units are taking a larger role in technology decisions and employees are using their own devices, where exactly does IT fit in?
read more Continue reading Finding Balance in IT
Finally, the year of Linux on the (Windows) desktop
The Year of Linux on the Desktop became a running joke about a decade ago in the tech community, but now it might finally happen, thanks to some help from an unlikely source: Microsoft.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that at Build, Microsoft and Ubuntu will announce a partnership to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, not just as a virtual machine but actually integrated into Windows 10’s Linux subsystems. It’s likely to be a fan for web developers used to the full Linux shell but who want to have access to everything .NET offers.
As Vaughan-Nichols reports:
Continue reading Report: Microsoft and Canonical bringing Ubuntu to Windows 10 at Build
A list of some of the top books on the history of Microsoft. What are your favorites?
As Build 2016 kicks off, we’re taking a look at the changing face of Microsoft this m… Continue reading Our favorite books on Microsoft