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SCARY: “Atom Bomb” Windows Security Hole said to be Unfixable

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Atom Bombing Windows security flaw

Windows has an unfixable security flaw. That’s the frightening conclusion of this researcher, who says he can inject code—at will—into browsers and other Windows apps. It affects all versions of Windows released in the past 16 years, he says. And it can’t be patched, without breaking legitimate desktop apps. It could be bad for containerized server workloads, too…

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Microsoft Surface Studio Dials it up to 11, as Apple Weeps

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Microsoft Surface Studio Windows 10

Microsoft launched its Surface Studio all-in-one desktop at the Windows 10 event yesterday. Here’s what people are saying. Just don’t mention the iMac. In today’s IT Newspro, we mention it once, but we think we got away with it…

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Microsoft claims “Breakthrough” in Speech Recognition — “Human Parity”

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Microsoft speech recognition

Microsoft Research says it’s made a major breakthrough in converting human speech to text. Recognising continuous, conversational speech is really hard to do accurately, but Redmond reports it can do it as well as actual people can. The researchers claim their technology makes far fewer mistakes. That’s a bold assertion, given the 40-odd-year history of […]

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DoJ v Microsoft: Feds Still Want to Snoop on Irish Cloud

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Microsoft DoJ Ireland

Microsoft’s fight to keep its European customers’ data private is back in the news. The U.S. Justice Department wants a court to revisit a ruling preventing the government from reading email stored in an Irish data center. Not only is the data stored outside the U.S., but the owner of the data isn’t a U.S. […]

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Microsoft HoloLens is Now in These 8 Countries (but Still Super Spendy)

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Microsoft HoloLens: Jobe horrified to learn that furriners can now buy it

Microsoft HoloLens is now available in six more countries. Redmond wants more businesses and developers to get going with its augmented-reality Windows headset. As well as the U.S. and Canada, it’s now in four European countries and two down under. That’s where Microsoft is targeting developers next. You can get it in November, if you pre-order now…

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Microsoft Cloud AI Tests Turing Institute — Data Science Meets Machine Learning

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Microsoft Satya Nadella cloud AI Turing Institute

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is talking up the company’s cloud chops in artificial intelligence. Azure and Office 365 are chock-full of machine-learning facilities, he says. Over the past few days, he’s appeared on stage in Dublin and London, preaching the gospel of AI and FPGAs. And now Microsoft’s donated Azure credits to a UK research consortium that specializes in data science…

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Microsoft TypeScript 2.0 Language — Ready for Prime Time in IT?

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Microsoft TypeScript 2.0

Microsoft updates TypeScript language to 2.0. It’s an open-source superset of JavaScript, but said to be easier to use, more productive, create more reliable code, and compile down to standard JavaScript. Version 2.0 adds features such as non-nullable types and expanded control flow analysis. Plus tagged unions, the never type, this types for functions, and of course glob support…

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Microsoft Opens “Cloud Germany” with 2 New DCs — Azure und 365 über alles [updated]

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Microsoft Cloud Germany

Microsoft’s cloud: ready for Germany. Two new data centers now open for Azure IaaS/PaaS, with Office and Dynamics SaaS coming soon. Germany is well known for its strict data-privacy laws. And it’s one of the largest economies in the European Union. So it was a sensible location choice after the UK DCs opened earlier this month…

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Microsoft Azure Outage — Was it a DNS DDoS?

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Azure down

Azure recently experienced a nasty outage, lasting several hours. It seems to have been centered around DNS, but had wide side effects. Microsoft’s cloud platform took something of a beating. By the sound of it, a DDoS could have been to blame. Or not. Redmond isn’t saying…

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Microsoft Usurps Oracle and Salesforce.com — Inks Huge Dynamics Deal at HP Inc

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Microsoft Dynamics at HP; beats Oracle and Salesforce.com

HP buys 26,500 seats of Microsoft Dynamics, displacing Salesforce and Oracle. It’s a huge deal, cementing Microsoft as the SaaS leader, according to analysts. As goes SaaS, so goes IaaS and PaaS? Scott Guthrie certainly thinks so, arguing that only Amazon stands between Microsoft and the cloud top spot. Who’d a thunk it, just a few years ago?

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