Microsoft

Customers try Microsoft’s new operating system “Windows Vista” with some 200 PCs at the WPC computer trade show in Tokyo, October 18, 2006.
IT Strategy

Microsoft Vista was a stumble that exposed weakness

“It was an example of what not to do,” one critic tells IT Brew.

Eoin Higgins
Microsoft's Greek headquarters with a banner that says "Windows 10 / Do Great Things".
Software

Want extended security updates for Windows 10? It’ll cost you

Receiving security updates past Windows 10’s end-of-life date isn’t cheap.

Tom McKay
Programmers looking at and examining lines of code.
Software

AI helps Python jump over JavaScript on GitHub, report finds

GitHub’s Martin Woodward tells IT Brew AI tools are helping diversify the site.

Tom McKay
A 1990s PC on a couch.
Software

Microsoft’s new Windows App will replace the Remote Desktop client

Microsoft announced that Windows App will simplify expanding RDP access, but watch out for RDP’s perennial security issues.

Tom McKay
People walking outside a Microsoft building with Chinese characters on the facade.
Cybersecurity

Microsoft is asking China-based AI employees to relocate

Most employees that Microsoft extended the offer to work in machine learning and cloud computing, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Amanda Florian
An illustration of a white window with blue paned glass in front of a yellow background. The top four panes are made to look like Microsoft's slanted, rectangular Windows logo, and peeping out through the open part of the window is a swirly blue background.
IT Strategy

German state is tired of paying for Microsoft licenses, adopts Linux

Schleswig-Holstein is ditching Microsoft in favor of Linux, citing security, cost, and privacy concerns.

Tom McKay

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