Microsoft Windows software
Microsoft Windows is the most successful and ubiquitous enterprise software product ever created, and its future developments affect nearly every IT manager in some way. Browse all the latest news and analysis about Microsoft Windows software and the issues around buying, implementing and delivering benefits from Windows.
It’s complicated: how data integration lies at the heart of evermore complex data architectures
Data integration and preparation remains the knotty problem at the heart of many data management and business intelligence programmes. Demands on IT leaders in user organisations – especially large, complex ones – are and will continue to be equally complex and pressing as boards look to get business value from data. Read more in this e-guide.
News : Microsoft Windows software
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October 14, 2020
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Oct'20
Microsoft fixes 87 bugs in October 2020 Patch Tuesday
Smaller October Patch Tuesday update includes fixes for critical bugs in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019
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September 29, 2020
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Sep'20
Organisations locked out by Azure AD crash
The Azure Active Directory was unavailable for a few hours in the evening of 28 September, preventing many from accessing MS online services
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September 24, 2020
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Race to patch as Microsoft confirms Zerologon attacks in the wild
Don’t be the organisation that made the headlines because it failed to patch. Microsoft says it is seeing cyber attacks ramping up around the Zerologon CVE-2020-1472 bug
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September 09, 2020
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September’s Patch Tuesday heavy on RCE vulnerabilities
Microsoft’s September update contains patches for 129 common vulnerabilities and exposures, including a high number of remote code execution issues
In Depth : Microsoft Windows software
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Microsoft's history and future strategy beyond 2020
Microsoft's history over the past 20 years is marked by the pivot from closed software models to support for open source and cloud. Quantum computing will shape the next decades. Continue Reading
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Microsoft’s road to multicloud support
From Microsoft’s perspective, multicloud is more about portability than resiliency Continue Reading
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Microsoft’s modern desktop management
How cloud services make the critical business of keeping Windows 10 patched and up to date easier for administrators Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Microsoft Windows software
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Office productivity in a post Coronavirus world
One of the changes that has come out of the Coronavirus pandemic is that people are learning to work from home. This is more than IT providing remote and cloud-based access to business ... Continue Reading
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Be Prepared For Infrastructure Change...
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the time for digital transformation to happen has started to hit crunch time, and then some. I recently reported on an IT event in Central Londinium, an ... Continue Reading
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Windows 7: Don’t cry for me
It may have gone unnoticed with the January 14 end of support deadline for Windows 7, but Microsoft’s 10 year old OS, had one last Patch Tuesday update. And , surprise, surprise, this included a ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Microsoft Windows software
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Tips for minimising the impact of the Microsoft Office price rise
Microsoft has “adjusted” prices with Office 2019, making it more expensive to buy on-premise versions of its products Continue Reading
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The high price of not understanding how automation works with existing software licences
Businesses must check their software licences before they introduce robotic process automation or they risk breaking the rules Continue Reading
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Driving digital productivity in the UK
There is a need for British businesses to improve their adoption of digital technologies Continue Reading
Videos : Microsoft Windows software
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Lauri Love: how reformed hackers halted the WannaCry virus
Lauri Love presents a compelling story of the WannaCry malware that nearly brought down the NHS, and the behind the scenes work of former hackers, and security researchers that helped to prevent lives being lost. Love is facing extradition to the US after allegedly taking part in a hacking protest over the death of internet pioneer Aaron Swartz, who faced jail for using a hidden computer to downloading academic journals at MIT.
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Locked in by choice: Why the Italian Defence Department is switching to open source office
The Italian Defence Departnment plans to replace Microsoft Office with an open source equivalent on 100,000 desktops
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Locked in by choice: Why Munich is dropping open source for Microsoft
Munich has saved €11m by moving to open source. Now, in a move seen as highly political, lord mayor Dieter Reiter is planning a return to Microsoft
