Microsoft - The Stack (Page 2)

EU says Microsoft 'possibly' tied Teams to Office suites unfairly, leaving software giant with knotty ongoing investigation

It's "a win" says Slack...prematurely

Francesca Dean June 25, 2024

MPs want to use AI tools to save themselves from onerous tasks like reading emails (Photo: James Newcombe on Unsplash)

security

UK government

News

British MPs are preparing to test Microsoft's Copilot AI - despite security fears and US Congress ban

Controversial artificial intelligence assistant will be trialled at the end of 2024, prompting warnings that it could cause "increased risk"

Jasper Hamill June 21, 2024

Microsoft updates mitigation for critical “wormable” bug

vulnerabilities

MSMQ

News

Microsoft updates mitigation for critical “wormable” bug

256,000 devices believed publicly exposed. But are MSMQ bugs really attacked in the wild?

The Stack June 17, 2024

Don't worry software engineers: Bill Gates says your job is safe

artificial intelligence

AI

LLMs

News

Don't worry software engineers: Bill Gates says your job is safe

Microsoft's engineers won't need to retrain just yet, although Gates does believe that AI will generate "so much extra productivity" that it will "surprise people and require us to rethink.”

Francesca Dean June 17, 2024

cybersecurity

Brad Smith

Congress

Microsoft's President grilled over multiple security failures, defends controversial "Recall" handling

Says State Department cyber team deserve a medal for spotting intrusion based on Microsoft security issue before Microsoft's own team did.

Jasper Hamill June 14, 2024

Critical vulnerability and creepy Wi-Fi bug fixed on a rather tame Patch Tuesday

Patch Tueday

News

Critical vulnerability and creepy Wi-Fi bug fixed on a rather tame Patch Tuesday

"It’s not clear how many affected systems are exposed. Now would be a good time to audit your networks to ensure TCP port 1801 is not reachable.”

Jasper Hamill June 12, 2024

News

Recall

privacy

Microsoft backs up after Recall default opt-in "privacy nightmare"

"I genuinely can not understand how that product was ever shipped. It’s terrifying from every conceivable angle..."

Francesca Dean June 10, 2024

Cloud

News

Microsoft's "power" may cause "harm" to cloud market competition, watchdog warns

"Customers are left with no economically reasonable alternative but to choose Azure, even if they prefer the prices, quality, security, innovations and features of rivals."

Jasper Hamill June 10, 2024