Trump asks huge tech totally free labor to prevent federal hirings
The White House wants the nation’s big tech companies to make it easier for employees to do a civic “tour of duty” with the government. Another way of putting it: the President needs to bring in temps now that his plan to cheat Federal workers out of their promised 2019 pay raise fell apart. This latest…
Microsoft’s issue isn’t how typically it updates Windows– it’s how it...
Enlarge / Windows 10 during a product launch event in Tokyo in July 2015. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images It's fair to say that the Windows 10 October 2018 Update has not been Microsoft's most successful update. Reports of data loss quickly emerged, forcing Microsoft to suspend distribution of the update. It has since been…
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla come together to end TLS 1.0
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced a unified plan to deprecate the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 early in 2020. TLS (Transport Layer Security) is used to secure connections on the Web. TLS is essential to the Web, providing the ability to form connections that are confidential, authenticated, and tamper-proof. This has made…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died yesterday at the age of 65. He was suffering from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – a type of cancer. Allen’s company Vulcan Inc. made the announcement through a statement. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world, ranked no. 44 on the Forbes list of billionaires in 2018 when…
‘Our market has actually lost a leader’: Tech titans are ravaged...
"I am heartbroken by the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends, Paul Allen. From our early days together at Lakeside School, through our partnership in the creation of Microsoft, to some of our joint philanthropic projects over the years, Paul was a true partner and dear friend. Personal computing would not have…
Paul Allen– Microsoft co-founder, Seahawks owner, and area leader– passes away...
Paul Allen, who with Bill Gates founded Microsoft, has died at the age of 65. His death comes shortly after he resumed treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; the cancer had returned after being in remission for nine years. Allen was a Seattle native and went to high school with Gates. The two kept in touch at…
What designers state Apple requires to do to make the Apple...
Enlarge / The Apple TV 4K and remote. Samuel Axon As we observed in our review last year, the Apple TV 4K has so much potential for gaming. Its hardware is actually pretty powerful given the type of device it is. It shares development tools and infrastructure with one of the most successful gaming marketplaces…
PC market flat, as Surface area ends up being a top-5...
Enlarge / Clockwise, from the top left: Surface Laptop 2, Surface Studio 2, Surface Headphones, Surface Pro 6. Microsoft was the fifth-biggest PC maker in the US in the third quarter of this year, according to industry advisory firm Gartner. The top spot in the US belongs to HP, with about 4.5 million machines sold,…
Microsoft guarantees to protect– not attack– Linux with its 60,000 patents
Microsoft has made billions from its extensive library of software patents. A number of Android vendors, including Samsung, pay the company a royalty on each phone they ship to license patents such as the ones covering the exFAT file system. But that situation may be coming to an end with the announcement today that Microsoft…
Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer erases your information
Enlarge / Your precious documents, after installing the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Microsoft has figured out why the Windows 10 October 2018 Update deleted data from some systems and produced a fixed version. The severity of the bug caused the company to cease distribution of the update last week; the fixed version is now…
