Tag: Microsoft

January 2, 2024

Microsoft has enhanced its code coverage tools, adding new features to Microsoft.CodeCoverage and introducing dotnet-coverage. The enhancements include fresh report formats that integrate smoothly with tools such as ReportGenerator. Microsoft posted a bulletin about its enhanced code coverage tools on […]

January 2, 2024

Microsoft announced that it will retire its Visual Studio 2013 IDE in April. The company is urging Visual Studio 2013 users to upgrade to Visual Studio 2022. In a blog post on January 2, 2024, Microsoft said that extended support […]

December 29, 2023

Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS. Both versions of the app are now available to download from the Apple App Store. The app […]

December 21, 2023

Windows 10 running out of road for support is going to be something of an environmental disaster in terms of old PCs going into landfills, an analyst firm has warned. Canalys wrote an article on the state of the PC […]

December 6, 2023

Windows 10 is unfortunately coming to the end of its life cycle. In 2025, Microsoft’s OS will no longer receive free updates and support as the company transitions its efforts to Windows 11 and potentially Windows 12. Why is Microsoft […]

December 4, 2023

An affected user, Anant Acharya, complained about the reduced performance on the official Microsoft forums. He says the problem cropped up on his 2020 HP Pavilion laptop, which was a high-performance device before the recent update and could clock high […]

November 15, 2023

Microsoft has released fixes to address 63 security bugs in its software for the month of November 2023, including three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, three are rated Critical, 56 are […]

November 8, 2023

Microsoft and Oracle have announced a multi-year agreement on a cloud collaboration for AI inferencing. The Redmond tech titan will essentially rent some cloud computing capacity from the database giant, providing Bing’s AI conversational engine with a much-needed power increase. […]

October 25, 2023

Nadella said that in retrospect, he believes Microsoft could have made things work by perhaps reinventing the relationship between PCs, tablets, and phones. Nadella isn’t the only Microsoft bigwig to fumble the mobile opportunity. Back in 2019, Microsoft co-founder Bill […]

October 19, 2023

Microsoft has unveiled Radius, an open-source, cloud-native application platform that enables developers, IT teams, and platform engineers to collaborate on delivering and managing applications across public clouds and on-prem infrastructure. Radius was introduced October 18 by the Microsoft Azure Incubations […]

October 13, 2023

Visual Studio Code 1.83, the latest monthly release of the Microsoft-built code editor, improves command discovery, via enhanced command palette searching. With more than 2,000 commands in Visual Studio Code and with popular extensions driving the number even higher, finding […]

October 5, 2023

Who doesn’t love subscriptions? Microsoft may move to a paid subscription model for Windows 12, the next major iteration of the PC operating system. Deskmodder, a German site, spotted subscription-centric language in a code for a new Windows build that […]

October 5, 2023

C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension for “editor first” C# development, has reached general availability, Microsoft announced on October 4. The extension leverages C# language services and helps developers manage and test their C# code. An integrated solution […]

October 4, 2023

Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through an SQL Server instance. “The attackers initially exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an application within the target’s environment,” security researchers […]

October 3, 2023

Hot on the heels of Oracle’s release of the Java 21 platform, Microsoft now is offering its own build of the open source OpenJDK 21, at no cost. Available from learn.microsoft.com as of September 28, the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK […]

September 22, 2023

Microsoft is moving full steam ahead with its AI efforts, and could soon present its major plans in a special event. It’s anticipated that the company may take to the stage to announce continuing AI integration into Microsoft products, such […]

September 14, 2023

Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in how to manage open source development at scale. With millions of users and thousands of potential contributors, the company’s project maintainers have problems that most open source projects […]

September 7, 2023

Microsoft Loop is an intriguing tool, one that promises a lot but has yet to deliver more than a framework for running collaborative applications. The intent is to have a common data framework for collaboration, exposed as a canvas, with […]

September 6, 2023

On Wednesday, the European Commission designated six “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) defines gatekeepers as platforms that have a significant impact on the internet market. “In total, […]

August 31, 2023

The transition of Microsoft Azure to a Kubernetes-based platform has given it an interesting capability that it’s slowly starting to turn into a competitive advantage: Azure is now portable. We’re already seeing some aspects of that portability in Azure’s edge […]