Microsoft improves noise suppression in Teams
Microsoft has added a new feature to Teams to suppress background noise during video calls better. The software also receives the ability to send notifications to the built-in notification features in Windows 10 and macOS.
Now that many people are working from home because of the corona pandemic...
Microsoft releases Akri to enhance Kubernetes and take IoT devices to the edge
Microsoft seems to love open source nowadays, and it continued with the sharing of Akri, a project that simplifies the use of network edge devices with Kubernetes.
Akri operates under Deis Labs, which is under Deis, which Microsoft acquired in 2017. The whole point of Akri is to expose lightweig...
Microsoft announces Azure Space and partnership with SpaceX
Move targets public and private industry customers as well as governments.
Microsoft announced this week that it’s making its Azure cloud-computing services available to the space industry. The new platform, called Azure Space, will provide space-based Azure services to customers in the agricu...
Hackers are actively attacking Windows Active Directory servers
Attackers use the "Zerologon" exploit to backdoor unpatched Windows servers.
Last month we reported on a Windows vulnerability that allowed anyone to become an Admin on an organization’s Active Directory domain controllers.
Earlier this year, researchers at Secura published an exploit that...
The new Windows 10 update might render older drivers incompatible
This week, a cumulative Windows 10 update was released to fix some issues concerning security. However, it may be causing incompatibility issues with some versions of legitimate drivers.
Microsoft's change as part of the KB4579311 is to ensure that the verification standard in Windows 10 for dri...
Microsoft plans to make AI more inclusive of people with disabilities
In a new initiative, Microsoft is launching a new series of AI systems that will make AI more accessible to people with disabilities. The project wants to address what it’s calling a ‘data desert’ that has left machine learning algorithms without adequate, relevant data that can be effective ...
Microsoft helms campaign to disrupt TrickBot, the infamous botnet
Microsoft claimed that it disrupted the infamous botnet named TrickBot, in partnership with other companies. The evidence shows that only part of the botnet was affected by the takedown. TrickBot first appeared back in 2016 and is believed to be in more than 1 million machines.
It was used to ge...
Mobile ransomware has worryingly evolved, according to new research
Ransomware is not new, but every day, it brings new threats to governments, public service institutions, and any institution that suffers when there is downtime. Along with PC and server malware, Android phones are also one of the targets under fire.
In new research, Microsoft has shown that hac...
Microsoft tells staff remote working is now ‘standard’
Microsoft has said that its more than 150,000 staff can now work from home or anywhere they please, most of the time. This will be the new standard. Last Friday, the software giant released a guide on what the flexible workplace will look like after the COVID-19 pandemic is curbed enough to make wo...
Microsoft takes a shot at Apple with new store principles for Windows Store
In what is a clear diss at Apple, Microsoft published a new set of principles for the Windows 10 store. The principles include fair pricing and no restrictions for developers seeking to implement in-app purchases.
Based on the Coalition for App Fairness’ ideas and work, the ’10 principles fo...
Microsoft has released a new Edge tools extension for VS Code
Microsoft has announced that its Microsoft Edge Tools for VS Code extension is now generally available. The developers can embed Edge’s browser developer tools into the software giant’s widely used cross-platform code editor.
The new extension can be used by developers to use the built-in Ed...
Microsoft introduces more features to Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
October is here, and Microsoft's Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2020 Wave 2 updates and features are rolling in. Microsoft is taking this opportunity of the Wave 2 rolling out to announce some incremental features expected to appear on the Dynamics 365 Customer Insights platform.
The Dynamics 3...