Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at Town Hall in Seattle on Sept. 20 about his new book, Tools and Weapons. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Brad Smith makes one hell of a convincing argument. How else can you explain the following from Bill Gates’ foreword to his book, “Tools & Weapons: The Promise and the […]
The open-source movement has a history that captures both its community spirit and renegade impact. Sometimes, that history even involves a yapping animal. In Linux, the “biff” command notifies users when mail arrives and identifies the deliverer. Was “biff” a cleverly conceived acronym for a remarkably sophisticated programming language? No. It was named after a
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Hackers backed by the Iranian government recently tried to hack email accounts used by the campaign of a US presidential candidate, a Microsoft official said on Friday. The “Phosphorous” hackers, as Microsoft has named the group, targeted the unidentified campaign by attempting to access email accounts campaign staff received through Microsoft cloud services. Rather than
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This week Microsoft revealed a whole bunch of new hardware. There were groundbreaking reveals, like the Surface Duo and Surface Neo. There were also some incremental updates to existing devices. Take the Surface Laptop 3, for example. There’s a new 15-inch model that ships with an AMD Ryzen 7 processor. It’s got a USB Type-C
Another update for Windows, and another set of unwanted side effects. Continuing Microsoft’s recent run of problematic updates, users are reporting that KB4524147 is killing the Windows 10 Start menu. KB4524147 was supposed to fix — among other things — a printing problem that was introduced by the KB4522016 cumulative update. But rather than helping,
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Opinion post by David Imel “I’m sure you’re gonna talk about this as a phone. I’m sure you’re gonna talk about it as a communication device and I get that. It does both those things incredibly well. But make no mistake, this product is a Surface,” said Panos Panay at the October 2 Surface event
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A tribute video plays on the big screen at CenturyLink Field as the Seahawks franchise honored Paul Allen and inducted him into the team’s Ring of Honor on Thursday. (GeekWire Photos / Kevin Lisota) Patti Hammond — better known around these parts as “Mama Blue” — knows how much Paul Allen meant to the Seattle
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Microsoft’s Edge web browser has received generally positive reviews, and has proven to be a worthy successor to Internet Explorer and a solid contender among modern browsers. In December 2018, Microsoft announced its intention to abandon EdgeHTML as the browser’s rendering engine in favor of Chromium, the same rendering engine Google Chrome uses. In the
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Microsoft will begin rolling out the Windows 10 19H1 update very soon, but in the meantime it’s working hard on the next big feature release — the May 2020 Update, due out next spring. Fresh from its big hardware event yesterday, the software giant today rolls out a new flight to Fast ring Insiders. Build
Adesto Technologies Corporation provides application-specific semiconductors and systems for the Internet of Things (IoT). In a press release today, Adesto announced it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT. This will allow customers to use Adesto’s SmartServer IoT on hardware and software designed to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services. Adesto’s SmartServer IoT is a
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