Browser outfit plans to be steady and stimulating as it tries to score in mobile
The Mozilla Foundation has formalised Firefox OS development, pledging that henceforth new versions will emerge every six months.…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
North Korea’s Red Star Linux inserts sneaky serial content tracker
Hermit Kingdom activists can feel more secure with Open Office
ERNW security analyst Florian Grunow says North Korea’s Red Star Linux operating system is tracking users by tagging content with unique hidden tags.…
Fancy signing into Windows 10 with Office 365? Hmm, not quite yet
Frustrations remain with Azure Active Directory
Hands On Among the most promising features of Windows 10 is Azure Active Directory join, which lets you sign into Windows with an Office 365 account – but Microsoft still has work to do before this presents the seamless experience you might expect.…
Windows 10 Edge: Sucky standards yet better than Chrome?
The best thing for the web since Mozilla forked Netscape
Internet Explorer will soon be joining Geocities, AOL and MySpace in the dustbin of internet history.…
October 14, 2025: The date Windows 10 officially dies
Like facing hackers alone? Prep your migration plan now
Microsoft has announced Windows 10’s official end of support: October 14, 2025.…
Microsoft ships Visual Studio 2015, .Net 4.6 ahead of Windows 10
They’re here – you now have nine days to write your Universal apps
A week ahead of the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio 2015 and .Net 4.6, the latest iterations of its flagship integrated development environment (IDE) and software framework.…
Microsoft hopes to hook Windows 10 consumers with Xbox streaming bait
Game on for anyone running Redmond’s latest OS build
It’s just 11 days until Microsoft takes the covers off its latest operating system – and, to keep the marketing hype building, the software giant has began offering Xbox streaming to Windows 10 customers.…
SourceForge staggers to feet after lengthy STORAGE FAIL outage
Warning: Dev services STILL COMATOSE until mid-week
Popular open source code-hosting repository SoureForge has been battling a significant outage for days and is slugglishly recovering from a lengthy Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) drama.…
GOOGLE GMAIL ATE MY LINUX: Gobbled email enrages Torvalds
Kernel chief Linus claims his spam bin had more than 30% false positives
Linux kernel supremo Linus Torvalds has published a scathing open letter to Google’s Gmail team after discovering that the service had incorrectly marked hundreds of his incoming email threads as spam – including ones containing kernel patches.…
Windows RT on life support: Microsoft vows it won’t pull the plug
New not-Windows-10 update to arrive in September
Fear not, you unlucky owners of Windows RT tablets: Microsoft hasn’t abandoned you yet. Not entirely, anyway.…