Microsoft follows through with its plans to raise Office 2019 prices by 10 percent. Microsoft may have just made Office 365 a more attractive option than it was previously thanks to Office 2019’s higher prices. Microsoft rolled out its on-premise Office 2019 suite for Windows and Mac in September. But rather than highlight major new … Read more
IBM just spent $34 billion to buy a software company that gives away its primary product for free. IBM Sunday said it would acquire Red Hat, best known for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. Red Hat is an open source software company that gives away the source code for its core products. That means … Read more
So far, there’s no issue with Windows Server 2019, but because it shares a code base with Windows 10, and Windows 10 has a problem, Microsoft has made the server unavailable for download until it clears things up. Microsoft is recommending that those who have downloaded Windows Server 2019 should not install it until the … Read more
Microsoft has truly embraced open source, in a radical shift rare for a big company—and developers should be very happy. Microsoft is perhaps the most impressive company on the planet right now. While it doesn’t (currently) dominate markets like it used to, Microsoft has managed something dramatically more difficult, something that portends future success as … Read more
Report provides first-hand insights into industry trends, cyber insurance shopper profiles and key market predictions. CyberPolicy, the world’s first online cyber insurance marketplace, this week released new findings on the state of cyber insurance within the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. Interestingly, although being typically reserved for large enterprises with ample capital, the cyber … Read more
Some see this as a giant leap forward for Microsoft and open source. A few, however, see Microsoft’s open-source patent move as just more of the same old, same old. When Microsoft surprised everyone by releasing its entire 60,000 patent portfolio to the open-source community, someone asked me if I thought the move would finally convince everyone … Read more
The company also committed to a successor version, ending speculation that this year’s release would be the last that doesn’t require a subscription. Microsoft recently launched Office 2019 for Windows and macOS, giving its most important customers – volume licensees – first crack at the application suite. Also on Monday, the Redmond, Wash. company committed … Read more
Performance of virtual machines could be severely affected by the workaround for Intel’s latest processor flaw. To compensate, more processors will be needed. Businesses running Intel-powered servers in their datacentres may need to buy one-third more server licences to ensure system performance is not reduced after applying the Foreshadow fix. Mitigation against the recent Intel … Read more
Microsoft is stepping up its Windows 7 migration campaign with a paid security update option, Desktop App Assure service and more. With the Windows 7 end-of-support clock slowly winding down to January 14, 2020, Microsoft is announcing it will offer, for a fee, continuing security updates for the product through January 2023. This isn’t the … Read more
Windows Server 2019 upgrades enable greater scalability and more reliable recovery from outages for Shielded Virtual Machines. With Windows Server 2019, Microsoft is adding resiliency and redundancy enhancements to the Shielded Virtual Machines security controls it introduced with Windows Server 2016. Shielded VMs originally provided a way to protect virtual machine assets by isolating them … Read more
