Software

Windows XP Is Still Running On A Tenth Of All Desktops

Veteran software remains the third most popular version of Windows, despite support ending two years ago

9 years ago

Microsoft Tests Ad-Free Outlook.com Premium At £2.81

Microsoft tests monthly free for Outlook.com premium, which will offer personalised email, better calendar sharing and remove adverts

9 years ago

Open Network Insight Project Builds On Big Data To Improve Security

The open-source effort, which is backed by Cloudera, Intel, eBay and others, is seeing early adoption, as organizations aim to…

9 years ago

Slack Secures £141m In Fresh Funding For Business Collaboration Push

Three year old Slack is now worth £2.7bn as it looks to continue rapid rise from startup to business tool

9 years ago

Microsoft Looks Beyond Mouse And Keyboard With Windows 10 ‘Anniversary Update’

Free ‘Anniversary Update’ will be available to all Windows 10 users from this summer

9 years ago

Microsoft Is Bringing The Linux Command Line To Windows 10

Microsoft is launching a Windows Subsystem on Linux and has partnered with Canonical to deliver ‘Ubuntu on Windows’ for Windows…

9 years ago

Microsoft Apologises For Offensive Chatbot Tweets

Microsoft's artificially intelligent bot began tweeting inappropriate messages and had to be deactivated within a day

9 years ago

Kindle: Update Software Now Or Kiss Book Downloads Goodbye

Amazon warns that old versions of Kindle software must be updated today or users will lose the connectivity needed to…

9 years ago

Jive CEO: Consumer Services Can’t Solve Business Collaboration

JiveWorld 2016: CEO Elise Steele says rivals like Facebook at Workcan't match business focus and won't stop Jive from achieving…

9 years ago

What Is Apache Spark And Why Choose It?

Tugdual Grall, technical evangelist at MapR Technologies, looks at the rise of Apache Spark and why everyone’s talking about it

9 years ago

Steve Ballmer: Linux Is No Longer ‘A Cancer’

Feisty ex boss of Microsoft ends hostility to Linux operating system and praises Satya Nadella's open source commitments

9 years ago

Microsoft Browsers Fixed In Latest Patch Tuesday

Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer browsers gain fixes for critical flaws in latest security update

9 years ago

5 Ways To Get More Out Of Hadoop

Ashley Stirrup, CMO at Talend, shares his top tips for honing Hadoop skills

9 years ago

Microsoft Previews SQL Server For Linux

The move is Microsoft's latest to accommodate the popular open source platform

9 years ago

Amazon To Restore Encryption To Fire OS

Amazon changes its mind about removing encryption features from Kindle Fire and other Amazon products

9 years ago

Google Joins Unicef’s Fight Against Zika Virus

Google partners UNICEF in the global fight against the Zika virus, with mapping data and more

9 years ago

MoD Extends Capgemini Payments Contract Until December

Ministry of Defence wants another 12 months of Capgemini's P2P cloud payment and procurement service

9 years ago

Canonical Touts 64-bit ARM IoT Developer Platform

IoT developers offered powerful but tiny quad core platform to deliver Internet of Things solutions

9 years ago

How Linux Kernel Cgroups And Namespaces Made Modern Containers Possible

Computer service provider ElasticHosts offers insight into the underlying Linux Kernel technologies used by Docker, LXC and lmctfy

9 years ago

Office 2016 Installation Routine Deleting Older Standalone Apps

NEWS ANALYSIS: If your company depends on Microsoft Office applications that are installed separately from the ubiquitous productivity suite, installing…

9 years ago

UNICEF Seeks World-Changing Open Source Technologies

United Nations to fund startups to develop open source tech to improve the lives of vulnerable children and civilians

9 years ago

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Back To Usual Numbers

Return to normal numbers. Second update of the year sees 13 bulletins, six rated as critical

9 years ago

Microsoft Turns On Yammer For Office 365 Customers

Enterprise social network push. Microsoft activates Yammer for all eligible Office 365 business customers

9 years ago

Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Found

Security researchers urge Android users to manually patch a vulnerability that's existed for at least three years

9 years ago

Microsoft And Chipmakers To Ensure New PCs Only Run Windows 10

Microsoft says that devices powered by the latest chips will not support older versions such as Windows 7 and 8

9 years ago

Juniper To Remove Flawed Encryption Code

The Dual-EC-DRBG was shown to have been targeted by the NSA for tapping into encrypted communications

9 years ago

Twitter Community Helps Create Improved Linux Encoder Ransomware

New version of dangerous ransomware has infected 600 Linux servers

9 years ago

IT Life – In The Groove

David Macmillan from Jive Software tells us about finding synergy, keeping control, and dreams of being a chef

9 years ago

In Praise Of Software

CA Technologies CEO Mike Gregoire explains why software isn't the bad guy when it comes to digital innovation

9 years ago

IBM, Linux Foundation And Others Launch Blockchain Consortium

Linux Foundation oversees new Blockchain consortium to develop enterprise grade ledger framework

9 years ago