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Microsoft's switch to a new system of releasing security updates has failed to take off as scheduled on 14 February.

Microsoft is trashing its own product, Windows 7, calling it outdated, in a bid to force businesses to upgrade to Windows 10.

A request from a bank to look at a switch from Windows to Linux has led to UK-based IT specialist Patrick Fitzgerald and his colleagues at British firm i-Layer developing a detailed method for an institution to make the transition.

Microsoft has extended its enterprise support policy for Windows 7 and 8.1 running on Intel’s sixth generation Skylake processors to January 2020 and 2023 respectively.

Thin clients are regaining popularity for security and convenience. Dell acquired leading thin client provider Wyse back in 2012 and has quietly been developing the technology for enterprise use.

Does Microsoft have some kind of company policy that prevents it from providing easy access to the utility that allows a user at least some measure of control over the unwieldy beast that the Windows operating system has become?

Microsoft has issued a warning about a new type of ransomware that can self-propagate, behaviour that one normally associates with worms.

After three years, the Business Software Alliance has suddenly resurfaced with a report on software piracy. The report is important for what it doesn't reveal, rather than the tired old mantra that it tries to spin. It has a new name too: BSA|The Software Alliance.

Once again, Microsoft has been caught out putting the security of its users at risk, by employing what has been described as a "nasty trick" to force an upgrade to Windows 10.

The push is apparently on by Microsoft to make users, especially consumers, upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10.

The desktop share of Windows computers worldwide fell below 90 per cent for the first time since it established the mark, according to figures from the web analytics company Net Applications.

Boasting of being ‘the most compatible free office suite,’ FreeOffice 2016 says ‘no other free office suite offers such a high level of file compatibility with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.’

Intel used its sponsorship of this week's Connect Expo and the associated Next Big Thing conference to promote the benefits of the sixth-generation Core and Core vPro CPUs.

Beginning this month, Microsoft has changed the status of the Windows 10 update, making it a recommended update for Windows 7 and 8.1 users as opposed to what it was earlier: an optional update.

Microsoft has been slipping in code with its regular updates to make users accept an upgrade to Windows 10 whether they like it or not, as reported in iTWire on Tuesday.

Three Indian banks and a pharmaceutical company in Mumbai are being asked to cough up millions in order to obtain a decryption key to unlock Windows computers that have been compromised through the use of ransomware.

Microsoft is forcing Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 by quietly slipping in code through its regular updates. This has been confirmed by multiple sources.

Work at the pathology department of the Royal Melbourne Hospital has been hit for several days by a virus which has infected computers running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.

Simply put, older versions of Windows on new computers will soon not be supported by patches and updates.

When the service is free, you are the product, and in Microsoft’s case, the company appears to be ‘scroogling’ people just as it warned Google was doing.