The FTC has Microsoft’s largest acquisition ever under the microscope and can either make or break the company’s future in gaming. Read More
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Washington grinds Diem to a halt
The Mark Zuckerberg-backed crypto effort appears DOA amid regulatory wavering. Read More
Tech earnings reports could signal calm or chaos
The cloudy start to 2022 could come into sharper focus as Microsoft, Apple, and others report holiday-quarter earnings. Read More
Congress’ big antitrust bill is filled with gray areas
Top tech companies understandably have questions about how a major piece of legislation would work. Read More
Microsoft fixes Patch Tuesday bug that broke VPN in Windows 10 and 11
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday updates for Windows are generally meant to fix problems, but that isn’t how it always goes. January’s updates, released last week, caused a handful of problems for businesses in particular. The most serious, especially for people still dealing with pandemic-driven remote-work setups, was a bug that broke […]
Microsoft makes huge bet on gaming IP
A massive deal to acquire video game developer Activision Blizzard shows the value of owning content. Read More
Microsoft warns of destructive disk wiper targeting Ukraine
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past few months, geopolitical tensions have escalated as Russia amassed tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine’s border and made subtle but far-reaching threats if Ukraine and NATO don’t agree to Kremlin demands. Now, a similar dispute is playing out in cyber arenas, as unknown hackers late last week […]
Microsoft Teams turns your phone into a walkie-talkie
Enlarge (credit: Getty) One of the hallmarks of Boost Mobile prepaid phones in the early 2000s was their push-to-talk (PTT), or walkie-talkie, feature, which allowed you to play your voice through another Boost Mobile user’s phone speaker with the push associated with a button. Microsoft is now bringing a similar feature to iOS and Android devices […]
The hot air behind Congress’ social media subpoenas
A House select committee gets aggressive with Facebook, Twitter, and others. Big Tech probably doesn’t have much to worry about. Read More
Exchange Server bug gets a fix after ruining admin’s New Year’s plans
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has released a fix for a harebrained Exchange Server bug that shut down on-premises mail delivery around the world just as clocks were chiming in the new year. The mass disruption stemmed from a date check failure in Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 that made it impossible for servers to […]