DLP News, Microsoft, Security
Microsoft’s onetime Chief Privacy Advisor, Caspar Bowden, has come out with a vote of no-confidence in the company’s long-term privacy measures and ability or interest to secure user data in the wake of the NSA’s PRISM program. From 2002 –...
DLP News, Hardware, Microsoft, Tablets
Microsoft is in a tough spot. Windows RT is all but dead in the water. But Microsoft has approximately a zillion and a half Surface RT tablets collecting dust in warehouses. And so Ballmer and Co. continued its ignorant fight against Apple and the far more successful...
DLP News, Microsoft, Windows 8
Microsoft’s shares fell by more than 11 percent on Friday after the company announced its quarterly earnings, so it’s pretty safe to assume that CEO Steve Ballmer is pretty unhappy with the way his Redmond-based empire is going. The International Business Times writes...
DLP News, Hardware, Microsoft, Windows 8
Microsoft and Windows 8 are squarely blamed in a new report from top research firm IDC for a startling plunge in PC sales last quarter. The firm said global PC sales suffered one of their steepest drops in decades over the past three months, the first full quarter...
DLP News, Internet Connectivity, Microsoft
The latest security flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is apparently so bad that the German government has started telling its citizens to switch to other browsers. The bug, announced on 17 September but yet to be fixed, can let all manner of nasty malware...
DLP News, Microsoft, Windows 8
As a cruel trick on myself, about a month ago I installed Windows 8 on my main PC to see what it was like. The answer is: abysmal. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Windows 8 is the worst computing experience I’ve ever had. As a desktop operating system,...
