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Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62%
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is having trouble selling $7-a-month subscriptions to Office 365. In the last three months of 2016, Microsoft added just 900,000 new subscriptions — and throughout all of 2016, subscriptions increased by just 4.3 million. In…
Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report
An anonymous reader shares this update about programmer/game developer Brianna Wu as well as the FBI’s recently-released report on their GamerGate investigation:Wu has officially unveiled the web site for her campaign for a seat in the U.S. Congress, and says…
This Week 'IT Issues' Ground Delta Airlines' Flights
Delta Air Lines has been forced to cancel at least 150 flights, and expects to cancel even more. But “the IT department is working to rectify the situation as soon as possible,” they tweeted Sunday — more than four hours…
'Second Life' Creators Develop A VR Social World Named 'Sansar'
An anonymous reader writes: After four years of development, Sansar, the new virtual reality world from Second Life’s creators will arrive later this year on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. “It is trying to solve some of the big…
10% Of 'Resident Evil 7' Players Are Wearing VR Headsets
Released five days ago, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard already has over 800,000 players — and 84,036 of them are using a PlayStation VR headset. An anonymous reader quotes Digital Trends: These numbers show that VR might have some real legs…
Server Runs Continuously For 24 Years
In 1993 a Stratus server was booted up by an IT application architect — and it’s still running. An anonymous reader writes: “It never shut down on its own because of a fault it couldn’t handle,” says Phil Hogan, who’s…
Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Future Employers Your Salary History?
An anonymous reader writes: During the interview process for a technology job, I was asked to fill out an application which included questions about my compensation history. When I asked why, I was told that it was part of the…
Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners
Long-time Slashdot reader Kernel Kurtz writes : January 28 is supposed to be Data Privacy Day, so it seems fitting in an alternative sort of way that U.S. President Trump just signed an executive order that eliminates Privacy Act protections…