Microsoft is finally ending its extended support for Windows Vista, which means no more security patches or other updates. If you’re one of the hold-outs, it’s time to act

Iain Thomson, reporting for The Register: Plenty of Linux users are up in arms about the performance of the OneDrive web app. They say that when accessing Microsoft’s cloudy storage system in a browser on a non-Windows system — such…

A researcher has published a method by which a local admin can hijack any other Windows sessions without the need for credentials.

Microsoft warns this year’s crop of tax scams use social engineering attacks based on fear to spread banking Trojans and collect personal info.

Since January, a number of ransomware families are sharing a common infrastructure with different techniques allowing the malware to hide from detection systems.

Two weeks after a widespread authentication issue hit Outlook, Skype, OneDrive, Xbox and other Microsoft services, it’s happening again. From a report: On March 21, users across the world began reporting via Twitter that they couldn’t sign into Outlook.com, OneDrive…

“WikiLeaks has made initial contact with us via [email protected],” a Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard — but then things apparently stalled. An anonymous reader quotes Fortune: Wikileaks this week contacted major tech companies including Apple and Google, and required them to…

Posse of tech giants lines up with Google to resist pressure to hand over emails held on overseas servers

Long-time Slashdot reader Billly Gates shared some news from Microsoft’s Visual C++ blog: Visual Studio 2017 now lets developers write C++ code for Linux desktops, servers, and other devices without an extension, targeting specific architectures, including ARM: Visual Studio will…

Third-party patching of vulnerabilities includes another group patching a Microsoft flaw – and provides a glimpse into a new way of dealing with flaws