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In a new post over on the OneDrive blog, Microsoft has revealed that a small number of users have been abusing the cloud storage service since the Redmond company began rolling out unlimited storage for Office 365 subscribers late last year. Some of this abuse resulted in these users storing in excess of 75 TB, yes terabytes, of data in their accounts that included complete music, DVD, DVR recordings and backups for multiple PCs. According to Microsoft, this small number of users were taking up over 14,000 times the average storage that was used by others users on the service. If you do the math that means the average user on OneDrive is storing approximately 5.4 GB…
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Uncovering unconscious bias
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Gwen Houston, general Manager of Global Diversity & Inclusion at Microsoft. There’s a simple but revealing quote that says, “If you can’t see it, you can’t be it.” This quote crossed my mind as I was among 12,000 people — including more than 800 Microsoft employees — who recently attended the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston. From humble origins just a few years ago, the Grace Hopper Conference has quickly become one of the benchmark moments each year for the rising tide of empowerment and advocacy for women in technology. With the number of women in tech positions of leadership still too small, there is a clear need for more role…
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In today’s world people make up stuff to damage reputations for both individuals and companies, either because they are paid to or just because they are bad people. No matter the reasons, it can do an amazing amount of damage in this age of social media. Columnist Rob Enderle shares a resource to keep on hand, just in case. About 10 years ago I started watching an ugly trend with regard to identity theft. So I started looking into firms that could defend against these attacks. I think those that steal identities and attack people’s reputations on the Web are real Internet monsters and given this is Halloween week I figured it was a good time to tell you about a real …
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‘Halo 5: Guardians’ launches, new Surface devices hit the shelves and Microsoft volunteers...
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Years of hard work came to fruition this week as much-anticipated Microsoft Surface devices and the newest installment of Xbox’s “Halo” game franchise stepped out onto the world stage – and into the hands of consumers. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. Check out this week’s big news from across the company. On Monday, Microsoft’s Surface Book and Surface Pro 4, two new devices first unveiled earlier this month, went on sale in the U.S. and Canada. The launch was especially exciting at the new two-story Microsoft flagship store on New York City’s 5th Avenue – Microsoft’s first-ever flagship store. Surface Book features a display that delivers 6 million pixels…
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Star Wars™ joins characters from Disney, Marvel and Disney•Pixar in the new Disney Infinity 3.0
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Disney’s latest release, Disney Infinity 3.0 for Windows 10 allows you to engage in a console experience right on your Windows PC. This time, the characters, stories and worlds of Star Wars™ join the existing lineup of your favorite characters from Disney, Marvel and Disney•Pixar. And as always, the goal is to create endless opportunities for imagination-fueled play. As before, Disney Infinity lets you play the way you like. New heroes join forces with characters from previous editions, you can play in their worlds – zooming through the Star Wars galaxy or inhabiting the inner space of Inside Out, for example – inside the story-driven Play Sets. Favorite characters…
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The new USA TODAY Sports app for Windows 10 puts you at the center of the action
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USA TODAY Sports is here for Windows 10 and it’s free to download from the Windows Store. This new app is packed with the sports news you need to know about, and all the content within the app is curated by a team of people working to make the most of your spectating experience. From a quick read on the news to trending topic streams and live notifications, USA TODAY Sports puts you at the center of the conversation. Best of all, it comes with the benefits of Windows 10, with a layout that easily adapts from device to device, Live Tiles, and Cortana integration. You can say things to Cortana like, “Open USA TODAY Sports” or “Launch USA TODAY Sports” and Cort…
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Moving forward in the cloud world with software-defined storage
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Over the coming weeks, we’ll be publishing more on Windows Server 2016 and the key capabilities coming in the next wave of Microsoft datacenter solutions. To start off, we’re looking at storage and its evolution. Stay tuned for more on software-defined datacenter and the modern application platform. Storage is a foundational component of the datacenter fabric and is an intrinsic part of Microsoft’s software-defined datacenter solution. Our storage investments are centered on bringing value to customers in terms of increasing cloud scale, availability, performance, and reliability, while lowering acquisition and operational costs - with Windows Server, and now also…
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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10576
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Hi everyone, Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10576 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. Not only does this build have a good set of bug fixes and fit-an-finish, it also includes a few new things for you to try. Here’s what’s new in this build: Media Casting in Microsoft Edge: You can now use Microsoft Edge to cast video, picture, and audio content from your browser to any Miracast and DLNA enabled device on your network. We’ve got a few scenarios for you to try out: Cast a video from YouTube: Go to YouTube.com in Microsoft Edge. Click on the “…” menu and the top left, and select “Cast media to device” and select the Miracast …
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Making it Easier to Upgrade to Windows 10
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Windows 10 has been a great journey so far. Following the plan we originally outlined in June, more than 110M devices have upgraded. If you’re already running Windows 10 – thank you! Our aspiration is for customers to choose Windows, and to love Windows. Our early data shows customers from France to Brazil to China to the US strongly preferring Windows 10 over Windows 8.1 or Windows 7. Through the usage of these first adopters of Windows 10, and great work by the Windows ecosystem of developers, application compatibility and kinks have been worked out of Windows 10. We’ve learned so much, and we’d like to share how we’re implementing some of our learnings which make it…
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Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10581
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Hi everyone, Today we are rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10581 to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring. We’ve fixed the bug preventing upgrades from earlier builds. So if you stayed on Build 10536 or if you flashed back to Windows Phone 8.1 and then installed 10549 or 10572 you can upgrade directly to this new build without going back to 8.1 again. This build doesn’t have significant new features but does include a bunch of good fixes and general performance improvements. Here are some things we have fixed: For devices upgraded from Windows Phone 8.1 like the Lumia 930, Lumia Icon, and Lumia 1520 that had the “Hey Cortana” feature – with this b…
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A Closer Look at Windows Server and Hyper-V Containers with Mark Russinovich
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On the season premiere of , we demo the new container technology within Windows Server 2016, including a hands-on look at Hyper-V Containers with Azure CTO, Mark Russinovich. Containers are one of the hottest topics in cloud and server and with Windows Server 2016, Microsoft is introducing a medley of new technologies including Windows Server and Hyper-V Containers. This builds on the work we’ve been doing with Docker to bring you a unified model for deploying containerized apps comprising Windows Server and Linux. If you are an IT Professional new to containers, the show offers more perspective on the design and architecture of containers, your options and th…
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Upgrade Your World – Dream Big Picture Day
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” For most of us, it’s the first big question we get asked in school. Of course, we’re around seven years old, so no one holds us to the answers—Astronaut, Football Player, Painter of Sea Monsters. It’s our chance to think big in front of our peers, imagine how we want to achieve greatness, and fancifully express how we want to make our community—and our world—a better place. To honor this memorable moment, we went to a local elementary school for “Dream Big Picture Day.” Working with a group of 2nd-graders, we asked them this time-honored question and set up an event to commemorate the results. As you can imagine, the resu…
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One of the most rewarding things about upgrading your operating system is finding all the ways in which it can simplify your working tasks -- after all, the goal of a good operating system is to work better so you can spend your precious brain power doing actual, rewarding work. Here's how to take advantage of Windows 10 so you can get back to what you really want to do on your computer. TIP #1: CREATE AND USE MULTIPLE DESKTOPS If you are anything like me, you probably work on more than one project at the time. You might be writing and researching an article, coding the next killer app, and updating the family budget all at the same time. You might have to switch be…
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Q. Many of my clients have proprietary programs written for XP. Does Win10 work with XP software? A. There’s almost always a way to get older software to run safely inside newer Windows versions. Here are the two main methods. The simplest way is to use Window’s built-in compatibility mode, which instructs Windows to provide the software interfaces and identifications that the old app expects. In effect, it lets Windows 7, 8, and 10 fool the software into thinking it’s running on the older Windows it requires. In general, each version of Windows offers out-of-the-box compatibility modes for several earlier Windows versions. How far back the compatibility goes dep…
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Microsoft researchers help a race pilot go faster, Surface Pro 4 gets down to business and...
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From up in the air to eastern Africa, lots of cool Microsoft news happened this week. Dig in! Microsoft researchers were busy in Las Vegas helping Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss fly the fastest, most efficient way possible. Chambliss already races at a speed of more than 200 miles per hour, sometimes while upside down. But with control theory, robotics, machine learning and path planning, researchers are working to shave his time by a tenth to a hundredth of a second. “You get two-tenths of a second here and two-tenths of a second there, and now you’re winning,” Chambliss said. In awesome device news, the Surface Pro 4 has been adopted by business…
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Read the inside story behind the making of ‘Halo 5: Guardians’
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Jeremie Sloan’s garage in Oregon City teems with life-size “Halo” helmets, chest plates and codpieces. All are built with the goal of perfect fidelity to the “Halo” series of video games. Elsewhere in his labyrinth of basement workspaces, Sloan uses pepakura, a Japanese papercraft technique, to match and glue thousands of tiny serial-numbered paper tabs into the models for his costumes. It takes weeks to construct a single Master Chief helmet out of pepakura — and that’s before the sanding and other tedious steps can even begin. “Some people assume that ‘Halo’ cosplayers are a bunch of teenagers with nothing better to do,” said Sloan, a 6’ 4” crane mechanic, Marine …
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The Xbox Beta App on Windows 10 Gets an Update
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In September, we released the Xbox beta app on Windows 10 as a way for people to test and provide feedback on new features before they are released to the general public on the Xbox app on Windows 10. This week, we’re excited to start previewing some new ways for you to expand your social gaming network and share your gaming content with your friends on Xbox Live. A top requested fan feature coming in this update is the ability to easily find and add Facebook friends who are also on Xbox Live to play, chat, and share clips. Starting today in the Xbox beta app, Xbox Live members on Windows 10 can do just that. In addition, voiceover recording functionality has been …
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The best of Halloween comes together in the ghoulish games and spine-tingling movies, TV...
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Halloween is just around the corner, and Microsoft is getting into the spirit with a ‘Shocktober’ lineup of spooky games, apps, music, TV shows and movies. It’s going to be looking a lot like a haunted house around the Windows Store for the next week, so join in the fun today! Here’s a sampling of what’s waiting for you… Windows Games Plague Inc. ($.99) You become the world’s worst nightmare, spreading deadly pathogens around the globe, in this terrifying mix of strategy and simulation. This month’s game update adds the extreme, zombie-making Necroa Virus, just in time for Halloween! Download Plague Inc. today. Into the Dead ($.99) The dead are ri…
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Microsoft Mechanics to bring you the latest on new server options
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As technologists, it can be hard to keep up whether it’s to do with understanding new server options or the growing ubiquity of technology approaches for resource management and automation. Beyond the news and our blog announcements, it makes sense that you may want to see the technology for yourself, get broader context and understand the potential application without having to dedicate hours of your time to learn more. Today marks the launch of Microsoft Mechanics, (www.microsoft.com/mechanics) our official new show and video platform for IT professionals and tech enthusiasts. Shows comprise informative demos, how-tos and insights from the engineers and tech leaders …
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2015 Citizenship Report shows how Microsoft is making a difference
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Microsoft’s corporate citizenship commitments and actions support our company mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In our 2015 Citizenship Report, which we published this week, you will find information about how these commitments and actions are implemented through our company policies, practices and products, as well as through our investment in communities. During fiscal year 2015, Microsoft made progress on a number of fronts: Becoming the first major cloud provider independently verified for meeting the world’s first international standard for cloud privacy (called ISO/IEC 27018); Purchasing more than 3 bill…
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Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10572
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Hi everyone, We’re rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10572 today to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring. As you know, build 10549.4 had a bug that prevented upgrade to it from prior builds, so Insiders who wanted to try it out needed to flash back to 8.1. We have fixed this issue in our latest internal builds, and new builds greater than 10575 will have the fix. So why 10572 if it doesn’t have the fix to allow upgrades? This build has a bunch of great fixes and some very cool new feature additions, and we wanted to give Insiders who really wanted to try it out the opportunity to do so a bit early. Rest assured, if you’re on 10549.4 or an earlier buil…
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Celebrating Windows 10 Devices Around the World
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve been celebrating new Windows 10 devices as they were unveiled around the world. It’s been an incredible journey – traveling 29,000 miles in less than two weeks from NYC to Barcelona to San Francisco to Taipei to Tokyo to Seoul and back to San Francisco. We’ve been celebrating our innovative partners and the Windows 10 devices they are bringing to people around the world. We started off in NYC, where we introduced new Surface, Lumia, and Band devices and shared the latest from HoloLens, and Xbox. With products like Surface Book, you can see how we’re investing in hardware experiences to reinvent categories and create opportunities for the …
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Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - .NET Core and ASP.NET Beta Bounty
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Today, I have another exciting expansion of the Microsoft Bounty Programs to announce. Please visit https://aka.ms/bugbounty to find out more. I’ll be discussing this new bounty in my talk at SyScan360 on October 21, 2015. We are delighted to offer a bounty for the .NET Core and ASP.NET Beta which Microsoft released earlier this month. .NET and ASP.NET represent critical building blocks in the Visual Studio Development Suite. This bounty is particularly interesting because the libraries and functions included in .NET enable developers to write their own programs with great security and stability, increasingly on many Operating Systems. This will extend to all supported…
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The Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows Begins Shipping Today
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The Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows begins shipping today. Back in June, Xbox Wire announced the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows as part of our commitment for designing Xbox accessories to support both Xbox and Windows. Beginning today, the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows is shipping to retailers in most markets around the world, including the U.S. The Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows lets you enjoy the freedom and convenience of the wireless controller on Windows 10 PCs, laptops, and tablets. Simply plug the Adapter into the USB 2.0 or 3.0 port of your Windows 10 PC and bind the Adapter to your Wireless Controller to enable the same gaming experience you’re u…
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Today, I have another exciting expansion of the Microsoft Bounty Programs to announce. Please visit https://aka.ms/bugbounty to find out more. I’ll be discussing this new bounty in my talk at SyScan360 on October 21, 2015. We are delighted to offer a bounty for the .NET Core and ASP.NET Beta which Microsoft released earlier this month.
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