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Posted March 13, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, IT Security
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday yielded an interesting security fix for a glaring vulnerability in how the Windows kernel handles USB device enumeration. The critical vulnerability allowed potential hackers with physical access to a Windows PC to run arbitrary code with system…
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Posted January 2, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft
Microsoft recently received some promising news in terms of market share as both Windows 7 and Windows 8 saw notable gains as 2012 came to a close. According to Net Applications, Windows 8 gained 0.66 percentage points in December, bringing…
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Posted July 11, 2012, 1:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Microsoft, IT Security
In a security advisory Tuesday, Microsoft urged Windows Vista and 7 users to download a tool that disables the operating system's sidebar and gadgets. The company warned that insecure gadgets could be used to run arbitrary code on a computer...
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Posted May 2, 2012, 11:00 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Industry News
There are two surefire ways to have your name immortalized in history: succeed in your stride toward greatness or, as so many tech firms did in 2011, faceplant trying.

Fresh in our memory are failed products like the Blackberry Playbook, the PlayStation Network getting hacked, Microsoft's Kin smartphones, AMD's FX relaunch and Duke Nukem Forever. Those and a few others have served as inspiration for us to look further back and revisit some of the biggest flops of the new millennia, starting with what many consider Microsoft's worst OS ever.
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Posted April 11, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Microsoft has terminated mainstream support for Windows Vista operating systems today. Vista was announced in July 2005 and released worldwide on January 30, 2007
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Posted August 1, 2011, 5:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
At the end of July 2011, Microsoft can say that Windows XP finally fell below the 50 percent mark. In other words, Redmond's decade-old operating system is now used by less than half of all Internet users.
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