Microsoft changes Windows 10 icons
Iconoclasm never ended well
Microsoft is rolling out updates to the icons for Windows 10's core apps over the months ahead, starting with the Calendar and Mail apps in a new Release Preview for Windows Insiders in the Fast ring.
Microsoft’s Turing-NLG AI is so scary they will not let it out of the lab
Clippy will start searching for Sarah Conner
Software King of the World Microsoft is sitting on a new AI language model which is so scary it is not letting it out of the lab.
IBM snubs Microsoft Teams
Cuts it some Slack instead
Big Blue has snubbed Microsoft's Microsoft Teams and chosen Slack for its more than 350,000 employees it what is being seen as a big test for the software.
Bill Gates is not buying a super yacht
Bizarre rumour debunked
Over the weekend the interweb tubes were blocked by a story that software King of the World Sir William Gates the III was splashing out on a huge hydrogen-powered superyacht which has turned out to be totally made up.
Windows 7 refuses to shut down
You don't have permission
While Microsoft has done its best to kill off Windows 7, a new bug in the software suggests that it does not want to die.
Microsoft’s borked Windows 10 search excuse was rubbish
Here is what we did to fix it
Last week, searching in Windows 10 was borked, with a black bar showing where search results should be, even for those who tried to perform a local search of their files.
Microsoft continues growth
Has Wall Street in its hands
Software King of the World Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profit that beat Wall Street expectations, driven by the first acceleration of Azure cloud computing revenue growth in eight quarters amid a pitched battle with Amazon.com cloud unit.
Dead Windows 7 gets another security patch
To fix a borked wallpaper job
Microsoft has issued a surprise patch for Windows 7 after saying it would never ever do that again.
Here is the strange case of a Microsoft subsidiary
Worthless and then suddenly worth $30.4 billion
After nearly 12 years the IRS can start to wrap up its tax audit of Software King of the World Microsoft connected to the strange case of the Puerto Rico subsidiary.
Apple finally removes support for Flash
Now the ghost of Steve Jobs will have to find another reason why Safari keeps breaking
More than a decade ago, Apple's High Priest Steve Jobs moaned that Flash was responsible for things breaking in his software. Now, it seems Apple is ending all connection with the software which appears to have outlasted Jobs himself.