Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.
A Microsoft report shows that cybercriminals are shifting their phishing efforts to social media and mobile devices.
Bugs are expected, but this week Apple saw a swarm of them.
Some fixes and improvements are introduced, and the company offers an update on initial feedback.
Docker has up to now been only on Azure and Linux.
Years after exposing a company in chaos, Vanity Fair followed up with Microsoft, projecting a strange situation among the company's founder and its new CEO and providing details on its controversy of the past.
Microsoft is getting a lot of feedback from the more than 1 million users who have tried out WIndows 10, and the research suggests these users are making full use of the new OS.
Word hit last week that the beta for Winodws 10 had a keylogger built in and the web went nuts. Understandable, but also wrong.
The real question on my mind is whether Windows 10 will finally address a problem that has plagued pretty much every Windows OS since at least 95: the decay of the system over time. As you add and remove apps, as Windows writes more and more temporar....
Video game technology is used to create realistic 3D battle space maps for the military.
Satya Nadella continues to shake things up and surprise at the same time, shutting down a research lab and the legendary Trustworthy Computing Group.
The Home Depot and Target breaches reportedly could have been avoided by upgrading to Windows 7 for Embedded Systems.
Even when adjusting the tests to account for add-ons and extensions, Pale Moon still failed to outperform Firefox in my tests..
The Windows 9 public preview coming at the end of the month is going to ask for feedback almost to the point of annoyance.
The project is supposed to speed up the browser. Instead, it's slowing it down.
The maker of the instant camera is now lining up behind Microsoft in the smartphone wars.
Getty Images claims the Bing Image Widget is stealing its images.
The author of this unofficial Windows XP service pack probably means well, but there's a reason we use trusted sources.
The fast-rising Chinese handset maker is sticking with Android.
Manufacturers threaten to slow down production in the gap between Windows 7 and 9.
Clones and ripoffs of legit software abound in a store that looks like a poorly maintained Wal-Mart.
Users help Microsoft track down why the Surface 3 tablet would overheat and make a lot of noise.
Company claims 5,000 companies sign up for Google Apps every day, and thousands switch from Microsoft.
Samsung killed the Z smartphone based on the Tizen OS. Is the entire Tizen OS doomed?
Gartner warns IT to think about upgrade problems down the road.
I'm fed up with both Verzion and my Samsung Windows Phone, so come October I'm lining up for an iPhone 6 on AT&T's network, even if it costs me an extra early termination fee.
New rumors claims PC-based Cortana is going to do more on Windows 9, or 'Threshold,' than its smartphone cousin.
The ex-CEO who returned as interim CEO has been made permanent. This sounds familiar. Can history repeat?
New phones for some, no updates for others. No wonder Windows Phone is at 3% market share.
Samsung is delaying the release of the Samsung Z because it wanted time to "further enhance [the] Tizen ecosystem" before releasing it. Translation: the OS has no apps.
The mighty Wzor is whiffing it lately, so I don't buy this latest report.
Microsoft announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington D.C., that in the past 18 months, 785 enterprise customers that the company had lost to Google's offerings have since returned.
Bloomberg says Microsoft’s quality assurance team might be the target of cuts, but that borders on the unthinkable.
Windows Phone 8.1, the revision to Microsoft's mobile OS that has taken longer to manifest than Windows 8.1, might finally show up this week or next, along with its first update.
Any concerns that Nadella would continue down Ballmer's path should be set aside now.
There's a difference between mainstream and extended support, however.
A help-wanted ad sparks talk of an Android port, but is Android big in the enterprise?
The impressively accurate Microsoft leak group comes out of hiding with new information on Windows 8.1 Update 2 and Windows 9.
So what can the offering from SRI do that Siri and Cortana can't? We don't know yet.
People still don't feel the impetus to upgrade from Windows XP, or maybe they can't afford it.
A quick scan shows that the patch rates have dropped off and a lot of servers remain unsecured.
Researchers say Windows 8 is getting fixes that Windows 7 is not getting, but the devil is in the details.
The company confirms it is coming to the Windows desktop, and possibly iOS and Android.
It will require changes in both software and battery design, but Microsoft Research thinks it can be done.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, this branch of Nokia isn't heading to Redmond.
Now that it owns the former Nokia handset business, Microsoft is apparently getting to work.
Computex is a hardware show, but Microsoft was there to promote Windows as a platform, including recent developments like Windows with Bing, Windows 8.1 Update, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows universal apps.
Everyone seems to have their own definition of what a cloud-based operating system would actually be.
Microsoft and security vendors are both warning users not to do it.
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