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Microsoft, Lenovo to promote genuine Windows on PCs
In the midst of its latest campaign to fight piracy in China, Microsoft has signed an agreement with Lenovo to ensure that its PCs ship with licensed versions of Windows software on its computers
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Microsoft enlists Dell to push Office 365 on new PCs
Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed, single-license trial.
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Microsoft promises Surface Pro tablet support until 2017
Microsoft will support its Surface Pro tablet until July 2017, or almost four-and-a-half years after its launch last weekend, the company's website confirmed.
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Microsoft System Centre update fuses Azure with on-premises assets
With the release of the first service pack for Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft is taking another step in its ambitious goal of helping customers manage their on-premises IT and Microsoft Azure cloud services with a single set of IT management controls.
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Microsoft quietly increases license and server option prices
Microsoft has revealed details of a number of price increases related to its client access licenses (CAL) and server options, which are due to come into force on 1st December.
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W3C launches HTML5 Web standards, tutorials site
In an effort to better acquaint Web developers with the open technologies that can be used to build Web applications, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a Web site with tutorials and other documentation that cover most of today's Web standards, including the emerging HTML5 set of standards. The site has also been designed to provide more user feedback to the developers of the Web standards themselves.
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Box working on Windows Phone app for cloud storage services
Box plans to announce a new application for the Windows Phone OS and a partnership with Qualcomm, moves that it hopes will boost adoption of its cloud storage and file-sharing service on mobile devices.
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Attack code published for two unpatched Microsoft vulnerabilities
Attack code for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft software, one of which has not yet been patched, was integrated into the open source Metasploit penetration testing framework.
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Microsoft giant Patch Tuesday keeps admins busy
Microsoft has patched 26 vulnerabilities, including one in Internet Explorer that's already being exploited. The company also warned customers of a new zero-day attack and quashed yet another instance of a bug that the Duqu intelligence-gathering Trojan leveraged.
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Telefónica selects 16 start-ups for Wayra acceleration programme
Mobile operator Telefónica, which runs O2, has selected 16 UK start-ups to join the London hub of its global tech start-up accelerator programme, Wayra.
