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Microsoft confirms being hacked by Lapsus group

Usama Jawad — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:22:02 +0000

Microsoft has officially confirmed that it was indeed compromised by Lapsus group. It has outlined a series of steps that organizations can take to protect themselves and identify malicious activity. Read more...

Lapsus group reportedly dumps source code for Microsoft Cortana and Bing services

Usama Jawad — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:20:01 +0000

Hacking collective LAPSUS$ has reportedly leaked the source code for multiple Microsoft projects including Cortana, Bing, and Bing Maps. The 37GB dump contains data for over 250 projects. Read more...

Barcelona dumping Microsoft in favor of open source software

Usama Jawad — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:06:01 +0000

Government authorities in Barcelona have decided that they are ditching Microsoft and transitioning to open source software, in order to save money on expensive proprietary software licensing deals. Read more...

Nokia, Intel dump HSDPA laptop

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:04:53 +0000

NOKIA and Intel had scrapped a joint plan to develop an HSDPA module for notebook computers. "We have, together with Intel, cancelled the HSDPA module cooperation in the form we formerly announced," Nokia spokeswoman Eija-Riitta... Read more...

Fedora to dump the 'Core'

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:22:20 +0000

In a mailing to the Fedora development listing, Red Hat's Bill Nottingham has announced that effective the next release there will be no Fedora Core. The distribution will be known only as Fedora. "Starting with... Read more...

French MPs dump Windows for Linux

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:17:24 +0000

Starting June 2007, PCs in French dÃ©putÃ©s' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software. The project, backed by MPs Richard Cazenav and Bernard Carayon of the UMP party,... Read more...

Massachusetts Plans to Dump Office

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:15:23 +0000

Massachusetts government officials on Thursday unveiled plans to phase out Microsoft Office in favor of office productivity suites that support an open-document format from the OASIS standards body, according to a statement from the commonwealth.... Read more...

Microsoft may Dump Proposed RSS Name

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:05:11 +0000

A well-known Microsoft Corp. Web logger Tuesday downplayed the proposed use of a new name for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) following several days of intense discussion about... Read more...

UK councils dump Windows for Linux

Sun, 08 Jun 2003 22:49:09 +0000

Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to Linux Open source software is set to dramatically increase its foothold in the public... Read more...

IBM to dump Netscape 7 port for Microsoft IE

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:54:52 +0000

Right hand doesn't know what left hand's doing. In another case of the all too common "right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing" syndrome, so widespread in large corporations... Read more...

UK Gov agency threatens to dump 500,000 Windows desktops

Sun, 25 Nov 2001 05:45:24 +0000

The UK government's confusing relationship with Microsoft seems to be taking a turn of the worse. In recent weeks we've seen the Ministry of Defence and the National Health Service strike deals which will allegedly... Read more...