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In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, transformative partnerships are reshaping how enterprises approach engineering and IT infrastructure. The recent announcement that Faros AI is partnering with Microsoft to harness AI-powered engineering efficiency on Microsoft Azure marks a significant...

The cybersecurity sphere has once again been jolted awake with an important release from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). On January 28, 2025, CISA dropped seven new advisories that target vulnerabilities affecting Industrial Control Systems (ICS). For those...

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As a kid, Charles Taylor was always interested in tech – though he didn’t know exactly what that meant, beyond translating to a job related to computer science. Growing up in Littleton, North Carolina – an actual little town with less than 700 people – he went to school with the same group of...

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This Saturday 9th of November, there will be a keynote from Microsoft engineers Ryan Levick and Sebastian Fernandez at RustFest Barcelona. They will be talking about why Microsoft is exploring Rust adoption, some of the challenges we’ve faced in this process, and the future of Rust adoption in...

Appealing to a wider swath of developers is important for Microsoft’s growth prospects. Tools and software that help engineers write programs generate a small portion of Microsoft’s revenue, dwarfed by units like cloud services and Windows – but they lure users to the bigger businesses...

Earlier this week Link Removed brought together security researchers and hundreds of cybersecurity professionals from China and across Asia to explore the latest topics in cybersecurity research. Including presentations from Qihoo 360, Baidu, Alibaba and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, BlueHat...

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

Link Removed Chris working through the design process on a Surface Studio. Burton has been synonymous with the sport of snowboarding for decades. Since the company’s founding, Snowboarding has grown and evolved, even becoming an Olympic sport in 1998. Burton has been a key piece of the sport’s...

Hello OK, bad news first. I'm a near 74 year old engineer, and have very little experience with modern operating systems, though I have quite a bit with older systems. For many years I've used a machine running Win XP Pro with SP3. Mainly this machine is used for technical work - engineering...

Link Removed builds devices that empower people to be more productive and create without limits. Removing limitations is especially important for engineers, architects and designers – who depend on powerful hardware and software to streamline their workflow and bring their creations to life...

Interviews with Jann Horn and people who know him show how a combination of dogged determination and a powerful mind helped him stumble upon features and flaws that have been around for over a decade but had gone undetected. Continue reading...

Microsoft has a proven track record of transforming productivity: empowering people and organizations to achieve more. As part of the digital transformation that the modern workplace is currently undergoing, mixed reality is providing new ways for companies to visualize and interact with 3D...

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Today, Microsoft triaged a large release of exploits made publicly available by Shadow Brokers. Understandingly, customers have expressed concerns around the risk this disclosure potentially creates. Our engineers have investigated the disclosed exploits, and most of the exploits are already...

Hello Windows Insiders! It’s that time again! We’re getting ready to start releasing new builds from our Development Branch. And just like before after the release of a new Windows 10 update, you won’t see many big noticeable changes or new features in new builds just yet. That’s because right...

In 1956 I had two weeks of Army training in electronics. When it was over, I was satisfied that a vacuum tube would die when its filament burned out. Although I had no formal training after that, I did conclude that semi-conductors and transistors were probably the same thing, but it took a...

Students using Windows 10 IoT and Lego Mindstorm create science experiments on board the International Space Station Link Removed Valley Christian Schools students and Quest Institute’s Danny Kim prepare for launch With the successful launch of Quest Institute’s first ever Windows 10 IoT...

We’ve seen great momentum across a range of industries and use cases for Surface devices – especially from engineers, who are some of the most creative people in the world. They are often responsible for designing some of today’s most complex and sophisticated products – from trains and planes...