After a stealth campaign in early 2021, hackers escalated their attacks and have now exploited over 30,000 unpatched Exchange Servers.

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After a stealth campaign in early 2021, hackers escalated their attacks and have now exploited over 30,000 unpatched Exchange Servers.
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Andrew and Paul discuss how services are becoming more integrated into other platforms, content discoverability, and Microsoft Ignite.
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On this episode of First Ring Daily, Chrome makes a change, we wait for the EU, and it's officially the end of the week.
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One of the more interesting tidbits that came out of Ignite this week is that Microsoft is moving the desktop and mobile versions of Edge to a single codebase.
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Andrew and Paul discuss how services are becoming more integrated into other platforms, content discoverability, and Microsoft Ignite.
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Happy Friday, and welcome to March: Spring is not quite in the air yet, but it will be soon, so let’s kick off what I hope will be our last cold weekend of the season.
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On this episode of the Sams Report, Microsoft Ignite has come, Windows has a small happy fire, and Game Pass got a few new gems.
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The February 2021 release of Visual Studio Code brings several new features to Microsoft’s modern code editor, key among support for M1-based Macs.
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Google announced today that it will shorten the Chrome release schedule from every six weeks to every four weeks.
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Leo, Mary Jo, and Paul discuss all the news coming out of Microsoft Ignite this week, Windows 10, hardware news, Xbox news, and much, much more.
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Mary Jo and I joined Microsoft hosts Dona Sarkar and Seth Juarez---and Microsoft CVP of Developer Relations Jeff Sandquist---this week during a special event at Ignite.
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Among the new features coming to Microsoft Edge on desktop this month is vertical tabs, which seems ideal for the 16:9 displays that most of us are still stuck with.
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Last year, Flutter lead Tim Sneath publicly reached out to Microsoft in an effort to get its support for Google’s cross-platform developer framework.
On this episode of First Ring Daily, Ignite is over, Google is making a big change, and Windows shows off new icons.
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It’s getting harder to keep track of all the regulatory bodies around the globe that are investigating Apple for antitrust violations now. But we can add the UK to the list.
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Microsoft has published its latest roadmap for OneDrive, and it has a number of new features on the way, including Dark mode support on the web.
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Apple has finally figured out how to let its users get out of the one-way, dead-end street that is the Apple ecosystem. At least part of it.
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In its initial releases, Flutter allowed developers to create apps that run on both Android and iOS. But now Google is setting its sights higher. Much higher.
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Today, Microsoft revealed the several new titles that will be coming to Xbox Game Pass subscribers in the first half of March. Plus a few others coming later.
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Brave announced today that it has acquired the open search engine Tailcat and will integrate it into its desktop and mobile web browsers.
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Google today acknowledged that the proliferation of advertising-based tracking on the web has eroded the trust of its users.
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On this episode of First Ring Daily, patch your Exchange Server, maybe use VR for meetings, and not much about Windows.
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In a very brief appearance during an Ignite 2021 session today, Windows chief Panos Panay finally discussed the future of Windows. Vaguely and in passing.
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Citing a shift towards streaming video services, Sony said today that it will no longer sell movies and TV shows through its PlayStation Store.
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Microsoft Mesh is a new mixed-reality platform powered by Azure that allows people in different physical locations to share holographic experiences together.
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On this episode of First Ring Daily, Ignite is here and there are a bunch of items that are on the agenda - Server, Teams and Hardware.
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As part of its opening day Ignite 2021 festivities, Microsoft announced today that the Power Automate Desktop app for Windows 10 is now available.
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Microsoft Ignite 2021 is underway this week virtually, and it appears to be pretty light on news about Windows. But here are some sessions to pay attention to.