Microsoft S Xbox Adaptive Controller Now Available To All Gamers

Customers who pre-ordered the controller will not have it shipped to them, while others can now order the Xbox Adaptive Controller from the store. The device is available from the company’s official store for a price of $99. Microsoft has been developing the Xbox Adaptive Controller since 2016. In a collaboration with disabled gamers, the company created a controller based on their specifications. Additionally, Microsoft worked with The AbleGamers Foundation, The Cerebral Palsy Foundation, SpecialEffect, Warfighter Engaged to develop the best results....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 240 words · Brandon Donaldson

Microsoft S Xbox One Support Beats Sony S And Nintendo S In Study

Tom’s Guide conducted a study across the three leading console companies, Microsoft (Xbox One), Sony (PlayStation 4), and Nintendo (Switch). The outlet sought to find which of the three had the best customer support. At the end, Microsoft’s Xbox customer support was deemed the best. That’s an important win for the company, although Tom’s Guide points out Sony and Nintendo also had a high level of customer care. The study found that Microsoft delivers a high level of all-round support....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 230 words · Naomi Hanlin

Microsoft Says Delayed Surface Usb C Dongle To Launch End Of Year

The company now says the Surface USB-C dongle will launch by the end of 2018. Speaking to The Verge, Microsoft confirmed the peripheral is “on the roadmap for later this year.” Of course, considering the track record, we’ll take Microsoft’s statement with a pinch of salt. Still, it is good to know the company has not binned the product. The clear question is why such a delay (it would be a year late) for what is essentially an adaptor?...

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 243 words · Ronnie Chavis

Microsoft Says Windows 10 Will Reach One Billion Devices In 2020

According to the Redmond company, Windows 10 is now running on over 900 million devices. Early adoption of the platform was relatively slow, although it did make its way to 400 million around a year after its release. At the time, many predicted Microsoft’s 1 billion goal seemed out of reach. In recent years the tide has changed, with Microsoft expecting a surge as Windows 7 reached its end of life....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 222 words · Michael Grove

Microsoft Signed Nonbinding Agreement To Acquire Tiktok Before Trump Banned The Company

New court documents show Microsoft went as close to a deal as signing a “nonbinding letter of intent” with ByteDance. This essentially means Microsoft agreed with the Chinese company to purchase TikTok. A nonbinding letter of intent is an agreement in place before due. As it suggests, it does not commit a company to a purchase but does mean talks have gone far. In the case of Microsoft and ByteDance, documents show an agreement was in place from July 30....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 285 words · Steven Perry

Microsoft Significantly Increases Azure Sql Data Warehouse Computing Power

At Inspire, and on its official Azure blog, Microsoft says Azure SQL Data Warehouse will scale up the platform. The company says it is bumping the package to meet increasing demands of customers. SQL Data Warehouse customers need more data processing capabilities. Microsoft is responding by making relevant changes to its massive parallel processing (MPP) cloud relational database. The company understand customers now need “petabyte scale” analysis. To deal with the 1,000 TB scale, Data Warehouse will be upscaled to have computing power to 18,000 DWU (Data Warehouse Units)....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 315 words · Althea Petty

Microsoft Silently Patches Another Flaw In Windows Defender

In his report, Ormandy explains that this new vulnerability would allow hackers to take control of the MsMpEng engine’s emulator and achieve all kinds of wrongdoing. The MsMpEng is the anti-malware portion of Windows Defender. For example, hackers would have been able to execute remote code when the Windows Defender would scan an executable sent by email. According to Ormandy, the MsMpEng includes “a full system x86 emulator that is used to execute any untrusted files that look like PE executables....

November 15, 2022 · 1 min · 208 words · Diana Wissinger

Microsoft Subdomains Are Vulnerable To Hijack Says Security Researcher

Michel Gaschet, a researcher with NIC.gp disclosed the problem during an interview with ZDNet. He says Microsoft subdomains are frequent. While he has reported the problematic sites to Microsoft, he says the company has either ignored him or fixed sites without response. However, only around 10% of the Microsoft subdomains have been fixed, Gaschet says. In total, the researcher has disclosed information on numerous subdomain vulnerabilities, including: 21 msn.com subdomains 142 misconfigured microsoft....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 270 words · John Whipple

Microsoft Supports Newly Launched Amd Epyc 7000 Datacenter Processors

The new series performs across a full range of memory bandwidth, integer, floating points, and I/O workloads. Server hardware manufacturers have thrown their weight behind the processors. HPE, Dell, Gigabyte, Asus, Lenovo, Inventec, Supermicro, Sugon, Tyan, and Wistron are currently supporting AMD. Microsoft says it is supporting the EPYC 7000 range as part of a commitment to give customers the best possible performance: “We’ve worked to make Microsoft Azure a powerful enterprise grade cloud platform, that helps guide the success of our customers, no matter their size or geography,” said Girish Bablani, corporate vice president, Azure Compute, Microsoft Corp....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 275 words · Emil Alberry

Microsoft Surface Event 2022 Scheduled For October 12

Yesterday, Microsoft posted a placeholder webpage (microsoft.com/event). All that the page says is “Watch Live to See What’s Next” alongside a watercolor Windows wallpaper with confirmation of the date (October 12 at 10 a.m. ET). That date is interesting. Firstly, it is the same day that Microsoft opens its Ignite 2022 conference. Perhaps the company is tying in new Surface hardware to announcements at Ignite. If not, one is like to steal the thunder from the other....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 276 words · Venita Woo

Microsoft Teams Has Bugs That Allow Reverse Shell Creation Through Gifs

“This unique C2 infrastructure can be leveraged by sophisticated threat actors to avoid detection by EDR and other network monitoring tools. Particularly in secure network environments, where Microsoft Teams might be one of a handful of allowed, trusted hosts and programs, this attack chain can be particularly devastating,” says Raunch. “Two additional vulnerabilities discovered in Microsoft Teams, a lack of permission enforcement and attachment spoofing, allow for the GIFShell stager to be convincingly dropped and executed on the victim’s machine, completing the attack chain from victim compromise to covert communications....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 407 words · Amy Bidwell

Microsoft Threat Experts And Azure Sentinel Reach Preview

Azure Sentinel is one of the new tools. As the name suggests, it works with Azure to provide “cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool.” Sentinel works by gathering huge quantities of data from cloud-based services, such as Office 365 third-party offerings. According to Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of Cybersecurity for Microsoft, AI powers Sentinel and can work with inner-organizational machine learning tools to reduce “alert fatigue”. As is becoming the norm for Microsoft, Sentinel supports open standard like the Common Event Format (CEF)....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 227 words · Tracy Fass

Microsoft To Build Emet Security Into Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

This report seems to have some truth and has been backed by Alex Ionescu, who says he is a “Windows Internals Expert, Security Ninja, and Embedded ARM Kernel Guru.” In a tweet, Ionescu showed EMET built into a Windows 10 Fall Creators Update kernel. What is interesting about this is that two Microsoft Research security experts liked the tweet. This suggests there is no smoke without fire. Microsoft uses EMET for application and system protection in Windows....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 284 words · Noel Bowers

Microsoft To Do On Mac Receives Planner Integration From Office 365

With its latest Microsoft To-Do app on Mac, the company has brought the Planner feature to the app. This integration has been available on To-Do on other platforms for some time. Office 365 Planner makes it easier for businesses to manage teamwork operations, allowing the creation of team-wide email notifications, project due dates, and visual dashboards. When Microsoft launched Planner in 2016, the company said it simplified workflow management. The Trello competitor is ideal as a Microsoft To-Do integration and can now be accessed on To-Do on Mac....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 224 words · Yolanda Snyder

Microsoft To Purchase 10 Million Synthetic Dna Strands From Twist Bioscience After Data Storage Success

The relationship began in April of last year when the Redmond giant bought its first ten million strands. That number will now double and should help to build on previous successes. One of those came in July of 2016 when Microsoft and the University of Washington stored 200 megabytes of data on DNA. Microsoft decoded and encoded it with complete accuracy, making it a viable but expensive alternative. “We are delighted to see the positive response and growing excitement over DNA as a solution to our world’s growing digital storage dilemma,” said Emily M....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 279 words · Juanita Johnson

Microsoft Translator Now Speaks Japanese And Hindi On Ios

The most important part of Microsoft Translator is of course its language capabilities. On that front, Microsoft has improved the experience with the update to version 3.0.3. Japanese and Hindi transliteration is now supported in the app. Furthermore, Microsoft has also added offline text translation in Filipino. Aside from bolstering language capabilities, the company has also made some UI tweaks to Translator. Microsoft has also performed several bug fixes across known issues, such as the Safari extension language selection....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 290 words · George Bell

Microsoft Ventures Rebranded As M12 To Avoid Confusion

Launched two years ago as Microsoft Ventures, we wrote at the time how the branding could cause some confusion. That’s because Ventures was originally the name of the company’s startup accelerator. With the launch of Microsoft Ventures, the startup accelerator became aptly titled, Microsoft Scaleup. However, it seems people didn’t get the memo and are still confused by the Ventures branding. Ok, we can’t see how companies are getting confused by this....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 267 words · Teddy Ramey

Microsoft Word And Powerpoint Receive Support For Split Screen On Ipados

In a blog post this week, Microsoft said tests are underway for multiple document editing in split-screen on iPadOS: “Hi Office Insiders! I’m Sammy Chiu from the Office team. I’m excited to share that you can now open multiple documents in Word and PowerPoint on iOS.” It is worth noting this is not the same split view tool that is currently available in Microsoft Word. That tool allows users to separate a document for more concise editing....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 288 words · Marie Loeffler

Minecraft Discovery Update Comes To Pocket And Windows 10 Editions

Among the changes are new buildings, maps, animals, and items. For example, gamers on Minecraft Pocket and Windows 10 can now explore the Woodland Mansion. Other new editions include new blocks (such as concrete), Dyable Beds, Llamas, and enchantments like Frostwalking and Mending. Minecraft is also talking up new Add-Ons, such as the Skyrim Mash-Up Pack. The big news about the Discovery Update is that it introduces a Marketplace. You may remember Microsoft reported this feature back in April....

November 15, 2022 · 3 min · 509 words · Charles Thomas

Motorola Patent Offers Solution To One Of Foldable Phone S Biggest Hurdles

The patent describes a hinge with a thermal element inside. On top of it sits an OLED display that folds in both directions. When the hinge is adjusted, the heating kicks in, allegedly removing the semi-permanent crease. To detect when the display is folded, the hinge will also have sensors embedded. These will also let the hinge automatically bend in the opposite direction while heating, counteracting the crease further....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min · 224 words · Nora Gilbert