As a way to bypass slow moving carriers (Verizon, is that you?), Microsoft offers the Windows Phone Developer Preview program. While the "wink, wink" reason for its existence is to give developers a heads up on the next update of Windows Phone, it is also used by non-developers to get access to the

One major change in the most recent public preview of Windows 10 is drawing howls of protests from testers. At Microsoft’s UserVoice site, a “feature suggestion” logged by my colleague Mary Branscombe has now received 2,585 votes, with that total rising hourly. add an advanced option to restore

It didn't take me long yesterday to realize that the stand-out vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft wasMS14-066 "Vulnerability in Schannel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2992611)". I know you know it's rated critical, but this one is different. Drop everything and apply it. At the very least

Meet the new Microsoft. Satya Nadella took over the reins in Redmond earlier this year, with more than a little skepticism about his ability to turn the slow-moving behemoth that is Microsoft. But things have changed under Nadella's leadership. Here's an update on just what makes the new Microsoft

Previously, Audience's sound processing tricks have required a dedicated chip, limiting where you would see it; you're more likely to get clever noise cancelling in your phone than in a PC. That's changing shortly thanks to S1.0, the company's first software-only approach to voice processing. The