Blog Extension Granted For Windows 7 Support For Six Months December 12, 2020 by Vertical Axion Microsoft has had a firm date to end support for Windows 7 on the books for over a year. They’ve insisted repeatedly that there was no flexibility in the date, so Windows 7 users would need to upgrade or risk not being protected by security patches. Then the pandemic hit, and after wrestling with the […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Security Technology News Windows
Blog Windows 10 Displays Going Dark Issue Fixed By Microsoft November 24, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you run Windows 10, version 2004, you may have noticed some unusual shenanigans going on where your system’s monitor is concerned. If you’re using a tablet or laptop, with a display that’s built into the machine itself, it may flicker periodically. If you’re using a desktop PC with a standalone monitor external to the […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Technology News Windows
Blog Office 365 Exchange Users Get Disposable Email Feature November 10, 2020 by Vertical Axion During the 2019 Microsoft Ignite convention, the company announced a new feature they were planning to add to Exchange Online. The new feature, dubbed “plus addressing” would give Office 365 Exchange users the ability to create a potentially unlimited number of disposable email addresses using a + delimiter. That’s handy, given that so many sites […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Office 365 Recent News Technology News
Blog For Security, Windows 10 Update Removes Adobe Flash Player November 9, 2020 by Vertical Axion In September of this year, Microsoft announced that they would soon be releasing an optional update designed to remove the Adobe Flash Player from any machine applying the update, and rendering it impossible for Flash to be reinstalled on that device. It’s easy to understand how and why the company reached the decision to do […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Security Technology News Windows
Blog Notification To Update Microsoft Word Could Be Hidden Malware November 7, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you’ve spent any time at all surveying the threat landscape, then you’re almost certainly familiar with the name Emotet. As one of the largest malware botnets on the planet, it’s dangerous and then some, and its tentacles extend to every corner of the globe. There’s nowhere on earth you can go that Emotet can’t […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Microsoft Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New Windows 10 Update Shows App Warnings For Malware October 27, 2020 by Vertical Axion A great many malware strains are designed to engage quietly during a PC’s startup process and then idle in the background. They are in the system logging keystrokes, taking screen shots at periodic intervals and uploading them to a command and control server, or doing other nefarious things. Microsoft wants to limit malware’s ability to […] Read more » Malware and Virus Protection Microsoft New Technology Recent News Security Technology News Windows
Blog Latest Windows 10 Update May Block Third Party Drivers October 26, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you haven’t yet installed the latest Windows 10 or Windows Server update, here’s something to be aware of before you do. You may not be able to update or install some third-party drivers. When you try, you might receive an error message that reads ‘Windows can’t verify the publisher of this driver software.’ In […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Technology News Windows
Blog Microsoft Image AI Increases Accuracy To Rival Humans October 24, 2020 by Vertical Axion Skynet just took a step closer to becoming a reality. The word, of course, refers back to the hit movie, ‘Terminator,’ in which a computer network gained sentience and decided to do away with the human race. While Microsoft’s latest advances in AI aren’t Skynet, their new, and recently touted AI image description routine is […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft New Technology Recent News Technology News
Blog New Updates For Office 365 Will Include Phishing Protection October 19, 2020 by Vertical Axion Are you an Office 365 user? If so, be aware that Microsoft is adding some powerful new protections to the software suite, designed to make you safer. Hackers commonly target Office 365 users with a type of attack known as “Consent Phishing.” That basically means that the hacker in question will use a variety of […] Read more » Microsoft Office 365 Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Microsoft Testing User Based Windows Setup For Performance Optimization October 17, 2020 by Vertical Axion What do you primarily use your PC for? It’s a more important question than you might think, because different use cases for your PC require it to be configured in different ways to optimize your user experience. Until now, that’s something that each individual user has attended to, making tweaks as necessary to the core […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft New Technology Recent News Technology News Windows
