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• Secured-core PCs offer new defence against firmware attacks

  Microsoft, PC makers, and three major chipmakers team up to announce Secured-core PCs, designed to defend against PC firmware attacks.

• SAP teams up on cloud sales with Microsoft

  The partnership, called "Embrace", will help clients to run operations hosted at remote servers supported by SAP's flagship S/4HANA database

• Meet the Microsoft NZ Partners award winners

  “Some of the examples we’ve seen have created an impact that reaches far beyond one organisation, transforming people’s wellbeing as well as our natural environment,” says Sarah Bowden, Microsoft New Zealand One Commercial Partner Director.

• Microsoft has invested $1 billion in research lab OpenAI – here’s why

  Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI shows the Redmond giant has its sights set on being ready for the complex world of artificial general intelligence.

• Microsoft preps service pack-esque Windows 10 1909 for release

  Newly renamed 'Windows 10 November 2019 Update' is nearing release. But given past naming conventions, it might not show up until November.

• Microsoft prods customers with Windows 10 retirement dates

  Microsoft is reminding customers that one version of Windows 10 received its final security update and another will fall off the support list.

• Microsoft crowdsourced QA, and look what we got

  The Windows Insiders program has signed up lots of people willing to check out pre-release versions of Windows for free. But it’s not working.

• Call me crazy, but Windows 11 could run on Linux

  With Microsoft embracing Linux ever more tightly, might it do the heretofore unthinkable and dump the NT kernel in favor of the Linux kernel?

• Microsoft gives enterprises another 9 months to get off Exchange Server 2010

  Microsoft has issued a support reprieve to Exchange Server 2010, continuing to service the on-premises enterprise software for an extra nine months.

• 'We won't sell facial recognition services for the purposes of mass surveillance anywhere in the world': Microsoft president Brad Smith

  "We won't sell facial recognition services for the purposes of mass surveillance anywhere in the world.”

• LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

  A court has rejected LinkedIn's effort to stop a San Francisco company from using information that its users have deemed public.

• ACSC urges Windows update as BlueKeep exploit released

  Australia’s cyber security agency has called for urgent Microsoft updates to be implemented following the first public release of the ‘BlueKeep’ flaw.​

• European regulators to Microsoft: 'We’re watching you'

  The company has kept out of regulators’ crosshairs for some time now, but its seeming indifference to privacy matters could be changing that.

• What we know so far about the unusual Windows 10 1909

  The way Microsoft plans to roll out the next version of Windows 10 this fall is almost certainly a precursor for future autumn upgrades.

• Facebook, Microsoft launch contest to detect deepfake videos

  Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft, the Partnership on AI coalition and academics from several universities to launch a contest to better detect deepfakes, the company said in a ​blog post​ on Thursday. ~