Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Disney hates the idea of fans using its intellectual property in social media posts. The Financial Times reports that Microsoft has modified Bing's image generator "after concerns were raised over a viral social media trend where users created realisti... ...
In the mid 2010s, Microsoft developed a surprisingly good OS for its smartphones: fast, intuitive, beautifully-designed and even-gasp!—minimalistic. One commentator—I forget who—smartly suggested that Microsoft should call it WIN and put it on tablets ... ...
Microsoft has recently announced that Twitter will no longer be included in its ad-planning service. The company's Smart Campaigns service, which advertisers use to place ads on social media, has refused to pay for Twitter's API, which was previously f... ...
Backing up your computer is a critical step in any computer system. A backup can help you restore your data if an electrical fire, virus attack, or natural disaster destroys your mainframe or laptop. you can restore it to its previous state by organising and copying important files to a new hard drive or USB ...
Microsoft said Friday that hackers hacked a computer used by one of its customer service agents and stole account data which they then used to launch “highly targeted” attacks against customers. The company identified the hacking group as Nobelium, the same one behind last year’s massive SolarWinds breach. Microsoft has secured computers, which were infected ...
Microsoft’s new Mesh software platform helps faraway coworkers meet up and interact in mixed reality. The results are, well, still mixed. ...
@radmint tweeted a photo from her Microsoft New Employee orientation in which she is posed with a "celebrity Clippy"; the eagle-eyed Kristen Seversky noted that the forearm of the actor in the Clippy suit is adorned with a seemingly permanent, very prominent Clippy tattoo.
From the Wikipedia entry for "Office Assistant", AKA ...
Microsoft maintains the fiction that it has sold its most valuable copyrights and other intangible assets to a tiny factory in Puerto Rico, where, thanks to promising to hire a mere 85 workers, it pays effective zero tax; the company transfers almost all its profits to this factory to "license" its own crown jewels, making ...
Vaporgoth composers take note for your next music video: the developers behind Microsoft Excel 95 left a marvelous easter egg hidden in the spreadsheet ****. Welcome to the "Hall of Tortured Souls." More background at the wonderful Easter Egg Archive.
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2019 was the "I Told You So" year for privacy advocates and voice assistants: the year in which every company that wanted you to trust them to put an always-on mic in the most intimate places in your home was revealed to have allowed thousands of low-waged contractors to listen in on millions of clips, ...