A 16-year-old set one login field to "admin," and an estimated 17.3 trillion Microsoft rows became accessible.

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E-Day on Windows 11 can avoid the multi-minute shader compile at first launch, Microsoft said on the DirectX Developer Blog. Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) was switched on for AMD and Qualcomm ...

Windows XP had a hidden compatibility database that spotted broken apps, and used shims like VersionLie and EmulateHeap to ...

Microsoft announced the Hotmail acquisition on December 31, 1997. It did not reveal how much it paid for the company. A later securities filing provided more detail. Hotmails owners received 2,769,148 ...

WSL Containers is now generally available, with the wslc CLI, a Windows API, Intune and Defender controls, and Compose is on ...

Microsoft has introduced new capabilities across Fabric and Azure databases aimed at connecting enterprise data, business ...

Meta wants companies, not just advertisers, to pay for its AI. The Facebook and Instagram parent has launched Meta Enterprise ...

Every organization has knowledge that is uniquely its own: the way its business operates, the data it has built over time, the expertise of its people and the context behind thousands of everyday ...

In an incident observed in early June 2026, attackers used two compromised service principals application identities used to ...