Getty Images Microsoft has been working to make passwordless sign-in for Windows and Microsoft accounts a reality for years now, and today those efforts come to fruition: The Verge reports that starting today, users can completely remove their passwords from
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Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
Enlarge / Windows 11 sports built-in Microsoft Teams integration that may have brought down the desktop and taskbar in a recent preview build. Andrew Cunningham Microsoft released a new build of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders late last week as
Microsoft Outlook shows real person’s contact info for IDN phishing emails
If you receive an email from someone@arstechnіca.com, is it really from someone at Ars? Most definitely not—the domain in that email address is not the same arstechnica.com that you know. The ‘і’ character in there is from the Cyrillic script and
Why Windows 11 has such strict hardware requirements, according to Microsoft
Microsoft Windows 11 promises to refine window management, run Android apps, and to unify the look and feel of the operating system’s built-in apps after years of frustrating hodgepodge. But none of that matters if your computer can’t run the
“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
Enlarge / Cosmos DB is a managed database service offering—including both relational and noSQL data structures—belonging to Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure. Cloud security vendor Wiz announced yesterday that it found a vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s managed database service, Cosmos DB,
Microsoft will support some, but not most, 7th-gen Intel Core CPUs in Windows 11
If you were hoping for Microsoft to backtrack on Windows 11’s stringent security-focused new system requirements, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that a small handful of 7th-generation Intel Core processors have been added to
Hands-on: You can now run Windows 365 on iPad, and Microsoft even has an app for it
Microsoft’s new cloud PC system, Windows 365, has officially launched for all eligible businesses and enterprises. While it’s not available to consumers yet, we hope to see it in the future. In the meantime, I was able to go