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The Windows 10 developer’s dilemma: Go Universal or stick with the desktop?

Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform offers code-once-run-anywhere upside, but development drawbacks abound

By Tim Anderson

Aug 24, 2015 13 mins

Microsoft Small and Medium Business Windows

Up, down, and out: 20 years of Internet Explorer

On IE's 20th anniversary, the story of the Web browser that had it all and lost its way

By Mary Branscombe

Aug 21, 2015 55 mins

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Microsoft fires back at Google with Bing contextual search on Android

"Snapshots on Tap" echoes a feature coming with the next version of Android

By Blair Frank

Aug 20, 2015 2 mins

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Latest Windows 10 preview cripples 64-bit Chrome

Tuesday's build 10525 stymies Chrome; Google has logged the bug into the Chromium tracker

By Gregg Keizer

Aug 19, 2015 3 mins

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Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for critical Internet Explorer flaw

Hitting a specially crafted malicious website can give attackers the same rights as the logged-in user of the machine

By Tim Greene

Aug 19, 2015 2 mins

Microsoft Security

Microsoft buddies up to Docker with Windows Server Containers

Microsoft has released a preview of the company's Windows container virtualization technology

By Joab Jackson

Aug 19, 2015 3 mins

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How Adblock Plus could work as malware protection

Payloads can't be delivered if you don't see them.

By Andy Patrizio

Aug 19, 2015 3 mins

Microsoft Security

Microsoft releases first beta for the next version of Windows

Build 10525 improves memory management and lets users make title bars more colorful

By Blair Frank

Aug 18, 2015 3 mins

Microsoft Small and Medium Business Windows

Windows 10 still contacts Microsoft even when told to stop

Sleuths digging through the OS find covert calls to HQ, but they don't know what is being said.

By Andy Patrizio

Aug 18, 2015 3 mins

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Who’s upgrading to Windows 10?

In the three weeks since the new OS's debut, Windows 8.1 users have been the most willing to migrate

By Gregg Keizer

Aug 18, 2015 3 mins

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