About: Alex Harris

Did Microsoft just tease Windows 11 at Build 2021? CEO references “next generation of Windows” At Satya Nadella’s keynote speech at Microsoft’s Build 2021 conference, which is running all week, the CEO mentioned that Microsoft is working on “one of the most significant updates to Windows of the past decade,” and that he was “incredibly…

Microsoft Edge will soon let you know if your passwords suck Microsoft Edge password manager is getting an upgrade Microsoft is testing a handful of new features for its flagship web browser Edge, which should deliver both quality of life enhancements and help users stay protected online. The headline improvement is an upgrade to the…

Microsoft officially retiring Internet Explorer next year, moving on to Edge Not even Microsoft wants to make Internet Explorer its default browser Microsoft is set to finally drop its 25-year-old Internet Explorer web browser next year so it can focus all of its attention on the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser instead. In a blog post…

Everything Microsoft removed in the Windows 10 May 2021 Update The legacy version of Edge isn't the only thing Microsoft removed in the Windows 10 May 2021 Update. Windows 10 updates generally bring new features to PCs, but Microsoft also occasionally removes features through major updates. These features are sometimes replaced by other options, but…

Why You Need To Update Your Samsung 5G Phone After Critical New Warning The latest dire warning about Android vulnerabilities gets to the very heart of the devices themselves—the 5G chipset. If exploited, this would allow “dangerous” malware to hide inside your device “and never be removed.” Users are urged to ensure they have the…

A quarter of UK businesses looking to downsize or close offices Applaud, the leading workforce experience layer, today reveals that UK business HR decision makers are paving the way for a new era of work post-pandemic, with organisations across the country looking to close or downsize their offices and focus instead on hybrid, remote working.…

Realizing The Financial Value Of Cloud As more and more organizations embark on the cloud journey or add further impetus to it, CIOs and CFOs are trying to grapple with an existential cloud question: How can they truly realize the financial and nonfinancial value of cloud? According to McKinsey's recent report, "75% of cloud's predicted…

Many firms expect to migrate to the cloud in full within five years Cloud adoption is on the rise, but challenges remain. Today, roughly five percent of organizations have moved their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. In five years’ time, however, that number is expected to swell to 64 percent. This is according to…

Tech Tent: The audio revolution? An audio start-up without revenue gets valued at $4bn (£2.8bn), Facebook is launching what it calls social audio experiences, while Twitter has a new feature called Spaces allowing users to start an instant chat room. What's going on? This week's Tech Tent explores whether good old-fashioned audio is the hot…

Who is coming out on top in the multi-cloud war? Multi-cloud infrastructure empowers organizations to mix and match platforms and vendors such that their workloads are not locked into individual cloud providers While the most significant impacts of multi-cloud strategies have yet to be seen, the power dynamics between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are…