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Even in an age of Anonymous, dirty hackers, and constantly evolving malware, there are still computers out there that aren't secure. According to Microsoft, one in every four computers in South Africa is unprotected.At this year's TechEd Africa, the Redmond-based company presented its key findings from Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report volume 14 (SIRv14). The report emphasises the need for up-to-date real-time antivirus or anti-malware protection."Without this vital protection layer, these systems are five times more likely to be infected ...
Microsoft's latest addition to the Excel 2013 & Office 365 suite is a nifty little plugin called GeoFlow. GeoFlow for Excel is a 3D visualization tool for mapping, exploring & interacting with geographical and temporal data, allowing people to discover and share new insights.The tool, which offers a wide variety of options and customizing, allows you to visualize how geospatial patterns, such as clusters, trends or outliers, change over time. Once the insights have been identified and collated, they ...
When you spend more than a billion dollars on a social platform, make sure you do something amazing with it. Microsoft seems to be doing that with Yammer.Enterprise communication has evolved in the last few years moving from phone, email, instant messaging, voice and video and now social networking.Microsoft is making strides to dominate the enterprise scene, and it seems its acquisition of enterprise social network Yammer the tool it plans on using to do so. According to Michael ...
For Microsoft, Windows 8 is the future of computing, so the tech giant is doing everything it can make sure people use it.At Microsoft's Africa edition of its TechEd conference, there was some buzz around one of the ways it is trying to make this happen -- namely, Windows to Go.The company launched Windows To Go (WTG), an operating system on the go, not too long ago. According to Microsoft, Windows To Go is a "fully manageable, corporate image installed ...
The PC market is in dire shape. It's been falling for some time now, we all know that. But the first quarter of 2013 has been particularly bad.According to tech research company IDC, PC sales fell 14% in the first few months of this year. That's almost twice as big a decline as IDC had predicted and marked the worst quarter since IDC began tracking the PC market quarterly in 1994.iChartsIt's also the fourth consecutive quarter that the ...
In 364 days, Microsoft will shut down all support for Windows XP.The Redmond-based tech giant yesterday published an official blog post explaining that it would stop support for the operating system in exactly one year.The post also acts as a kind of eulogy for the OS, which was first launched in 2001. "It’s no question that Windows XP was an outstanding operating system to meet the needs of customers more than a decade ago," Microsoft says.But 12 years ...
Look, we all know that the PC market isn't in the healthiest place at the moment. And while tablets and smartphones may never completely kill off the PC, they're not about to let it make a comeback.The latest research from tech research company Gartner suggests that they PC market will decline 7.6% this year. This is not a temporary trend induced by a more austere economic environment, it is a reflection of a long-term change in user behavior. And ...
If you're an IT pro or developer who thinks mingling with some 2 500 techies, attending your pick of 200 technical sessions and singing a few rounds of TechIdols sounds like a delightful way to spend your company's money, then Microsoft can help you out.In a bid to make it easier for interested people to attend this year's TechEd Africa event, the company has created a email template packed with all the right keywords and jargon that you ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that his company's range of Surface tablets isn't likely to dominate the personal computing market. He does however insist that they are a "real business".In an interview with interview with MIT technology Review, Ballmer doesn't answer a lot of specific questions about the product, which hasn't sold all that well since its release in the latter part of 2012.Nonetheless Ballmer says he's "super-glad" Microsoft did Surface. He did however admit that ...
When Microsoft announced that it was killing Hotmail in favour Outlook.com geeks around the world sighed with relief. A few months on, the service has 60-million users and has dropped the "preview" tag.Microsoft is also set to sound the final death-knell for Hotmail with a massive advertising push telling people to mover over to Outlook.com. At the same time it will begin forcing Hotmail users onto the new service.What Microsoft is saying, in effect, is Outlook.com is ready ...
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