Could Windows 9’s Killer Feature See It Outsell Windows 7? If there’s one thing that Microsoft is keen to achieve with each iteration of its operating system, it’s universal appeal. We last saw this with Windows 7, which admittedly was launched at the start of the tablet and touchscreen notebook craze, but nonetheless, it’s the last operating system I remember that all my… Read More »
Microsoft to double OneDrive free space, slash extra storage prices up to 73% Will also bump Office 365 Home, Personal subscribers’ allotment to 1TB next month Microsoft today announced it would double OneDrive’s free storage space for consumers to 15GB from its previous allowance of 7GB. The expansion of the free tier, and other changes to OneDrive, will… Read More »
With the Americas running out of IPv4, it’s official: The Internet is full In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached “phase 4” of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no phase 5. APNIC, the Asia-Pacific registry, reached the 17 million (one “/8”… Read More »
Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporter A week spent playing NSA reveals just how much data we leak online. On a bright April morning in Menlo Park, California, I became an Internet spy. This was easier than it sounds because I had a willing target. I had partnered with National Public Radio (NPR) tech correspondent… Read More »
Google unseats Microsoft as the U.S. browser powerhouse Google’s strength in mobile browsing pushes it past Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Google has unseated rival Microsoft as the leading browser maker in the U.S. for the first time, Adobe said this week, citing data from its analytics platform. The rise in Google’s domestic fortunes followed Microsoft’s reduction to second fiddle… Read More »
Many of you who are using Windows 7 have written to us asking if you should upgrade to Windows 8.x in light of the recent revelations that Microsoft has released fixes for Windows 8 for zero-day vulnerabilities but not for Windows 7. According to Microsoft, Windows 7 with Service Pack One (SP1) will be supported until January 14, 2020 (extended… Read More »