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• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  Battle lines over Windows Server 2008 migration drawn

  Microsoft and AWS stepped up their ongoing battle promoting a variety of Windows Server 2008 migration tools in hopes of luring users over to their respective ecosystems.

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  January Patch Tuesday fixes cryptography bug found by NSA

  The U.S. National Security Agency shared information with Microsoft about a significant spoofing vulnerability in Windows that enterprises should make a patching priority.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  December Patch Tuesday resolves Windows zero-day

  Microsoft delivers the final batch of security fixes for the year with a Windows zero-day vulnerability getting top billing for administrators.

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Microsoft's history and future strategy beyond 2020

  Microsoft's history over the past 20 years is marked by the pivot from closed software models to support for open source and cloud. Quantum computing will shape the next decades.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Microsoft closes IE zero-day on November Patch Tuesday

  Security updates for the month also include corrections for bugs in the Hyper-V virtualization platform, Excel for Mac systems and Exchange Server.

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• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference coverage

  Expect Microsoft to continue its cloud push at its annual conference for IT pros to get more organizations moving to Azure and its Office 365 collaboration platform.

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  October Patch Tuesday resolves 59 vulnerabilities

  Microsoft attempts to stamp out printing issues that originated from a faulty out-of-band patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day.

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  September Patch Tuesday addresses 2 Windows zero-days

  Microsoft issues fixes for 79 unique vulnerabilities, including three public disclosures, as part of its monthly security updates.

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  August Patch Tuesday corrects new 'wormable' exploits

  Administrators weighed down by news of the BlueKeep vulnerability will have to contend with a similar bug some are calling DejaBlue.

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Microsoft patches two Windows zero-days in July Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft fixed two Windows zero-day flaws as part of the July 2019 Patch Tuesday release, which also saw the remediation of 75 other vulnerabilities across Microsoft products.

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  Microsoft plugs 4 zero-day exploits for June Patch Tuesday

  Despite multiple warnings from Microsoft, the threat of the BlueKeep RDP vulnerability to unpatched Windows systems continues to loom following its May Patch Tuesday disclosure.

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  May Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day, new Intel CPU bugs

  Microsoft fixed 23 critical vulnerabilities in its latest monthly security updates, as well as patches for supported and unsupported Windows systems to ward off a worm that has the potential to be the next WannaCry.

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  April Patch Tuesday closes 2 zero-day exploits

  In addition to Microsoft's fixes, administrators should patch holes in several Adobe products to keep attackers from creating havoc in their systems.

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  March Patch Tuesday shuts down two zero-day exploits

  In addition to the March Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft's attempts at improving performance following Spectre variant 2 patches backfire for some users on Windows 10.

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Microsoft zero-day vulnerability closed on Patch Tuesday

  Administrators should prioritize patching systems affected by a zero-day vulnerability resolved by the February Patch Tuesday updates.