After test-offering their Replicator 2 printer in Microsoft stores on the West Coast, MakerBot will begin stocking Microsoft stores across the country with 3D printers. The company will also offer demos that allow people to see 3D printing firsthand.
On top of the original stores in San Francisco, Seattle and Palo Alto, 15 more locations will be added. The full list is available on the MakerBot website.
IDC released its smartphone shipment numbers for the second quarter of 2013, and other than the usual stuff (Android at 80%, iOS down to 13.3% due to lack of a new model), the Windows Phone figures are interesting.
Microsoft may have just celebrated the one year anniversary of Outlook.com, but this week the company sent out word that one of the email service's handy features will be removed sometime later this year.
Liveside.net reports that, in an email sent out to Outlook.com users, Microsoft stated the messaging history folder will be discontinued on Outlook.com sometime this fall. The feature was set up so that users could store all of the IMs from Messenger, Facebook Chat and Google Talk to a specific message history folder on Outlook.com.
Smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system are vulnerable to attacks that can extract the user credentials needed to log in to sensitive corporate networks, the company warned Monday.
The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network.
The zero-day vulnerability allowed as-yet-unknown interlopers to use a malicious piece of JavaScript to collect crucial identifying information on computers visiting some websites using The Onion Router (TOR) network.
Researchers at Neohapsis Labs have discovered an ingeniously simple man-in-the-middle attack that can hijack the IPv6 capability of a PC to silently intercept all web traffic on a target network.
Due for full disclosure at the DEF CON 21 conference, the attack's design isn't new - the similar Stateless Address Auto Configuration (SLAAC) principle was demonstrated at Infosec in 2011 - but extends it to Windows 8 segments for the first time.
In the days following Microsoft's $900 million Surface RT write-down, many have been questioning Microsoft's stated plan to remain committed to Windows RT and Surface RT.
Is Microsoft really going to continue to sink resources into an operating system that's different from its core Windows 8 one, especially given that the new devices and services company made only $853 million (revenues, not profits) from its Surface RT and Pro sales through June 30?
Microsoft is going to be rebranding SkyDrive, its cloud storage service, following its loss of a trademark battle with British Sky Broadcasting Group over the "Sky" name.
As reported on July 31 by The Verge's Tom Warren, Microsoft has decided not to appeal its recent loss and is going to rebrand SkyDrive instead of fight for the name. A joint press release by Microsoft and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) explained the decision. From that release:
Information about Microsoft's Xbox One leaked long before its formal announcement in May thanks to an Australian teen with access to its development kit. According to recent police filings, the teen, Dylan Wheeler, is now denying police access to his laptop.
Last year, Microsoft announced plans to host Linux in virtual machines -- along with Windows Server VMs -- in Windows Azure. But that's not the end of what Microsoft is doing to try to make its Windows server and cloud the best platform for running Linux workloads.
With the coming Windows Server 2012 "Blue" (Windows Server 2012 R2) release, Microsoft is adding improvements targeted at those running Linux on Hyper-V in Windows Server.
