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Windows 10 Devices Total 1 Billion

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Windows 10 Devices Total 1 Billion

Microsoft announces active Windows 10 devices total 1 billion, just six months after passing the 900 million mark-- with the number including PCs, laptops, Xbox One consoles and HoloLens devices.

“Today we’re delighted to announce that over one billion people have chosen Windows 10 across 200 countries resulting in more than one billion active Windows 10 devices," corporate VP of Modern Life and the Search & Devices Group Yusuf Mehdi says. “We couldn’t be more grateful to our customers, partners, and employees for helping us get here.”

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Microsoft Ends Windows 7 Support

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Microsoft Ends Windows 7 Support

It's been a long time coming-- Microsoft finally closes the window on Windows 7, following the commitment to offer 10 years of support for the OS when it was released back on 22 October 2009.

But what does end of support even mean? As per Microsoft, after 14 January 2020 PCs running on Windows 7 will no longer receiver security updates. In addition, the company is also shutting down number of related services, including games such as Internet Backgammon and Internet Checkers and the Electronic Program Guide for Windows Media Centre. As such, Microsoft recommends customers still to upgrade their OS should either do that (for a fee, of course) or simply buy a Windows 10 machine. After all, older machines might not be able to run Windows 10, as it needs at least a 1GHz processor, 32GB or storage and 1GB of RAM, among other system requirements.

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Microsoft Claims 900 Million Win 10 Users

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Microsoft Claims 900 Million Win 10 Users

Windows 10 is running in over 900 million devices Microsoft reports, with the past 12 months adding more devices "than ever before." If growth continues at such a pace the OS is set to reach 1 billion devices by Q1 2020, at least according to Thurrott.

“Windows 10 is on more than 900 million devices!” Microsoft CVP Yusuf Mehdi tweets. “Thanks to our customers, we added more new Windows 10 devices in the last 12 months than ever before. From PCs to HoloLens to Xbox to Surface Hub, Windows continues to power innovation—with more to come next week!”

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Net Applications: Windows 7 Share Drops Further in July

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Net Applications: Windows 7 Share Drops Further in July

Migration to Windows 10 is in high gear, web metrics vendor Net Applications reports-- Windows 7 PC share of all PCs is down by 3.6 percentage points in July 2019, the 2nd largest amount for a single month for the OS, bringing total share to 31.8%.

The Windows 7 portion of all Windows-based PCs is also down, specifically to 36%, the lowest since 2011 (or back when the Windows version was all of 2 years old and looking to take over from Windows XP). For the curious, according to Net Applications the share of all PCs running on Windows stands at 88.5% for July 2019, with the rest running on either macOS, Linux or Chrome OS.

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The Microsoft Plan for Windows Gaming

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The Microsoft Plan for Windows Gaming

Windows 10 might be the go-to system for games enthusiasts, but the Windows Store is don't-go-to for digital game purchases-- leading Microsoft to promise it will do better at the XO18 event.

“I think we’ve got a ton of work to do on Windows,” Xbox chief Phil Spencer tells The Verge. “Windows is something I’m very committed to, I’ve heard the feedback about our Store. I’m going to take a bigger leadership role on what’s going on with the Windows Store, make it really tailored to the gamers that we know want to see the best from what we have to offer.”

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Malware Found in CCleaner Software!

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Malware Found in CCleaner Software!

Piriform admits legitimate downloads of its CCleaner software carry a "multi-stage malware payload"-- essentially a backdoor allowing hackers to install ransomware or keyloggers to further infect PCs.

According to the company around 2.27 million users ran the affected software (specifically CCleaner version 5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud version 1.07.3191) following download from a hacked server. The company says the situation could have been a lot worse, since CCleaner gets around 5 million new users per month, for a total of over 2 billion downloads.

It also says the affected version is already updated, and it was "able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm" following initial warnings from security researchers at Cisco and Morphisec. According to the Cisco Talos research unit the affected CCleaner infects computers through the inclusion of remote administration tools that, once installed, connect to several unregistered websites in order to download more unauthorised programs.

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Jide Kills Remix OS

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Jide Kills Remix OS

Remix OS-- the desktop-style Android fork complete with floating windows, mouse and keyboard support, and a start button-- is no more, as developer Jide announces an end to its consumer products.

A simple announcement on the Jide website states work on "all existing products," including Remix OS software and various hardware products, is over. The company is even going to refund preorders on devices, such as the Remix IO and IO+ STBs, made on both Kickstarter and its online storefront starting from 15 August.

But why is Jide bringing such work to an end? Apparently this is due to a reshuffling of company priorities. As the announcement puts it, “over the past year, we received an increasing number of inquiries from enterprises in various industries, and began helping them build great tools for their organisations... [G]iven our existing resources, we decided to focus our company efforts solely on the enterprise space moving forward.”

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Dark Web Hosts New Mac Malware

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Dark Web Hosts New Mac Malware

Security news site Bleeping Computer discovers a pair of Mac malware strains on the Dark Web-- a piece of spyware dubbed MacSpy and MacRansom, an example of Mac ransomware.

The two pieces of malware are the work of the same developer (or cybercriminal group), and are found on almost identical Dark Web portals. Both websites run on a "closed" manner, meaning interested parties have to contact the malware creator for demo packages and the price negotiations.

Following the initial Bleeping Computer report, security researchers at Fortinet and AlienVault managed to get samples of the Mac malware. The two companies believe MacSpy and MacRansom are the work of an inexperienced coder, since MacRansom is not a digitally signed file (meaning it triggers security alerts if executed as a standard macOS installation) and MacSpy is built from code copy-pasted from Stack Overflow.

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Microsoft: Windows 10 PCs total 500 Million

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Microsoft: Windows 10 PCs total 500 Million

Microsoft opens the 2017 Build developer conference with the announcement that Windows 10 machines total 500 million, 8 months after it revealed 400m devices run on the latest version of the OS.

Back in April 2016 the company was hoping to have 1 billion devices running on Windows 10 by 2018. However, by July 2016 it was forced to revise the perhaps overly optimistic forecast, especially following the failure of Windows-powered smartphones to capture the imagination.

In fact, Microsoft was hoping to sell 50 million Windows 10 Mobile devices-- a number currently clocking at, well, around zero, leaving something of a gap in the expected userbase.

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