Any regular followers of this site will know that I am a strong advocate of fully licencing software with a valid licence and keeping your licenced software up to date. If you want to read about the consequences of not doing this please see my blog The Dangers to using Unsupported Devices and Software. Microsoft in... Continue Reading →
UPDATED 31 May 2019 If you are still on Windows 7, and a corporate without an exit strategy, you need to take note of two things: Window's 7 ceases extended support in January 2020, after which you won't get any security patchesUpdates happening in the next few months, if not applied, will stop your security... Continue Reading →
Normally in May Microsoft hold their annual developers conference called Microsoft Build (and for this year and last year (2018) it clashed with the Google IO developer conference - not sure if that is by design or just bad planning) . You need to understand where Microsoft is right now in relation to what services... Continue Reading →
When was the last time you received an update to the device you are reading this on? If it was within the last month, you are among the lucky ones. If you are on a Windows 10 PC, Mac, iPhone/iPad then you will receive regular updates, but if you are on Android, then its a... Continue Reading →
In the last couple of days Microsoft have announced a few changes to the way Windows 10 is updated. First, let me just set the current state of affairs. Windows 10 feature updates (the major half yearly updates) just appear on your PC when Microsoft deems your device is ready to be updated. It then... Continue Reading →
This is a bit technical, so I will try to explain it in simple language that most people can understand, and if you want to read the technical detail I will post a link to the research at the end of this blog post. A lot of PC's and Laptops (Windows, Mac's and Linux based... Continue Reading →
