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In something of a turnaround, Windows Defender is now matching and outperforming many free and commercial antivirus solutions.

Because AI that requires human intervention is only artificial, not intelligence, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new Edge milestone and why so few people seem interested, Xbox’s voyeurism problem, Microsoft’s further embrace of open-source, and so much more.

Version 0.3 of Windows Terminal lets you connect directly to Azure Cloud Shell, here’s how you can do that.

Microsoft’s new Edge browser is ready for beta testing but don’t expect the final release to be available anytime soon.

How to use Key Vault References in Azure App Services for the most flexible and secure approach to reading sensitive configuration settings.

Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 10 and in this new 19h2 release, there are a couple of new enterprise features coming to the OS.

It’s great when Microsoft introduces new functionality to SharePoint Online to make the lives of administrators and users easier, which is what the Restore this library feature is all about. Then problems happen, and we understand where the flaw lines exist. Recovering from a recent ransomware attack caused one Office 365 tenant more problems than they thought likely because Restore this library didn’t work as well as expected.

A new report by firmware and hardware security research company Eclypsium says that 40 drivers it tested from different vendors were all found to contain security flaws and all were certified by Microsoft.

With Azure continuing to be the backbone of Microsoft’s future, the company won’t let anything get in the way of them improving the performance and features of the service. After growth in Java workloads on the cloud service, the company is acquiring jClarity to optimize the workloads.

There are two critical components of all disaster recovery (DR) plans: backup and recovery. Backup lays the foundation of all DR plans and the recovery aspect determines how quickly your operation can be restored to nominal activity.

Because wormable is a fun word, this edition of Short Takes looks at a serious new Microsoft update warning, Surface PCs getting throttled by a firmware update, Cortana’s summer of defeat, human-powered AI, and much more.

This month Microsoft patches ‘wormable’ vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop that it discovered during routine hardening, remote code execution flaws in Edge and IE, and a new advisory for LDAP security is issued for Active Directory.