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The end of the line for PHP on Windows
Microsoft will no longer build new releases of PHP for Windows. What does the Windows Web application development future look like?
Microsoft ports open source Java to Windows 10 on ARM
Initial changes by Microsoft’s Java Engineering Group and Red Hat will be upstreamed to the OpenJDK project
6 Windows desktop utilities every software developer needs
Screen capture, image management, clipboard enhancements, and other handy tools to enhance a developer’s daily workflow
Amid the pandemic, using trust to fight shadow IT
With most workers scattered at home and trying to come up with their own ad-hoc IT workarounds, there’s an easy way for IT shops to build trust: communicate.
Developing for Windows 10X and the Surface Neo
The wraps are slowly coming off a new generation of Windows
5 Microsoft developer tools and technologies to explore in 2020
What should Microsoft platform developers focus on in 2020? .NET 5, WinUI 3.0, AKS, WSL 2, and Azure Sphere, for starters
Python and Windows get cozier
Microsoft makes it easy to install and use Python in Windows and in Visual Studio Code
WinUI 3.0: The future of Windows controls
Microsoft’s new UI framework for Windows starts to come together, with an alpha release
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How to set up Microsoft Teams for security and compliance
These are the security and compliance decisions you need to make when deploying Microsoft Teams.
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How to disable basic or legacy authentication to set up MFA in Office 365
Microsoft recommends setting up multi-factor authentication in Windows 10 for better security, but you have to disable basic or legacy authentication first.
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How to avoid using RDP in Windows
Several new vulnerability disclosures in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol suggest it’s time to stop using it. Here’s how.
Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL 2
Microsoft and Docker’s Linux development collaboration is starting to pay off for cloud developers
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Windows 10: Answers to your most important questions | TECH(talk)
Computerworld’s Windows expert, Preston Gralla, and Executive Editor Ken Mingis answer questions about Windows 10 and discuss how the operating system is still evolving.
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How to set up Edge Chromium security options
Edge Chromium can provide more protection for organizations that use older versions of Windows.
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How an attacker can target phishing attacks
There are a number of ways attackers can exploit public information about your organization's employees. CSO Online's Susan Bradley walks through how an attacker can gain access to your organization's Office 365 accounts and how you...
An introduction to WSL 2
The Windows Subsystem for Linux gets a major overhaul; now adding a full Linux kernel
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How to set up Azure AD to spot risky users
You have several options to set up alerts in Azure Active Directory to help spot risky user behavior.
Quark taps JavaScript to build ‘native’ desktop apps
Tool combines the Electron framework and a shared JavaScript runtime to create lightweight “sketches” with native app capabilities
Get started with Rust in Windows programming
Microsoft signals that it might support Mozilla’s memory-safe alternative to C and C++
How to use the Dapper ORM in C#
Take advantage of the lightweight, open source Dapper to simplify data access and ensure high performance