Miscellaneous Tech News
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“Energizing Times”: Microsoft to “go big” at E3 in response to Google Stadia
Microsoft gaming chief impressed but unsurprised by Google's announcement.
Microsoft announced its Xcloud game-streaming service last August, with the ambition of streaming console-quality games to gamers wherever they are—on their tablets, smartphones, PCs or even consoles. Yesterday, Google joined the streaming gaming fray with its announcement of Google Stadia, one-upping Redmond by offering the assembled press limited hands-on access to Stadia games.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
console-quality games to gamers
that's enough to make you not interested right there.
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Windows Defender antivirus coming to macOS, renamed Microsoft Defender
Microsoft is expanding the reach of its device management services.
Microsoft is bringing its Windows Defender anti-malware application to macOS—and more platforms in the future—as it expands the reach of its Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) platform. To reflect the new cross-platform nature, the suite is also being renamed to Microsoft Defender ATP, with the individual clients being labelled "for Mac" or "for Windows."
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@mlnews that's pretty cool. As a shop that uses that, that's a pretty nice expansion.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews that's pretty cool. As a shop that uses that, that's a pretty nice expansion.
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
There is a paid version?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I didn't read the link - is it the free version? or only the paid version?
There is a paid version?
Pretty sure APT is the paid version. The version on Windows 10 is just called
WindowsMicrosoft Defender. The Defender APT is what you get with Microsoft 365 - or as a stand alone product (or perhaps part of Intune). -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pretty sure APT is the paid version.
Oh, I see. The article mixes the two as if they are the same - bad reporting.
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ATP is "agentless", which means they define ATP as the cloud portion that can't "come to" macOS or whatever. So what we saw in the article has to be Defender, not ATP, or else that have to redefine what ATP is.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows-atp
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Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview
Preview is now available in two Azure regions.
The service brings together single-user Windows 7 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and multi-user Windows 10 and Windows Server remote desktop services (RDS) and is hosted on any of Azure's virtual machine tiers. Microsoft is pricing WVD aggressively by charging only for the virtual machine costs; the license requirements for the Windows 7- and Windows 10-based services will be fulfilled by Microsoft 365 F1/E3/E, Windows 10 Enterprise E3/E5, and Windows VDA subscriptions.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ATP is "agentless", which means they define ATP as the cloud portion that can't "come to" macOS or whatever. So what we saw in the article has to be Defender, not ATP, or else that have to redefine what ATP is.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows-atp
I think it's more of a suite - a local client which also works with the cloud for the bulk of it's AI smarts.
I'm 99% sure this will not be free in any way for the mac.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ATP is "agentless", which means they define ATP as the cloud portion that can't "come to" macOS or whatever. So what we saw in the article has to be Defender, not ATP, or else that have to redefine what ATP is.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows-atp
I think it's more of a suite - a local client which also works with the cloud for the bulk of it's AI smarts.
I'm 99% sure this will not be free in any way for the mac.
All the Apple fanboys have plenty of money to piss away, buying this won't even be a drop in the bucket to them.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think it's more of a suite - a local client which also works with the cloud for the bulk of it's AI smarts.
Microsoft defines ATP as agentless. It's part of the advertising.
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HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China
HMD calls the event "an error" and has issued a patch.
HMD is in hot water following a report from Norwegian site NRKbeta, which found that HMD's Nokia 7 Plus was sending users' personal information to a server in China. HMD responded to the report, admitting, "Our device activation client meant for another country was mistakenly included in the software package of a single batch of Nokia 7 Plus."
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BBC News - Facebook staff 'flagged Cambridge Analytica fears earlier than thought'
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Clippy briefly resurrected as Teams add-on, brutally taken down by brand police
Microsoft apparently hates fun.
Clippy is, after all, far more expressive than Cortana. While Clippy and Cortana share a tendency to reshape their basic form to meet the needs of the task at hand—Clippy can distort itself into a question mark or an envelope or whatever, and Cortana can deviate from her usual circular form—Clippy has a killer advantage in that it has eyes, and more particularly, eyebrows, enabling a range of emotions such as incredulity and contemptuous pity that Cortana can only dream of.
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Liveblog: Apple unveils its TV service and more at the March 25 “It’s show time” event
Follow everything Apple announces in an unprecedented event.
At 10am Pacific on Monday, March 25, Apple and its partners will take the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, Calif., to talk about a new TV-streaming platform, a new magazine-subscription service, and possibly much more. We'll be liveblogging the event as it happens, so join us here a few minutes before the show for all the updates.
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Apple News+: a newsstand of 300 glossy magazines for $9.99/month
The service brings content from a wide range of publications under one digital roof.
As expected, Apple has announced a magazine subscription service built on top of its acquisition last year of Texture. Called Apple News+, it will offer fully browsable, digital versions of over 300 print magazines and newspapers like Wired, GQ, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. The service also includes a number of digital-only publications.
