Gregg Keizer

Mac users who want to check out the next version of Safari, which has undergone an extensive UI overhaul, can do so without having to wait for macOS Monterey preview to arrive.

Vivaldi 4.0, which includes an email client, calendar, and RSS reader, reflects a strategy reminiscent of Netscape Navigator.

Support for the OS ends in four years. And while that date raised eyebrows this week, it’s important to remember that before Windows 10’s 2015, launch, Microsoft declared it would only offer updates for 10 years — until October 2025.

The move, which was unveiled last August, ‘didn’t move relevant security metrics,’ according to a Google staff software engineer on the Chrome team.

In two weeks, Microsoft, plans to unveil the “next generation” of Windows. But isn’t Windows 10 supposed to be the last generation of the ubiquitous OS?

Windows 10X is officially out. So what’s coming next for Windows 10? At this week’s Build event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella teased serious updates “very soon.”

The company plans to retire Internet Explorer 11 next year, putting it on the path to a long, slow lingering death as the company fully embraces Microsoft Edge.

‘Project Fission’ is part of a long-term effort by Mozilla to harden Firefox’s defenses by isolating malicious sites and components.

The year’s first feature upgrade for Windows 10 arrived this week with little fanfare, largely because it offers little new functionality because Microsoft has abandoned its major-minor release cadence.

Windows 10X was expected to launch in the spring of 2021 in place of the year’s first-half Windows 10 feature upgrade. Didn’t happen.

Edge users in IT-managed environments will continue to get all updates via established IT-directed channels. Meanwhile, Mozilla is rolling out a new background update process for its browser.

Microsoft has launched a public preview of the APIs IT admins can use to control Windows Update for Business Deployment Service — part of the company’s efforts to push commercial customers toward cloud-only servicing for Windows 10.

Microsoft plans to continue to offer a “perpetual” version of Office for enterprises, with the latest in that line due out later this year. So just what is Office LTSC, and what’s it mean for enterprises?

Microsoft has released to corporate customers a preview of its next pay-once, perpetual license version of Office: the tongue-twistingly named Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021.

Last year’s supply-chain disruptions and increased demand brought on by the pandemic both contributed to the sustained growth.

The changes, which would replace WSUS and are part of an effort by Microsoft to pull IT to the cloud, are due out by the end of June.

The web browser from Brave Software relies on an unusual business model: it strips out ads from websites, replaces them with its own ads, then allows users to send money to sites they like.

While the pandemic in some ways may be easing, both companies are sticking with online-only events for developers this year.

The Windows release health dashboard, which the company previewed at its Ignite conference, details known issues and blockers affecting Windows 10.

The company has launched a new bug bounty program for Teams that offers as much as $30,000 to security researchers for previously-unknown vulnerabilities. It’s a sign of the software’s growing importance.