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  1. Alright, I know that headline is a bold statement. Windows 8 was one of the most widely reviled iterations of Microsoft’s flagship OS - released at a time when everyone was still yearning for the functional simplicity of Windows XP, and sporting a weird tile-based UI designed to benefit the Surface tablet line, a product series that Microsoft has never seemed fully able to commit to. I won't lie, I was riding the Windows 8 hate train at the time; hell, I was the damn conductor, and I owned a Surface. The biggest failing of the OS, to my mind, was that it also included the option to swap to a conventional (and frankly, better) Windows desktop interface, but not by default - adding an annoying extra step to getting to my desktop every time I fired up my device. To make matters worse, the Surface didn't need a tablet-style UI. Part of the appeal was that it was a tablet with the functionality of the best Windows laptops, so I simply didn't want a different UI - I wanted a laptop. But what if that tile screen was actually good - just ahead of its time? The classic Surface is an object of nostalgia for me - but not because of its operating system, that's for sure. (Image credit: Microsoft) Surface tablets are still a feeble competitor to the Apple iPad, if market share is anything to go off, but there's a new breed of Windows device in town: gaming handhelds. After the success of Valve’s Steam Deck, we've seen a handful of Windows-powered imitators: the Asus ROG Ally, the Lenovo Legion Go, and the upcoming MSI Claw, just to name a few. I have a ROG Ally and genuinely love it - the freedom to play my favorite PC games on the go (or in bed) is just great. Most recently, I've been enjoying the rather excellent 2017 Prey reboot, which runs shockingly well on Asus’s handheld. The hardware is impressive: the Ally is a solidly designed device from Asus, and the AMD Z1 Extreme chip powering it is nothing short of incredible. The Ally’s key problem, however - much like other PC gaming handhelds - is that it runs Windows 11. The weakness of Windows At the end of the day, Windows 11 is designed to be used with a mouse and keyboard. That's not really a failure on Microsoft's part; it's an OS primarily used on laptops on desktop PCs, after all. But it's poorly suited for use on a device with a tiny screen and not even a touchpad for mouse control. Windows 8, on the other hand, was built with touch controls in mind, which was a tad redundant when I could (and did) simply connect a wireless mouse to my Surface when I was using it in laptop mode. Sure, I could hook up a mouse to my Ally, but that would defeat the purpose of using it rather than making my life easier. Windows 11 is great, but it's poorly suited for small touchscreen devices. (Image credit: Microsoft) The tile layout of Windows 8 was synonymous with Windows Phone OS, which I still maintain was a well-designed mobile UI that only failed due to the weakness of the Microsoft Store compared to Apple and Google’s rival offerings. It was highly customizable, easy to navigate, and aesthetically pleasing. I imagine how fantastic a similar UI could be on the ROG Ally, and I weep for Asus and AMD - all their hard work partially undone by Microsoft’s refusal to make a proper ‘handheld mode’ for Windows. Square solutions As more similar devices hit the market (I'm sitting on a train, on my way to demo MSI’s new Claw handheld as I write this very article), Microsoft has the perfect opportunity to capitalize on this trend. Part of the Steam Deck’s appeal is its simple but effective SteamOS interface; the ROG Ally has pre-installed Asus Armory Crate software that acts as a nice, easy-to-use base from which to browse and launch your games, but you still have to navigate through Windows 11 to get there. It's an irritating obstacle that - quite ironically - echoes my frustrations with using Windows 8 back in the day. So I'm asking politely, Microsoft: sort out a better version of your OS for these handhelds. The best part? You barely even need to do any new design work, guys! The Windows 8 tile layout looked fine, and I'd be more than happy to see a similar desktop UI implemented for future gaming handhelds. It could also eliminate the need for wonky third-party software in one fell swoop, securing your OS dominance in the handheld market. With Windows 12 on the horizon, now's the time to strike. Pretty please, Microsoft? View the full article
  2. Microsoft just announced that Copilot is rolling out to more Windows 11 users right now, and also it’ll be inbound to more Windows 10 users soon enough. Neowin spotted the revelation in the Windows message center where Microsoft let us know that Copilot is coming to a wider audience – so, if you haven’t seen the AI assistant yet, you may well do soon enough. Microsoft also let us know that from this week, it’s possible to use up to 10 queries with Copilot before you have to sign in to your Microsoft account. So, you can give the AI a bit of a try even if you don’t have an active Microsoft account on your Windows installation. The ‘new wave’ of Copilot additions is happening now with Windows 11 (23H2 and 22H2), at least for consumers (with businesses, it will depend on admin policies). And eligible Windows 10 devices on Home or Pro versions (22H2) will start to get Copilot in this broader rollout later in March – so within the next week. Microsoft tells us: “This current rollout phase will reach most of its targeted Windows 11 and 10 devices by the end of May.” Meanwhile, Microsoft is also busy expanding Copilot’s repertoire of tricks regarding changing Windows settings, though it’s very slow going on that front thus far. Analysis: AI for everyone It sounds like most folks will have Copilot by the end of May, then. We’ve already seen it arrive on our Windows 10 PC, so that rollout is definitely already underway – it’s just about to step up to another level. How will you know if you get Copilot? You can’t miss the colorful icon which will appear in the taskbar, on the far right (in the system tray). It’s marked with a ‘Pre’ on the icon to denote that the AI is still in preview, so it’s still possible to experience wonky or odd behavior when running queries with Copilot. While you can turn off the Copilot icon if you don’t want to see it, you can’t actually remove the AI from Windows as such (not yet) – it’ll still be lurking in the background, even if you never access it. That said, there are ways to extract Copilot from your Windows installation, such as using third-party apps (though we wouldn’t recommend doing so, as previously discussed). You might also like... Watch out: soon some older PCs will lose Windows 11 supportWindows 11 is getting a voice-powered ability many users have been longing forDon’t make these 5 big mistakes when using Windows 11 View the full article
  3. Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Windows Defender SmartScreen to infect crypto traders with malware. Researchers from Trend Micro revealed a threat actor going by Water Hydra (AKA DarkCasino) abused the zero-day, now tracked as CVE-2024-21412, in attacks conducted on New Year’s Eve 2023. Microsoft has since released a patch, and in a follow-up advisory, explained that an unauthenticated attacker “could send the targeted user a specially crafted file that is designed to bypass displayed security checks." Spearphishing on Telegram Microsoft further explained that the attack still relies on victim action: "However, the attacker would have no way to force a user to view the attacker-controlled content. Instead, the attacker would have to convince them to take action by clicking on the file link." Trend Micro claims Water Hydra was joining Telegram channels and forums for forex, stock, and crypto traders, and used spearphishing techniques to get people to install the DarkMe malware. The group shared a stock chart that linked to fxbulls[.]ru, a compromised Russian trading information site that, in fact, impersonates fxbulls[.]com, a forex broker platform. DarkMe, while dangerous on its own, was just a step towards the final goal, which was to deploy ransomware, the researchers claim. "In late December 2023, we began tracking a campaign by the Water Hydra group that contained similar tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) that involved abusing internet shortcuts (.URL) and Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) components," Trend Micro explained. "We concluded that calling a shortcut within another shortcut was sufficient to evade SmartScreen, which failed to properly apply Mark-of-the-Web (MotW), a critical Windows component that alerts users when opening or running files from an untrusted source." The crypto industry has always been a popular target for cybercriminals. However, with bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) finally approved, and the Bitcoin halving just two months away, the crypto industry is poised for yet another eye-watering bull run. This, as was the case in the past, will also attract more criminals. Via BleepingComputer More from TechRadar Pro This nasty Windows 10 zero-day vulnerability finally has an unofficial fixHere's a list of the best firewalls around todayThese are the best endpoint security tools right now View the full article
  4. We are excited to announce that AWS Fargate for Windows containers on Amazon ECS has reduced infrastructure pricing by up to 49%. Fargate simplifies the adoption of modern container technology for ECS customers by making it even easier to run their Windows containers on AWS. With Fargate, customers no longer need to set up automatic scaling groups or manage host instances for their application. View the full article
  5. Windows 11 has never been more compact, with NTDEV's ‘tiny11 core’ shrinking the ISO to 2GB and the install footprint to 3.3GB. View the full article
  6. The post Terraform: Create Azure Windows VM with file, remote-exec & local-exec provisioner appeared first on DevOpsSchool.com. View the full article
  7. Windows 11 23H2 is now available but it may take Microsoft a month or more to roll the update out to your computer. Get the update now and on your schedule.View the full article
  8. Customers can now assess their EC2 workloads running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Debian 10, and Windows Server 2019 for CVEs and external network accessibility using Inspector. Amazon Inspector is available in the following 14 regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), AWS GovCloud (US-West), and AWS GovCloud (US-East). View the full article
  9. AWS App2Container (A2C) is a command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized applications. A2C analyzes and builds an inventory of all applications running in virtual machines, on-premises or in the cloud. You simply select the application you want to containerize, and A2C packages the application artifact and identified dependencies into container images, configures the network ports, and generates the ECS task and Kubernetes pod definitions. View the full article
  10. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a fully managed service that provides shared file storage built on Windows Server, today announced that you can now access file systems using any Domain Name System (DNS) name of your choosing. Each Amazon FSx file system has a default DNS name for accessing it. Starting today, you can now also associate alternate DNS names for accessing your file systems. View the full article
  11. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports the use of Amazon FSx for Windows File Server in Amazon ECS task definitions. With this capability, you can now use persistent, shared storage across ECS containers. Customers can use Amazon FSx for their Windows containers in task definitions compatible with the EC2 launch type. Amazon ECS tasks using Amazon FSx will automatically mount the file systems specified by the customer in the task definition and make them available to the containers in the task across all availability zones in an AWS Region. View the full article
  12. You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to perform single-instance deployments of Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server and Ubuntu Server. View the full article
  13. Running Windows workloads on Red Hat OpenShift has been a regular request from numerous customers over the years. Given Windows Server enjoys a significant presence in the server operating system market and C# is in the top 6 programming languages, we see there is an enormous opportunity to accelerate customer adoption of Windows Server applications to public cloud via containers. To make this happen, Red Hat partnered with Microsoft to announce a Developer Preview for running Windows Server Containers in OpenShift 4.4. The architecture involves letting Windows run Windows Server containers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux run Red Hat Enterprise Linux containers, with OpenShift orchestrating them both as building blocks to compose your next generation applications. View the full article
  14. Canonical has the largest collection of application operators. The support now extends to traditional applications on Linux and Windows. A Kubernetes operator is a trusted container that driver other containers making administration easier for you. Canonical’s Open Operator Collection is an open-source initiative to provide a large number of operators that you can integrate for common workloads. View the full article
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