Microsoft shipped Windows 10 with a number of protection mechanisms built in such as Windows Defender and SmartScreen. But if there's an executable you need to run and are a little suspicious of what ...

An examination of Microsoft’s Customer License Agreement (CLA) for embedded systems indicates that there is no provision for a vendor to ship appliances with multiple virtual instances of Windows, or ...

In a notable, and some might say uncharacteristic move, Microsoft has released the Live Labs Web Sandbox project source code under the Apache License 2.0. Web Sandbox is a solution to the problem of ...

Windows Sandbox is here to protect your PC. A simple, virtualized Windows within Windows, it’s a place where an app can be safely run if you’re worried it might be malware. Microsoft announced Windows ...

A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated ...

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Microsoft Defender Application Guard’s Hyper-V malicious detection is being abandoned in favor of a faster rules-based design ...

Microsoft this week offered some guidance for organizations dealing with the coming demise of code-based sandbox support in SharePoint sites. Organizations may be reeling a bit after Microsoft's ...

How about combining Twitter’s micro-blogging, with location-awareness, a robust network that won’t go down and a map of links to 20,000 local news sources? That’s Microsoft’s attempt to do Twitter one ...