Today's release also includes a bulletin that addresses the Windows 8.1 zero-day flaw that was discovered by Google.
The company cited that the general lack of interest by organizations led to the change.
In more than three decades of closely observing Microsoft, there's never been a year as unpredictable as the past 12 months in Redmond.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 01/08/2015
The improved and replaced cert, now available, is called MCSE: Enterprise Devices and Apps.
- By Greg Shields
- 01/07/2015
Microsoft has added a data deduplication capability to its System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager product.
Microsoft plans to deliver .NET Framework 4.5.2, along with Language Packs, on "patch Tuesday" next week.
Here's what to expect from Microsoft this year
Is Microsoft finally preparing a version of Hyper-V that can compete with VMware?
Today's release looks to fix 25 flaws in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office.
Windows 10's next iteration will be a "January technical preview" release that's expected to appear sometime next month, according to a press report.
What a difference a year has made for Microsoft.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/03/2014
Microsoft quietly raised the price of its Professional Support services for its U.S. software customers to $499 per incident.
Hyper-V virtual machine protection in a private cloud or the Azure cloud is simplified with the new replication and recovery service.
The company's 2014 will go down as one of the busiest for the company, and these five changes will help to define the Microsoft of tomorrow.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 12/01/2014
Microsoft released a crypto fix that has been seen to be in limited exploit against Windows Server.