Linus Torvalds recently defended Windows' infamous Blue Screen of Death during a video with Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips, where the two built a PC together. It's FOSS reports: In that video, Sebastian discussed Torvalds' fondness for ECC (Error Correction Code). I am using their last name because Linus will be confused with Linus. This is where Torvalds says this: "I am convinced that all the jokes about how unstable Windows is and blue screening, I guess it's not a blue screen anymore, a big percentage of those were not actually software bugs. A big percentage of those are hardware being not reliable." Torvalds further mentioned that gamers who overclock get extra unreliability. Essentially, Torvalds believes that having ECC on the machine makes them more reliable, makes you trust your machine. Without ECC, the memory will go bad, sooner or later. He thinks that more than software bugs, often it is hardware behind Microsoft's blue screen of death. You can watch the video on YouTube (the BSOD comments occur at ~9:37).

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Le Microsoft Excel World Championship s'est déroulé à Las Vegas du 1er au 3 décembre, opposant passionnés et professionnels sur des défis de logique et de modélisation. C’est un Américain, cinq fois finaliste, qui s’est hissé au sommet de cette saison d'esport Excel.

Microsoft : Personne ne veut de l'IA ? On vous en mettra quand même.
Also Microsoft : Oh regardez il y a plein d'IA dans vos produits ! Ben du coup il faut augmenter les prix de l'abonnement, hein !
Ce niveau de foutage de gueule.
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Ancient Slashdot user Alain Williams shares a report from Al Jazeera: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has announced it filed a complaint against Microsoft, accusing the global tech giant of unlawfully processing data on behalf of the Israeli military and facilitating the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. In the complaint, the council asked the Data Protection Commission -- the European Union's lead data regulator for the company -- to "urgently investigate" Microsoft Ireland's processing. "Microsoft's technology has put millions of Palestinians in danger. These are not abstract data-protection failures -- they are violations that have enabled real-world violence," Joe O'Brien, ICCL's executive director, said in a statement. "When EU infrastructure is used to enable surveillance and targeting, the Irish Data Protection Commission must step in -- and it must use its full powers to hold Microsoft to account." After months of complaints from rights groups and Microsoft whistleblowers, the company said in September it cancelled some services to the Israeli military over concerns that it was violating Microsoft's terms of service by using cloud computing software to spy on millions of Palestinians.

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Référencée sous le nom technique de CVE-2025-9491, une faille présente dans les fichiers raccourcis Windows (.lnk) était exploitée depuis des années par des groupes d’espionnage et des cybercriminels, pour sa capacité à injecter du code malveillant de façon cachée.

À une semaine d'un possible sacre absolu à l'occasion de la cérémonie des The Game Awards, Sandfall Interactive a tenu à remercier Microsoft pour son soutien envers Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. De son côté, la multinationale a indiqué que le RPG n'est autre que « le plus gros lancement d’un studio partenaire dans le Xbox Game Pass en 2025 ».

Despite Windows 10 losing free support, Statcounter shows Windows 11 holding only a modest lead of 53.7% market share compared to Windows 10's 42.7%. Analysts say the slow transition reflects both hardware limitations and a lack of must-have Windows 11 features compelling organizations to refresh their fleets. The Register reports: The Register spoke to Lansweeper principal technical evangelist Esben Dochy, who noted that consumers were more likely to have devices that couldn't be upgraded or follow the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule when it comes to change. He also pointed out consumers in the EU get Microsoft Extended Security Updates (ESU) for free. For businesses, though, it's different. Dochy told us: "The primary blocker is slow change management processes. These can be slow due to bad planning, lack of resources, difficulty in execution (in highly distributed organizations) etc. "The ESU are used to be secure while those change management processes take place, but organizations will have to pay to get those ESU making it more expensive for unprepared or inefficient organizations." [...] The challenge facing Windows 11 is that, other than the end of free support for many versions, there is no must-have feature to make enterprises break a hardware refresh cycle, particularly in a difficult economic environment. Microsoft has not released official statistics on Windows 11 adoption. However, hardware vendors have noted the sluggish pace of transition. Dell COO Jeffrey Clarke commented during an analyst call: "If you were to look at it relative to the previous OS end of support, we are 10-12 points behind at that point with Windows 11 than we were with the previous generation."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Multiple divisions at Microsoft have lowered sales growth targets for certain artificial intelligence products after many sales staff missed goals in the fiscal year that ended in June, The Information reported on Wednesday. It is rare for Microsoft to lower quotas for specific products, the report said, citing two salespeople in the Azure cloud unit. The division is closely watched by investors as it is the main beneficiary of Microsoft's AI push. [...] The Information report said Carlyle Group last year started using Copilot Studio to automate tasks such as meeting summaries and financial models, but cut its spending on the product after flagging Microsoft about its struggles to get the software to reliably pull data from other applications. The report shows the industry was in the early stages of adopting AI, said D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria. "That does not mean there isn't promise for AI products to help companies become more productive, just that it may be harder than they thought."

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[Deal du jour] Plutôt que de lâcher beaucoup d'argent dans un abonnement mensuel, il faut parfois attendre les bons plans gaming. Une offre spéciale permet en ce moment d'avoir 12 mois de Game Pass Ultimate à seulement 139 €.

Au menu de ce récap : la dépendance technologique tenace d'Airbus, qui échoue depuis 7 ans à se défaire des outils Microsoft, et l'alerte lancée par la Chine face à une production de robots humanoïdes qui devient incontrôlable.

Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch. The Register: As we exclusively revealed in March 2018, the aerospace giant told 130,000 employees it was ditching Microsoft's productivity tools for Google's cloud-based alternatives. Then-CEO Tom Enders predicted migration would finish in 18 months, a timeline that, in hindsight, was "extremely ambitious," according to Catherine Jestin, Airbus's executive vice president of digital. Today, more than two-thirds of Airbus's 150,000 employees have fully transitioned, but significant pockets continue to use Microsoft in parallel. Finance, for example, still relies on Excel because Google Sheets can't handle the necessary file sizes, as some spreadsheets involve 20 million cells. "Some of the limitations was just the number of cells that you could have in one single file. We'll definitely start to remove some of the work," Jestin told The Register.

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Dans un entretien accordé au site britannique The Register, Catherine Jestin, vice-présidente exécutive du numérique chez Airbus, est revenue sur les difficultés de son entreprise à s'extirper de sa dépendance envers les produits Microsoft. Un objectif qui dure pourtant depuis plus de 7 ans.

Après la catastrophe mondiale évitée de justesse (https://sebsauvage.net/links/?iRQskQ), Microsoft va protéger le formulaire de login de son EntraID contre les injections javascript...  fin 2026.
Oui, fin de l'année prochaine.
Donc un an pour implémenter CSP (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy)
Quelle blague.
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Les mises à jour de Windows 11 ça a l'air de bien de passer :
https://www.it-connect.fr/ce-bug-windows-11-24h2-rend-inutilisable-le-menu-demarrer-et-la-barre-des-taches/
https://www.it-connect.fr/windows-11-ignore-votre-strategie-windows-update-et-redemarre-sans-prevenir-que-se-passe-t-il/
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La Xbox 360, console de salon la plus vendue de l'histoire de Microsoft, fête ses 20 ans. La multinationale a prévu quelques festivités, mais, semble-t-il, rien de bien marquant. Et on se dit qu'elle mérite bien plus qu'une paire de chaussures de la marque Crocs.

Touché par la pénurie mondiale de RAM, Microsoft prévoirait une hausse des tarifs de la Xbox Series X et S. Une situation qui pourrait bien finir par s'étendre à l'ensemble des constructeurs, ainsi qu'à certains segments du marché de la tech.

Dégradation de la qualité de Windows : même Microsoft admet qu'il y a des problèmes.

EDIT: Et encore... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-out-of-band-update-fixes-windows-11-hotpatch-install-loop/
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Thunderbird va avoir un support natif de cette monstruosité qu'est Microsoft Exchange.
Cela évitera de passer par la passerelle IMAP toute pourrie de Microsoft.

"Microsoft : Nous réinventons la roue depuis 1980.“
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