Microsoft has announced that the classic .NET Framework version 3.5 will no longer be part of the operating system setup in Windows 11 starting in 2026. Previously, .NET Framework 3.5 was an optional ...

Legacy .NET Framework version is now available as a standalone installer for applications that require it on newer versions of Windows. Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3 ...

Publishers have finally gained a content-licensing framework that provides a new revenue stream. During the past several months, Microsoft has been co-designing the “Publisher Content Marketplace” ...

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Researcher warns that many .NET applications might be vulnerable to arbitrary file writes because .NET’s HTTP client proxy classes also accept non-HTTP URLs, a behavior developers are responsible to ...

Microsoft has revealed it has collaborated with Ciena to define a blueprint for what it calls a zero-trust tiered optical network architecture. In a white paper explaining the nature of the ...

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Microsoft Research has developed a new reinforcement learning framework that trains large language models for complex reasoning tasks at a fraction of the usual computational cost. The framework, ...

A new variant of the banking trojan 'Coyote' has begun abusing a Windows accessibility feature, Microsoft's UI Automation framework, to identify which banking and cryptocurrency exchange sites are ...