"This is a very serious breach of user trust. Not only is this package delivered without explicit approval, it's also made difficult to remove. Moreover, its use is not clear. Lastly, the change affects third-party software, not one of Microsoft products, so the question is, what the hell did Microsoft want to achieve with this nebulous, spyware-like update?"
That question was posed by the author of Dedoimedo, a website specialising in step-by-step tutorials, when he found that the latest update to Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (KB951847) secretly added a strange new component to Firefox ...
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
some kid posted this on gametrailers forums and people laughed at him. he also said something about xbox users having a secret place they gather loyal fans at to go on random forums and post bad crap about the ps3...at first i laughed but wow, reading this confirms he was right...
EDIT* i will edit this cus i remember, his original post said microsoft wanted to destroy the ps3s webbrowser by making the ps3 way slower. wow, people said why would microsoft risk such a thing, and if this turns out to be true, goodbye it is DOUBLE EDIT* wow, i was so interested in this story, i went and found the forum post, it went to 11 pages before it got locked, but the OP was dead on if this is true. http://forums.gametrailers....
That seems really weird, and really it should be approved by the user, or at least mentioned in the Microsoft documentation. I'm curious as to what it does now...
Well I don't know if the Firefox team can post and lawsuits solely because of the way their browser was built. The article doesn't mention what the plugin does, what if Microsoft wants to expand Firefox functionality has a gateway drug to bring people to Internet Explorer like they do with the Mac?
Really strange addon. Though I have my doubts that Microsoft actually did this, it's more likely that a hacker / disgruntled Mozilla worker slipped this in and tried to pin the blame on Microsoft. But I guess anything is possible.
Luckily I do not have this installed on my Firefox so I don't have to deal with it.
Edit: Thanks Lord Anubis, that's pretty bizarre to be sure.
I wonder where this will lead.