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omnivorous UK tech journalist; girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries ☕ https://t.co/z4EbS0huJ6. she/her. Warning; contains opinions.
Jan 4, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
I've been waiting impatiently for PCs with Pluton in since late 2020: here's me explaining what Pluton is, how it comes from Xbox (and why hardware security is different on Xbox) techrepublic.com/article/micros… in future, Pluton will attest to the hardware security of a PC for device management services like Intune through the Microsoft Azure Attestation service blogs.windows.com/windowsexperie…
Aug 6, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
A couple of setting to remember to change when you set up a new PC (and to check if you have set on your old PC, for that matter). 1 update restart notifications - having this on by default would fix 90% of the complaints I see about Windows updating without warning 2 how much do you want to help distribute Windows updates? this speeds other people up but if your upload bandwidth isn't the best, go turn this down (you can't turn it off)