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Microsoft is going public with its step-by-step plan for removing Adobe Flash support in Windows by the end of 2020. Adobe finally has drawn a line in the sand, noting that  Flash will no longer be supported after 2020 . Microsoft officials said they'd do their part to wind down Flash support in the company's Internet and Edge browsers, so that  Flash support will be entirely removed from Windows by the end of 2020 , as well. Flash in Edge already is only click-to-run, as of the Windows 10 Creators Update. Today, Microsoft posted its timeline and plan for getting rid of Flash over the next three years. From Microsoft's post: Through the end of 2017 and into 2018, Microsoft Edge will continue to ask users for permission to run Flash on most sites the first time the site is visited, and will remember the user's preference on subsequent visits. Internet Explorer will continue to allow Flash with no special permissions required during this time. In mid to lat...

Google has rolled out a new version of its news feed that's based on the user's interests. Google has updated its mobile app with a more personalized news feed and a new button to follow topics from search results. Google introduced a news feed in December which offered a series of cards containing news that reflects previous searches as well as local weather, sports, TV schedules, movies trailers, and other content. Today's  update introduces the "smart feed"  which makes it easier for users to follow topics of interest and discover new content without necessarily typing out a search query. Also, the feed will now be influenced by trending subjects in the user's area and around the world. Google's machine learning algorithms also determine how interested a person is in different topics and adjusts the feed to reflect that. As with the previous version, users are able to customize the feed in settings. Google is also introducing a new "f...

Workday will enter the PaaS game as it hatches plans to open its cloud platform and court developers. Workday plans to open up its platform to developers, partners and third party software vendors. In a blog post , CEO Aneel Bhusri said the move will settle a long-running question for Workday. Bhusri added that Workday chose to focus on reliability and scalability as it built out its cloud service before opening up. Meanwhile, customers have been asking for "a more open Workday platform." These customers "want to use Workday as a cloud backbone that supports cohesive, digital workflows across multiple business applications." With the move, Workday enters the platform-as-a-service game and can better counter rivals. Oracle offers PaaS; SAP Cloud Platform is focused on connecting its apps; Salesforce has its formidable ecosystem; and companies like ServiceNow have opened up to expand into new enterprise areas including human resources. Here's the PaaS la...

PassMark figures reveal a nearly 10-percent rise in AMD's share of CPUs being benchmarked compared to the end of 2016 -- another sign that the chip maker's latest performance PC chips have halted a long slide against its rival. What a difference a year makes when it comes to the fortunes of AMD, the only real rival to Intel in PC processors, but one that was increasingly falling behind the market leader, especially in the profitable and influential high-end segment. An afterthought to performance PC buyers in 2016, AMD is back in the game in 2017 with the release of its warmly received Ryzen chip family, which delivers much of the power of Intel's Core CPUs at a noticeably lower cost. In the few months since the first Ryzen processors have been released, we've witnessed a few signs that AMD has succeeded in not only blunting but also undoing some of Intel's massive sales advantage. Revenue figures for Q1 were stronger thanks to Ryzen, which offset AMD...

Unfortunate timing, but Qantas says Wednesday's outage was not related to the latest global cyber attack. Q antas has been working on restoring its systems following an outage on Wednesday morning that was experienced by "multiple" airlines globally. The issue has been confirmed as one stemming from the airline's third-party booking system, owned by the Amadeus IT Group, headquartered in Europe. Qantas said Amadeus had advised the airline that the intermittent outages experienced by customers were due to a hardware issue. Amadeus also said the issues were unrelated to the ransomware attack that has swept the world. "To be clear, Qantas has not been impacted by the Petya ransomware attack," a statement from Qantas reads. Qantas  took to social media  on Wednesday morning to notify customers that its booking system was down. "We're expecting improvements soon & will update once it's restored," the company wrote in a Tweet...