evilcam writes:Forbes are reporting on a recent Microsoft Blog post, claiming a 775% increase in Cloud Services uptake from regions that are enforcing social distancing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.In addition, there's been a 3x surge in Remote Desktop use and the Number of Teams users has more than doubled to 44 Million since November 2019.How has your use of on-line meetings changed since the pandemic hit?takyon: Apparently Microsoft's Claim of 775 Percent Surge in Cloud Services Wasn't Really Accurate
This story is a merge of 30 story submissions. Given that it was well over 17,000 words of original source material (excluding HTML markup!), a great deal of pruning was performed to get it to a manageable size. I strongly encourage folks to read the linked articles for more information.For latest statistics, and finer granularity, see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.As of 20200330_151936 UTC, it reported these world-wide totals:
canopic jug writes:WordPress, the most common content management system (CMS) on the Web, has about 60% market share. It is even found on nearly a third of all web sites, not just those running a CMS. Given this enormous presence,WordPress has changed the Web quite a bit through its existence. Here are seventeen trivia about WordPress.
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:'A game changer': FDA authorizes Abbott Labs' portable, 5-minute coronavirus test the size of a toaster:
[20200330_130145 UTC: It appears the author's native language is not English; any mistakes seen here were in the original.--martyb]fliptop writes:Will Low-Code and No-Code merge into a single market segment for both enterprise-class and user-friendly developers?
Rich26189 writes:About a year ago, Zachary McCoy took a bike ride around his neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. It may have been forgettable to him, but not to history. Because McCoy used an app to track his mileage, the route was forever etched in the Google-verse and attached to his name.On the day of this ill-fated bike ride, McCoy passed a certain neighbor's house three times. While this normally wouldn't raise alarm, the neighbor happened to be the victim of a burglary that day, and had thousands of dollars worth of jewelry stolen. The Gainesville police had zero leads after a four-day investigation, so they went to the county to get a geofence warrant. Thanks to all the location data McCoy had willingly generated, he became the prime suspect.From hackaday:
[Ed. note: This is the 40,000th story submission to SoylentNews.org (Thanks everyone!) --martyb]DannyB writes:Microsoft Defender for Linux is coming. This is what you need to know: