From Teams to Pluton security chip: here’s what happened at Microsoft in 2020
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From Teams to Pluton security chip: here’s what happened at Microsoft in 2020

The Hindu  

2020 marked the software giant’s Windows operating system’s 35th anniversary. Teams enhancements Microsoft’s video-conferencing and collaboration tool, Teams, received numerous features throughout the year to facilitate working from home. Productivity Score tool criticism Microsoft’s productivity score tool, that it says is designed to “help organisations measure and manage the adoption of Microsoft 365,” was criticised by experts, as it allowed managers to track the activity of individual employees. Hit by cyberattack Recently, Microsoft said it had detected malicious software in its systems linked to the hacking attack on the U.S. government agencies and other companies that used SolarWinds’ network management software – Orion. Pluton security chip In November, Microsoft announced its Pluton chip, designed to improve security in future Windows-based computers by plugging some of the critical security issues that make the systems vulnerable to attacks.

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