ZDNet

Programming languages: Rust for Windows just got another update

Microsoft has announced the latest version of its Rust for Windows project, version 0.9. Rust for Windows is a language projection for Windows, and lets developers use any Windows API via the windows ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: Our Rust programming language Windows runtime library is now in preview

Microsoft has announced an early public preview of Rust/WinRT, or Rust for the Windows Runtime (WinRT), and has posted it on GitHub. The Rust/WinRT project is a "WinRT language projection" or software ...
Bleeping Computer

MountLocker ransomware uses Windows API to worm through networks

The MountLocker ransomware operation now uses enterprise Windows Active Directory APIs to worm through networks. MountLocker started operating in July 2020 as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) where ...
Hosted on MSN

Microsoft's Next Windows API Change Will Break Some Apps

Microsoft has deprecated the UWP Map control API in Windows. Windows applications using that feature to embed Bing maps will stop receiving updated maps, and they will eventually stop working entirely ...
TweakTown

DirectStorage API Developer Preview now available, works on Windows 10

Microsoft's new DirectStorage API was previously touted as exclusive to Windows 11, but not anymore -- Microsoft has announced that the DirectStorage preview will be compatible with Windows 10 version ...