The company, which said earlier this week that it would also license its Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, will license the SMB file-sharing protocol later this summer, Microsoft spokesman ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 build 25992 for Insiders in the Canary Channel. It includes a number of Server Message Block (SMB) protocol changes, a Snipping Tool update, and more.

SMB was originally developed for Windows OS but a later software implementation called Samba made it possible for SMB to be used on Mac OSs or UNIX. Server message blocks run on top of TCP/IP, via ...