In response to customer concerns over government surveillance programs, Microsoft is planning to give cloud customers outside the United States the option to store their data in offshore datacenters.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2014
An update to Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-based device management service will begin rolling out to subscribers sometime next week, Microsoft said Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2014
As part of the terms of its settlement with the British Sky Broadcasting Group over a trademark infringement dispute, Microsoft said on Monday it is finally renaming its SkyDrive cloud storage service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2014
In an effort to match prices set by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft said last week it will lower the cost of Windows Azure storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2014
Microsoft recently added some monitoring improvements, including new alerts, to its cloud-based Windows Azure services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 2014
Microsoft's Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM) disaster recovery service is now generally available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 17, 2014
Microsoft last week released a "limited preview" trial version of a new georedundant option for the Windows Azure Storage service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2013
Few dispute that SharePoint in the cloud is the future. The challenge for partners and customers is determining the best path to get there.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 10, 2013
Microsoft recently beefed up its Windows Azure offerings, making some services generally available and others available as "previews."
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2013
Microsoft's Windows Azure, Office 365 and Outlook.com services suffered outages on Thursday, according to reports.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 22, 2013
Microsoft this month rolled out a slew of new services to Windows Azure as part of an update designed to integrate the cloud platform with Microsoft's latest flagship software offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2013
The outgoing Microsoft CEO gave his "all in" cloud mandate over three years ago, but entrenched players like Amazon Web Services and Google have left Microsoft fighting to secure a foothold for its own cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 16, 2013
Phil Sorgen this week gave an overview of his goals as the new leader of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group (WPG).
- By Gladys Rama
- October 09, 2013
Microsoft is expected to release several no-cost enhancements to Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) by year's end.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 07, 2013
Microsoft on Thursday launched its Windows Azure-based multi-factor authentication product, previously code-named "Active Authentication" in its preview phase.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2013
The keynote talk from Microsoft's Brad Anderson on Tuesday detailed the fruits of a partnership inked just this summer between the two software giants.
- By John K. Waters
- September 25, 2013
How one small Microsoft partner in the U.K. leveraged the Windows Azure cloud service to win a huge contract against consortiums of IT giants -- enabling a more robust solution at a lower cost than traditional IT approaches could promise.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 25, 2013
The recent revelations about the depth of the NSA's surveillance program are dragging old questions about cloud privacy back to the forefront.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 17, 2013
Microsoft on Monday joined Google, Facebook and Yahoo in filing amended motions to disclose more details about customer data access requests from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 10, 2013
Microsoft on Tuesday launched a preview of a new distributed cache service for Windows Azure-hosted applications as part of a set of improvements to the cloud platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 06, 2013