Microsoft recently announced a few planned design changes, including a new Azure icon.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - May 07, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is escalating its effort to ensure that its cloud services can fully meet the European Union's data storage requirements by the end of 2022. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - May 06, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has acquired Kinvolk, a Berlin-based maker of open source Kubernetes solutions and tools, for an undisclosed amount.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - April 29, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A preview of a 64-bit OneDrive client for x64 Windows 10 systems is now available for work, school or home users.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - April 15, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently announced the general availability of a "staged rollout" feature in Azure Active Directory designed for organizations with "hybrid" environments.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - April 12, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has launched its first Azure Orbital "ground station as a service" units, the company announced this week, starting with its own datacenter in Quincy, Wash.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - April 07, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations can now keep tabs on their Windows Virtual Desktop environments with Azure Monitor.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - April 05, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has released a "preliminary root cause analysis" for Monday's Azure AD issue that took out multiple Microsoft 365 and cloud applications for at least two hours. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 16, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new External Identities capability in the Azure Active Directory service became generally available (GA) this week. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 12, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Today's cloud landscape leans heavily in the direction of multicloud and hybrid, with Amazon Web Services holding an ever-shrinking lead over Microsoft Azure.
                    
			            - By David  Ramel
 - March 11, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Ignite virtual conference put much of the spotlight on Microsoft Mesh, a new Azure-based platform for building "cross-platform mixed reality apps." 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - March 02, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently announced an upcoming increase in the Azure Active Directory B2C service-level agreement (SLA). 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 25, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is adding three more industry-specific cloud programs to its offerings with help from its partners.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 24, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will bring Microsoft Azure to the International Space Station (ISS) by way of HPE's Spaceborne Computer-2. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 16, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cloud spending has been on a tear, due in no small part to cloud giants Microsoft and AWS increasing their investments in respective partner programs. 
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
 - February 10, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week described a standardized approach for configuring and managing Windows 10 PCs called "Windows 10 in cloud configuration."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - February 03, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and SAP this week announced plans to integrate Microsoft Teams with SAP solutions, a notable expansion of their existing collaboration around Microsoft Azure. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - January 22, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Starting April 1, Microsoft plans to increase its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure Active Directory to "four nines" of uptime -- or 99.99 percent -- each month.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - January 05, 2021
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Azure Stack HCI is now generally available from Microsoft, in conjunction with its hardware partners.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - December 14, 2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Azure Digital Twins service for modeling physical environments is now generally available over two years after being released as a preview. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - December 09, 2020