Research and consulting firm IDC delivered mixed news for the tablet market on Thursday, scaling back its growth estimates but still forecasting a "modest" increase in shipments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2015
Chipmaker Intel on Thursday warned investors that its first-quarter revenues could be off by about $1 billion due to lower-than-anticipated demand for business desktop PCs.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 13, 2015
It's now possible to use System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager to enforce conditional access policies for mobile devices accessing Exchange Online, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2015
Microsoft and Cisco on Wednesday announced a joint effort aimed at letting Cisco's cloud service provider partners easily access Microsoft Azure cloud computing resources.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2015
Users of Microsoft's Office 2016 application suite for Mac can now add encryption and information rights management protections through the Azure Rights Management Service (RMS), Microsoft announced Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 11, 2015
Microsoft may be considering a change to its Windows 10 preview release schedule that could result in multiple new builds each month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 10, 2015
A deal may be in the works between Microsoft and Samsung aimed at bundling Office 365 apps for Android devices with the Samsung Knox Workspace.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 10, 2015
Microsoft last week began rolling out some management improvements to its Clutter service for Office 365 subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 09, 2015
The latest update to Microsoft Intune will include new capabilities related to mobile device management (MDM).
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2015
Microsoft on Thursday released a preview version of its Office 2016 productivity suite for Macs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2015
Microsoft this week updated its Office "Sway" app to include more privacy options and integration with the Microsoft OneNote note-taking tool.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 04, 2015
Microsoft this week talked up its layered security approach to enterprise mobility, which will eventually include embedding Intune's mobile device management (MDM) capabilities into its Office 365 products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2015
Microsoft appears to have rescinded its policy, established in February, of delivering SharePoint Server updates through the Windows Update service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2015
The next version of Windows Server, code-named "vNext," will include a new "Nano Server" component, according to posts by prolific Internet leaker "Wzor."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2015
There was little in the way of new announcements at Microsoft's Mobile World Congress (MWC) event on Monday, but the company did unveil some new hardware and gave one of the earliest public demos of the Project Spartan browser for phones.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 02, 2015
Google threw its hat into the mobile device management (MDM) ring last week with the launch of its new Android for Work program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2015
Some of Microsoft's productivity services are better at supporting mobile device users than others, according to analyst and consulting firm Gartner this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2015
The worldwide smartphone market continued to be dominated by Google Android in 2014, leaving other platforms -- including Microsoft's Windows Phone -- to fight for scraps.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 24, 2015
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) will be Microsoft's primary solution for on-premises PC management for the "foreseeable future," according to a keynote talk this month by Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of program management for Microsoft's Windows Server and System Center Group.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2015
In a policy change announced Friday, Microsoft is doing away with the 30-day e-mail retention limit within Office 365 and instead allowing organizations to retain deleted e-mails indefinitely.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 20, 2015