The new Yammer Conversations Web Part for companywide chats is now generally available for SharePoint Online users, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2020
Microsoft is reportedly working on another virtual desktop infrastructure solution that's separate from its current Windows Virtual Desktop product and similar services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2020
Citrix will use Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud services provider, while Microsoft will promote Citrix Workspace as a "preferred digital workspace solution."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 15, 2020
Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of the Microsoft Secure Score service within the Microsoft 365 Security Center portal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2020
Microsoft Teams is poised to receive a raft of new features in the coming months, many of them designed to make remote videoconferences feel more "natural."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2020
Microsoft this week acquired Orions Systems with plans to bring the firm's AI-powered video analysis solutions to the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 08, 2020
Microsoft is adding more Android expertise to its in-house engineering teams via a deal with Movial, a software engineering and design services company based in Finland.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 08, 2020
The SharePoint "workflows" component stands to lose support this year in SharePoint 2010 Online, and will be deprecated in SharePoint 2013 Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2020
Microsoft on Friday announced a major shift in its retail operations, with plans to close most of its physical Microsoft Store outlets in favor of online sales.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 26, 2020
To facilitate data sharing while still preserving data privacy, Microsoft and Harvard have embarked on a set of open source tool called the "OpenDP Initiative."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2020
Microsoft this week announced its acquisition of Waltham, Mass.-based CyberX for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2020
Microsoft is acquiring ADRM Software Inc. for an undisclosed amount and incorporating the entire team into its Microsoft Azure global engineering business.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2020
Microsoft is not wholly opposed to selling its facial recognition solutions to at least one U.S. federal agency, according to a report from the ACLU.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2020
Microsoft this week announced plans to change some of the nomenclature in its Windows 10 testing and rollout process.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2020
SAS Institute Inc. has chosen Microsoft Azure to be its preferred cloud service provider, expanding the two companies' existing partnership.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2020
Subscribers to Microsoft 365 Personal and Microsoft 365 Family will get access to two new Excel features aimed at helping users keep track of their finances.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 15, 2020
A Gartner report identifies the top partners offering assistance to customers of the industry's biggest cloud computing platforms -- namely Azure, AWS and Google.
- By David Ramel
- June 15, 2020
Microsoft's hardware partners will get new security requirements for Windows Server products, starting in January, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2020
It's possible to test nested virtualization on machines using AMD processors with the latest Windows 10 preview, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2020
This week Microsoft released Host Integration Server 2020, a tool that lets Microsoft solutions communicate with IBM mainframes.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 04, 2020