After staying mostly under the radar since its launch last September, Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service is poised for a significant revamp.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2020
A recent Flexera survey of 750 enterprises and SMBs indicates robust spending on public cloud services, with a strong reliance on multicloud and hybrid cloud approaches.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 28, 2020
Current U.S. unemployment rates are at record highs due to the COVID-19 crisis, but the technology sector remains poised for significant job growth in the coming decade.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2020
Microsoft's roadmap for its various Microsoft 365 products has been updated, indicating several new features are poised to roll out to SharePoint Online tenancies this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 21, 2020
As it promised last November at Ignite, Microsoft has refreshed Yammer, releasing it this week as a new Microsoft Teams app called "Communities."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2020
The first of two Windows 10 feature updates planned for this year is near completion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2020
In response to the "current public health situation," Microsoft is extending the life of many of its key products that were originally slated to reach their support deadlines this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2020
In keeping with Microsoft's plan to rebrand most of its Office 365 products, the company announced this week that Office 365 Groups will eventually become "Microsoft 365 Groups."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2020
As offices shift to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft is giving organizations the ability to gain insights into the productivity of their remote employees.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2020
Employees of Microsoft's brick-and-mortar consumer stores are still supporting customers despite the stores themselves being closed since mid-March as a coronavirus precaution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2020
Microsoft talked up its emerging "knowledge network" technology for Microsoft 365, dubbed Project Cortex, in a Q&A this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2020
Microsoft unveiled a couple of notable capabilities in its latest Windows 10 test build, including a new feature to give users easier access to Linux distro files.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2020
Users of Microsoft 365 Business will be able to access Azure Active Directory Premium P1 licensing free of charge, Microsoft said this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2020
Microsoft is promising to enable new edge computing scenarios for partners and developers with Azure Edge Zones, which became available as a preview this week.
- By David Ramel
- April 02, 2020
In response to concerns about the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Microsoft is transitioning all of its big conferences in 2020 to be online only.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2020
Microsoft is readying two new consumer editions of Microsoft 365 for release in April.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2020
On April 21, Microsoft plans to update many of its Office 365-branded products to bear the "Microsoft 365" brand, the company announced Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2020
Microsoft recently shared some statistics on the growth of its services since widespread "shelter-in-place" mandates due to novel coronavirus concerns have taken effect.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2020
Microsoft has acquired Affirmed Networks, buttressing its software-defined networking services just as mobile operators start rolling out 5G wireless technologies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2020
Multiple SharePoint-related events this year have been cancelled, postponed or made virtual as a consequence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2020