As telecom companies begin rolling out 5G services, Microsoft is touting its 5G bona fides, namely Azure support for SDN.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2020
In a bid to enhance its mobile endpoint security offerings, Ivanti announced on Monday "definitive agreements" to acquire MobileIron and Pulse Secure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 28, 2020
Microsoft renamed many of its enterprise security solutions at Ignite last week to include the phrase "Microsoft Defender."
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 28, 2020
Microsoft detailed some upcoming advances to SharePoint at Ignite this week, including a new Project Cortex product called "Syntex."
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 23, 2020
Microsoft on Monday announced its intent to acquire games maker ZeniMax, owner of Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5 billion in cash.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 21, 2020
Nvidia has entered into a "definitive agreement" to acquire U.K.-based chip design company Arm Ltd. from the SoftBank Group in a stock-and-cash deal valued at $40 billion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 15, 2020
Oracle's proposal to acquire TikTok's U.S. social media operations emerged victorious over the weekend, putting an end to Microsoft's competing buyout bid.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 14, 2020
A recent "Desktops in the Cloud" podcast chat gives some insight into Microsoft's progress on its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 14, 2020
Microsoft this week announced promotional deals for two of its Teams add-ons -- Audio Conferencing and Advanced Communications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 10, 2020
Microsoft Lists, a new product based on SharePoint Lists, is now generally available through the Microsoft Teams service for both business and government users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 03, 2020
It's now possible for Surface Hub 2S conference-room device users to replace the operating system with Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 02, 2020
Schools and enterprises running Windows 10 version 1803 will continue to receive patches for the operating system until mid-2021, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 26, 2020
Microsoft 365 subscribers recently got access to some AI-powered capabilities -- a transcription capability and an expanded Dictate feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 26, 2020
Aimed at top-tier Microsoft 365 subscribers, the Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office solution became available for public preview this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2020
While not scheduled for release until this fall, the next major update to Windows 10 is available for testing now, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2020
Microsoft has quietly changed the name of its Microsoft Forms Pro survey solution to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2020
Microsoft is promising to communicate better with organizations dealing with Azure service issues, including being more transparent about Azure service outages.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 18, 2020
Microsoft this week announced key dates related to its support for the Internet Explorer 11 browser and the "legacy" (EdgeHTML) version of the Microsoft Edge browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 17, 2020
The Surface Duo, designed as both a phone and a pocket-sized computer for Microsoft 365 and Android applications, will be released on Sept. 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 12, 2020
Microsoft has joined a high-powered group of tech giants in a new industry foundation aimed at improving the security of open source software.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 04, 2020