A deal between Microsoft and Beijing-based ByteDance is in the works that would have Microsoft acquiring some of ByteDance's holdings in the TikTok social media service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2020
Microsoft may be promoting Cortana more as a Microsoft 365 business perk, but the digital assistant will soon see several of its capabilities falling out of support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2020
Tasks in Teams, which pulls together information from Microsoft task-creation apps like Planner and To Do, has started rolling out to "a small group" of Microsoft 365 users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 30, 2020
Microsoft this week announced the general availability of two new capabilities in its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2020
Organizations will soon be able to keep their Microsoft Teams Rooms products patched and trouble-free via new Standard and Premium subscription options.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2020
Microsoft is talking up a "low-code data platform" called Microsoft Dataflex that promises to deliver native integration between Teams and Microsoft Power Platform tools.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2020
Microsoft is readying some new policy enhancements to its Insider Risk Management service for Microsoft 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 24, 2020
A revamped Azure Stack HCI product that runs its own operating system, known as "version 20H2," is now available as a preview release.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2020
Microsoft announced the public preview of its Universal Print service for Microsoft 365 subscribers on Tuesday, the start of this year's Inspire partner conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2020
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