A new service from Microsoft partner Skytap aims to smooth the way for organizations to move on-premises applications based on IBM Power processors to Microsoft Azure datacenters.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 27, 2020
Mover, Microsoft's free cloud-to-cloud migration tool, is "now available to Microsoft 365 customers worldwide," Microsoft announced earlier this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2020
Microsoft's Azure Sphere security solution for Internet of Things (IoT) devices became generally available on Monday, roughly two years after it was first introduced.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2020
Google last week announced the general availability of its Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory product after being in development for about two years.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2020
A consortium of companies has purchased Dell's RSA security solutions businesses, including the RSA Conference, in an all-cash deal valued at $2 billion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 21, 2020
Ahead of this year's RSA Conference, Microsoft has announced the general availability of multiple security solutions, partner collaborations and product enhancements.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 21, 2020
Microsoft's new Office App for iOS and Android phones is now generally available worldwide, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 2020
Microsoft recently announced a raft of Office 365 improvements, including a much-expanded Fluid Framework preview program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 13, 2020
In response to "your feedback," Microsoft has changed course from its plan to deliver an extension to Office 365 ProPlus users that would switch their browser search engines to Bing.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2020
An upcoming preview release of Microsoft Secure Score promises to bring changes to the security assessment product that will make it more meaningful for organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 10, 2020
A new report from the NSA identifies what the agency considers the top cloud security issue plaguing organizations: misconfigured privacy settings.
- By David Ramel
- February 06, 2020
Microsoft's Backup Explorer tool for Azure, which is designed to monitor backups across an organization's "estate," is now available as a preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 05, 2020
Originally planned for release this year, Microsoft's Surface Hub 2X conferencing devices may be on an indefinite hold, according to a report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 31, 2020
Support for the Internet Explorer 10 browser on both Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard is poised to end on Feb. 11, 2020.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2020
An industry group is urging Microsoft to release its proprietary Windows 7 code as free software.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2020
Microsoft warned users that their customer support case information may have been exposed at the end of 2019 due to security misconfigurations in an Azure-hosted database.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2020
For organizations that still haven't transitioned away from Windows Server 2008, which lost support on Jan. 14, Microsoft is extending some help.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 20, 2020
Microsoft is aiming to become "carbon negative" by 2030 thanks to a companywide carbon-reduction initiative it announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2020
The first "stable" release of Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser is now commercially available, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2020
The 10-year-old Windows 7 operating system fell out of support this week on Jan. 14, 2020, marking the end of an era.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 14, 2020