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
According to a Friday media report, the Microsoft Store for Business, formerly known as the "Windows Store for Business," is on the software deprecation chopping block.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 13, 2020
Microsoft announced some upcoming Office 365 enhancements, many designed to support so-called "firstline workers," at the NRF 2020 event for retailers this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2020
Office 365 tenancies with access to early update releases are beginning to receive an "early preview" of Microsoft's Fluid Framework for Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 09, 2020
Businesses running Microsoft's business software are facing all sorts of end-of-support deadlines at the start of 2020.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 08, 2020
Employment is shifting away from typical IT maintenance support jobs as organizations look more toward carrying out so-called "digital transformation" objectives.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2020
Organizations wanting to participate in a private preview of Project Cortex can now check their qualifications against Microsoft's rather strict participation criteria.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2020
Microsoft CSP MessageOps recently tried to answer some of the most pressing questions facing organizations concerning the Windows 7 Extended Security Updates program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 03, 2020