Microsoft launched a private preview of "Project Cortex," touted as a knowledge network for Microsoft 365 users, as part of this week's Ignite conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2019
Microsoft is opening its Microsoft Authenticator service to users of the free Azure AD plan, the company announced at Ignite this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 06, 2019
Microsoft is rebranding its main client management tools, the company announced Monday at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 05, 2019
Azure Arc, a tool that lets organizations manage their data on Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform or any combination thereof, debuted at the 2019 Ignite conference.
- By Becky Nagel
- November 04, 2019
Microsoft released the latest version of its flagship relational database, SQL Server 2019, during its 2019 Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla.
- By Becky Nagel
- November 04, 2019
In response to concerns, Microsoft this week delayed its plans to allow end users to buy Power Platform products outside of IT controls.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2019
Microsoft is priming its Teams collaboration application to adopt some of SharePoint Online's file access and sharing capabilities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2019
The PowerShell 7 scripting language is expected to reach "general availability" commercial release status in January, according to an Oct. 23 Microsoft announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 30, 2019
Microsoft changed group expiration controls for Office 365 so that groups now automatically renew with user activity, according to a Monday announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 29, 2019
Microsoft's top partner executive didn't mince words when it came to telling an audience of partners what the company considers to be its current top channel opportunity.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 27, 2019
Organizations could face costly compliance issues when purchasing Microsoft 365 subscription licenses, according to a recent presentation by Directions on Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2019
Starting in November, Microsoft will allow end users to effectively bypass their IT departments and make direct purchases related to the company's Power Platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 23, 2019
Microsoft and its OEM partners are promising to stop Windows malware at the firmware level with new "Secured-core" PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2019
Microsoft has announced its acquisition of Mover, maker of a platform that assists medium-to-large companies in moving their files to cloud-based services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2019
Oracle co-CEO and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd died last Friday at the age of 62 from unspecified causes.
- By John K. Waters
- October 21, 2019
Microsoft is partnering with SAP, a major player in the enterprise application software space, in an effort to bring more customers to its Azure cloud.
- By David Ramel
- October 21, 2019
An Azure Active Directory outage that lasted for about 2.5 hours was caused by multifactor authentication challenges not working, according to Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2019
Now generally available, Desktop Analytics gives organizations dashboard views of their managed Windows "endpoints, applications and drivers."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2019
Microsoft expanded its IoT lineup this week, announcing the general availability of NXP support in Windows 10 IoT Core and the forthcoming release of SQL Server IoT 2019.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2019
Microsoft will "soon" kick off an effort to help organizations better patch their software, with help from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2019