Organizations managing complex applications in Azure can begin test-driving a new capability that helps alleviate network-latency concerns.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 16, 2019
Microsoft talked up its Teams collaboration service as part of the run-up to Inspire, including its more than "13 million daily active users."
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2019
Microsoft now plans to support the use of Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019, even for organizations using it in VDI scenarios.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 10, 2019
SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 will no longer receive security patches from Microsoft as of Tuesday, July 9.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2019
Organizations can now begin to use to Desktop Analytics to measure the compatibility of their applications with Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2019
Some "pro" features of Microsoft's Kaizala mobile chat application will be folded into Microsoft Teams over the next 12 to 18 months.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 02, 2019
As early as July 9, organizations with existing Office 365 Business or Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions could have the Teams app automatically activated for them.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2019
Organizations narrowly favor Microsoft Azure over rivals Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform for its "compatibility with existing services."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2019
The Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage service has a few new enhancements coming to it, including more storage options and a secure "Personal Vault" feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 26, 2019
The database management system (DBMS) market's growth is increasingly being driven by cloud services, not by more traditional on-premises systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup service can now support SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2019
Microsoft has released Edge previews for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1, which previously didn't support Microsoft browsers beyond Internet Explorer 11.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 21, 2019
With a new service preview, Microsoft is now letting organizations use a private Internet connection to access Azure virtual machines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2019
The May 2019 update of Windows 10, also known as version 1903, will be the last Windows client OS to have support for Windows To Go.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2019
Conceding that it has taken "way too long," Microsoft has announced that Hyper-V Server 2019 is now available for download.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2019
Microsoft's productivity and collaboration plan for businesses with fewer than 300 users is getting two new features: conditional access security and trouble-ticket tools for administrators.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 13, 2019
Microsoft this week announced its "Wave 2" product release plans for its Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning solutions, as well as its Power Platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2019
A recent update to Office 365's Office Customization Tool will let organizations save their configuration files in Microsoft's cloud datacenters to access later.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 06, 2019
Sometime rivals Microsoft and Oracle are expanding their partnership to deliver "cross-cloud" capabilities for larger organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 05, 2019
Microsoft unveiled several Office 365 improvements recently, including a new Windows desktop release, as well as improved setup and branding capabilities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 04, 2019