A new Windows 10 Office app is set to arrive for business and consumer users in the next few weeks, according to a Microsoft announcement on Wednesday, effectively "replacing" the current MyOffice app that comes preinstalled on Windows 10 systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 21, 2019
The next Windows 10 feature update release, due this spring, will mark a few changes to Microsoft's Windows servicing lingo and management behavior.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 15, 2019
Windows 10 versions 1803 and 1709 now have support, with some limitations, for Microsoft's MSIX packaging format.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2019
Organizations shouldn't use Internet Explorer as their default browser for every activity, Microsoft argued this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 07, 2019
Monday marked a trio of corporate moves for Microsoft involving Accenture, TomTom and BrightBytes.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 05, 2019
Users of Microsoft 365-licensed products will soon receive a number of security and compliance improvements, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2019
Starting as early as next month, Microsoft plans to change Office 365's default document-saving behavior to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business folder locations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2019
Support for Internet Explorer 10 will expire in 2020 for users of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Microsoft warned this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2019
A new feature in Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service enables organizations to grant outside partners access to their internal network resources.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2019
Microsoft's Office 365 for Mac productivity suite is now available from Apple's Mac App Store.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 28, 2019
Microsoft this week acquired Citus Data, whose flagship offering is an extension that scales out the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system in datacenters.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2019
Skype Room Systems, Microsoft's line of partner-built videoconferencing and meeting room devices, has been renamed "Microsoft Teams Rooms," the company announced Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 23, 2019
Microsoft's Azure DevOps Server 2019 product, which succeeds Team Foundation Server 2018, is now available as Release Candidate 2 (RC2).
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 23, 2019
Microsoft's beleaguered Windows 10 Mobile operating system will lose support on Dec. 10, 2019, the company has announced.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2019
Revenues from IT infrastructure products sold to cloud service providers have surpassed revenues from traditional IT infrastructure sales "for the first time," according to a recently published report by IDC.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2019
Microsoft this week assured organizations that they're not likely to face application compatibility issues if they move to Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 17, 2019
An upcoming change to SharePoint Online will effectively push some organizations away from the earlier "classic" user interface (UI) and toward Microsoft's so-called "modern" UI for Lists and Libraries.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2019
Microsoft's new approach for getting organizations to purchase Azure services appears to put its partners at a disadvantage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 15, 2019
Windows 7 entered its final year of support on Jan. 14, as did Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. The two products are due to fall out of "extended support" on Jan. 14, 2020.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 15, 2019
Microsoft this week described a new "Reserved Storage" feature coming to Windows 10 that will allocate about 7GB of a PC's storage space for OS updates.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 11, 2019