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
Microsoft has launched a preview of its Office Client Policy Service, a Web portal that lets Office 365 administrators configure many user-based policies for Office 365 ProPlus implementations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 11, 2019
Microsoft this week announced some planned enhancements to its Teams collaboration service that are aimed at supporting "firstline" workers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2019
A few notable changes are on tap for Office 365 business subscribers this year, though they were announced by Microsoft with little fanfare.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 09, 2019
Microsoft is making some minor improvements to its free SharePoint Migration Tool, mostly to its user interface.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 08, 2019
Businesses can now use session ID information in their Exchange Online audit logs, giving them another tool to detect untoward activities.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2019
Office 365 subscribers will soon receive several SharePoint Online improvements, as described by Microsoft recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 04, 2019
A pair of security and compliance offerings under the "Microsoft 365" branding will become available next month, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 02, 2019
Windows 10's convoluted update practices drew a lot of attention this year, but so did many other key Microsoft developments. Below are the most popular news articles of the past year.
- By RCP Staff
- December 20, 2018
From Microsoft's shifting channel program policies to the avalanche of product releases at Ignite, here are the most popular blog posts of the past year.
- By RCP Staff
- December 19, 2018
The tech landscape is evolving, and the channel along with it. Here are the year's best tips from channel experts for Microsoft partners trying to navigate the shifting IT ecosystem.
- By RCP Staff
- December 17, 2018