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
Microsoft's Azure Container Service (ACS), which commercially launched more than two years ago, will fall out of support on Jan. 31, 2020, according to a Microsoft post earlier this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2018
Microsoft this week released a new resource to help businesses find and troubleshoot problems on their Microsoft Surface devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2018
As part of an ongoing effort to be more transparent about its monthly Windows update process, Microsoft this week shared its rationale for sometimes releasing Windows updates that don't follow the standard schedule.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2018
Organizations can now sign up to test drive the Microsoft 365 suite via a new "Insider" program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 10, 2018
Microsoft's Edge browser will soon share the same backbone as Google's more dominant Chrome browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2018
Microsoft President Brad Smith recently described the company's progress with its plan to improve broadband Internet access in underserved and rural areas of the United States.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2018
To help organizations that build and maintain distributed applications, Microsoft and Docker this week launched a new specification called Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB).
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 05, 2018