System Center 2019, the latest generation of Microsoft's suite of management tools, is poised to hit the "general availability" stage sometime in March.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 08, 2019
A recently published Forrester survey commissioned by Microsoft details the many ways that organizations are failing to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in mid-2018.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 07, 2019
Microsoft described a new mechanism this week called "Guardian Modules" that enables the use of microcontroller units to secure connections for older Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2019
Azure DevOps Server 2019, Microsoft's rebranded successor to Team Foundation Server 2018, became generally available on Tuesday after being at the Release Candidate 2 test stage since January.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2019
Starting April 1, organizations can purchase Microsoft's Windows 7 Extended Security Updates plan to extend the life of their Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) implementations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2019
At the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg this week, Microsoft announced that it was developing another Internet of Things (IoT) solution called Windows Server IoT 2019.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 28, 2019
SharePoint Online users will soon be able to take advantage of new page enhancements, giving them greater control over a page's title and description.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 27, 2019
Microsoft this week unveiled the next-generation HoloLens headset and its accompanying Azure Kinect camera, as well as various partner efforts around mixed reality.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2019
Microsoft on Friday announced the "general availability" of Windows Defender ATP support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2019
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