Microsoft's new Unified Support plan will result in potentially substantial price increases for organizations when it takes effect in about six months, according to a recent report by Gartner Inc.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2017
Recent data from Gartner indicates that worldwide server revenue went up by 16 percent in the third quarter of this year.
- By Becky Nagel
- December 12, 2017
Microsoft added two new virtual machine (VM) families to its lineup of Azure compute options this month: the lower-cost B-Series and the memory-intensive M-Series.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 12, 2017
A new "hybrid modern authentication" capability is now generally available for Skype for Business and Exchange, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2017
Microsoft highlighted its progress on the Kubernetes-on-Azure front this week at the KubeCon event in Austin, Texas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2017
Microsoft this week released a preview of a new Whiteboard app that lets office teams collaborate on a "digital canvas" that displays hand-written notes, images and drawings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2017
Microsoft is offering some help to users of its OneDrive Sync Client in the form of new tutorials.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 06, 2017
Microsoft this week showed how SharePoint site customizations differ between the "modern" SharePoint Framework Extensions (SPFx) approach and the "classic" model.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 05, 2017
The next major version of Microsoft's ERP solution for small and midsized businesses is now generally available.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 04, 2017
Microsoft recently detailed new Office 365 improvements, as well as confirmed that Office Mobile apps will be coming to Google Chromebooks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 04, 2017
The biggest security incident of the year serves as a reminder for organizations to refocus on and prioritize strong network defenses.
- By Chris Paoli
- December 01, 2017
A recent Microsoft Teams update brings new management perks and improvements for end users to the Office 365 collaboration solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Edge browser apps for Android and iOS devices.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 01, 2017
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled some programmatic changes to its partner structure during its AWS re:Invent Global Partner Summit this week in Las Vegas.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 30, 2017
Microsoft and Box hit another milestone in their partnership recently with the availability of the Box collaboration and enterprise content management (ECM) service on Microsoft's Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 29, 2017
In a deal announced this week, Microsoft and SAP said they will work together to optimize SAP's cloud and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for Microsoft's Azure platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2017
Microsoft's announcement this month of a "bare metal" VMware stack that runs on Microsoft Azure hardware appears to have raised VMware's hackles.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2017
In a bid to fill a void in its security portfolio, McAfee on Monday announced its plan to acquire leading cloud access security broker (CASB) Skyhigh Networks for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 27, 2017
A recent talk by independent consultancy Directions on Microsoft gave organizations a look at what to expect from Microsoft's plan to transition its Skype for Business product to the newer Teams client.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 20, 2017
Microsoft's Compliance Manager dashboard tool is now in preview, helping organizations track the regulatory compliance status of the Microsoft solutions running in their environments, as well as in their customers' environments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2017