Microsoft recently announced some support policy changes that bode well for users running Windows 10, but less so for those running the Office productivity suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 02, 2018
The Office codebase is now unified across Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, Microsoft said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2018
Microsoft on Monday began rolling out new collaboration capabilities to users of its Office 365 Teams chat service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2018
Microsoft's Azure public cloud platform is making some inroads against market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to new research.
- By David Ramel
- January 29, 2018
Microsoft is positioning its Azure support services to be more comparable to Amazon Web Services (AWS), lowering plan costs and improving "critical" case response times.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 2018
Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 test build this week that gives users some more insights into, and control over, the kind of privacy-related information that Microsoft collects from their PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2018
Microsoft this week rolled out multiple Office 365 enhancements, including a new Files Restore feature for OneDrive for Business, the company's business-focused cloud storage service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2018
A new video series from Microsoft tries to shed light on how System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) can be used for Windows client management.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2018
Significant datacenter mergers and acquisitions (M&As) closed at a rate of nearly one every week in 2017, according to a recent report by Synergy Research Group.
- By John K. Waters
- January 19, 2018
Intel's efforts to patch its CPUs in the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre security attacks could bog down servers, the company warned recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 18, 2018
Microsoft this week rolled out the latest test-build preview release of Windows Server, known as "build 17074," adding new enhancements to Storage Spaces Direct (SSD).
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 18, 2018
Michael Niehaus, director of product marketing for Microsoft's Windows Commercial group, this week explained Microsoft's communication approach with regard to Windows 10 updates.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 17, 2018
Microsoft recently took the wraps off several enhancements to its SharePoint product, among them the release of the SharePoint Migration Tool.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 17, 2018
Microsoft this week announced an extension of its intellectual property (IP) indemnification program in a bid to cover users of its Azure Stack appliances, in addition to Azure cloud customers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2018
The prognosis is mixed when it comes to the health of the worldwide PC market, which has been mired in a years-long slump.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 15, 2018
The "semiannual channel" version of Windows 10 update 1709, otherwise known as the "Fall Creators Update," is now in the "full availability" stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 12, 2018
The so-called "phablet" form factor is being adopted at a faster rate than medium-sized smartphones, according to mobile analytics company Flurry.
- By David Ramel
- January 11, 2018
Microsoft this week warned users that its fixes for the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre CPU security flaws could slow down their systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 09, 2018
All Intel chips released in the past five years will receive security patches for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities by the end of January.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 09, 2018
Microsoft's Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines (VMs) is now production-ready.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 08, 2018